Hello Doug - My very first document I read - before I took an online
course - was "A Quick, Painless Tutorial on the Python Language" by Norman
Matloff from UC Davis. My copy is dated May 1, 2009 but I think he has
updated it -- looks like May 2010. Here is the link, you may also want to
query for other links like this for Matloff because I saw a few others while
looking this up for you. It is free.
http://html-pdf-converter.com/pdf/a-quick-painless-tutorial-on-the-python-language.html
I also liked Alan Gauld's tutorial and the videos made by Google - taught by
Nick Parlante - Here is the link:
http://code.google.com/edu/languages/google-python-class/
I was not really happy with the actual course I took. You can contact me
offline about this.
Regards,
Patty
----- Original Message -----
From: "Doug Marvel" <smokeinourlig...@gmail.com>
To: <alan.ga...@btinternet.com>; <tutor@python.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2011 7:28 AM
Subject: Re: [Tutor] print "Hello, World!"
Holy wow! I'm going to go through all of these and see what sort of
understanding I can absorb. I'm super excited that a helpful community
exists for this, but I'm more excited to start learning. So I'm going
to go do that now. I'm starting with Alan Gauld's tutorial, but like I
said, I'm going to check out all of them, until I build some
confidence. So far, this one seems to run at my speed. I'll be back,
for certain. It took me twenty minutes to figure out how to get the
">>>" to come up in DOS after typing 'python'. hahaha
It's good to meet all of you, and thanks again.
Doug
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 6:07 AM, Alan Gauld <alan.ga...@btinternet.com>
wrote:
"michael scott" <jigenbak...@yahoo.com> wrote
already been asked, learn from others who asked before you :) Oh yea, I
once
read that there are no intermediate tutorials in any programming
language,
because once you get past the basics, you only need to reference the
"documentation" that comes with the language.
Thats very nearly true. There are intermediate level tutorials for a few
languages but more generally you get subject specific tutorials on
things like parsing, web programming, GUI programming, databases,
networking, stats and scientific programming etc etc.
So there are usually intermediate level tutorials to suit they are rarely
full language tutorials.
I try to cover that off with the advanced topics and "Python in practice"
topics at the end of my tutorial. But again they are focused on specific
topic areas (OS, database, networks, web).
--
Alan Gauld
Author of the Learn to Program web site
http://www.alan-g.me.uk/
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