On Sat, 12 Jan 2008 01:03:42 -0600, Landon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.
I like Alex Martelli's book, published by O'Reilly a few years ago (I forget its name). It is not too thick -- books which are too thick to stay open are useless IMHO -- and it's not a beginner programmer's book. (You'll have a text book, so it will teach programming in general and simple Python programming, right?) /Jorgen -- // Jorgen Grahn <grahn@ Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu \X/ snipabacken.se> R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
