In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, kaens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On 30 May 2007 17:28:39 -0700, Aahz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >> kaens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>>I would also recommend to stay away from any "for dummies" or "in x >>>(hours/days)" books. They can be decent introductory material, but >>>unless you are really really new to programming, you probably wouldn't >>>be getting enough information to justify the cost of the book (and a >>>lot of times they have a lot of bad practices in them) >> >> Maybe you should try actually reading _Python for Dummies_. ;-) > >I haven't read it, maybe I will. I have just noticed that the "for >dummies" books tend to be a bit lacking.
Some are; some aren't. Like any broad and rapid-to-market series, there are plenty of books that are pretty bad. But there are also plenty of good Dummies books -- for example, _Personal Finance for Dummies_. Speaking as the co-author of _Python for Dummies_, one of our goals was to write a book that was both different from the other introductory Python books and managed to match the quality of the best of them. I'm not sure we succeeded in the second part, but I do think we did better than the median, if only because between me and David Goodger (our tech editor), we probably made fewer technical mistakes. ;-) -- Aahz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "as long as we like the same operating system, things are cool." --piranha -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
