On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 7:47 AM, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: > On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 07:37:12 pm Jeremy Jones wrote: > >> "Head First Programming: A Learner's Guide to Programming Using the >> Python Language" by David Griffiths and Paul Barry was a great read. >> It's unconventional (by their nature, all Head First books are), > > > I've never heard of "Head First Programming" -- how are they > unconventional? >
Both HF Programming (currently out) and HF Python (currently being written) are very example-driven and in the course of each example, introduce a number of concepts. So, rather than having a chapter on lists, the books introduce lists as a part of an evolving example. The "conventional" approach (in my view) is splitting a book into chapters of such topics as variables, operators, lists, dicts, OO, etc. So, I hope that I conveyed the "unconventional" as a good thing, because I definitely see it as such. I love these books. Honestly, it's enjoyable to me just to see the craft these folks use to evolve a problem and weave in new concepts all along the way. > > > -- > Steven D'Aprano > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - tu...@python.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
