On Jan 12, 7:47 am, Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Landon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I was wondering if anyone had any opinions on what other titles I > > could look into since this one seems from a glance at reviews to be > > teaching mainly through game programming (a topic I'm not too > > interested in) or if this one is a quality book by itself. > > The book "Learning Python" is currently proving very useful to an > associate of mine. I'm watching his knowledge of Python grow > substantially every week, from what was an essentially zero start. > > Learning Python, 3rd Edition > Mark Lutz > O'Reilly > <URL:http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596513986/> > > Looking through the text, it is very well structured, thoroughly > teaching all the fundamentals of the language and types and idioms > while referring back to already-learned material. The author makes a > living training people in Python, and the third edition has benefited > from his many years of experience finding effective ways to teach the > language. > > -- > \ "If you ever teach a yodeling class, probably the hardest thing | > `\ is to keep the students from just trying to yodel right off. | > _o__) You see, we build to that." -- Jack Handey | > Ben Finney
I would recommend Lutz's other book, the wonderful Python tome "Programming Python 3rd Ed." as well. It's good for getting into the deepest part of Python's jungle. Mike -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
