In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 7stud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I am of the opposite opinion: I recommend that people get any book but >"Beginning Python: Novice to Professional". In my opinion, that book >is horribly written, the examples are terrible, some subjects are only >covered in passing so the info is too parse to be of any use, and >there are no problems at the end of the chapters to work on. I think >a beginner might be fooled into thinking Beginning Python is a good >book because they won't know how many holes their knowledge of python >is riddled with, and since there are no problems to work on, they may >not even realize how little they learned. I think an experienced >programmer would spot all the blunders in the book straight away.
I'm curious, have you tried _Python for Dummies_? I don't want to be shilling my own book -- but I'd also like to know how it stacks up. -- 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
