On Thu, 2010-01-07, Peter wrote: > [...] depending on your > application domain, I liked: > > 1) Hans Petter Langtangen: Python Scripting for Computational Science > A truly excellent book, not only with respect to Python Scripting , but > also on how to avoid paying license fees by using opensource tools as > an engineer ( plotting, graphing, gui dev etc ). Very good , pratical > introduction to Python with careful and non-trivial examples and exercises.
Sounds good. Regarding the book's title: is it just me, or are Python programmers in general put off when people call it "scripting"? I won't attempt a strict definition of the term "scripting language", but it seems like non-programmers use it to mean "less scary than what you might think of as programming", while programmers interpret it as "not useful as a general-purpose language". /Jorgen -- // Jorgen Grahn <grahn@ Oo o. . . \X/ snipabacken.se> O o . -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
