At 11:03 PM 1/11/2008, Landon wrote: >Hi, I'm a freshman in college and I'm going to be taking an intro to >programming course next semester which mainly uses Python, so I >thought it might be a good time to pick up Python beyond the scope of >the class as well. The text book for this class is Python for the >Absolute Beginner or something similar to that name. > >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.
Yes, it's a quality book, IMO. I hope by now you've gotten over your dislike for online tutorials. Please take a look at these 3: Hands-On Python <http://www.cs.luc.edu/~anh/python/hands-on/> How to Think Like a (Python) Programmer <http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkpython/> Alan Gauld's Learning to Program (heavy emphasis on Python) <http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld> Also, do take advantage of the VERY helpful Tutor mailing list. <http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor>. Dick Moores >-- >http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
