One of my younger brothers, still school age, is to be studying some aspect of computing for the next term or two. I strongly recommended he learn Python (it has a bit more future than studying the internals of OS/2), and my/his father then asked me what book I'd recommend him to study through. I know this has come up a few times, but searching back in my emails didn't give a clear answer.
Whether it's an ebook or in paper doesn't matter, but there need to be exercises that the student can perform on his own, and then an external tutor (aka my dad) then check up on. Python 3 is a must; preferably something designed for 3.3+ as that's what he'll be using. Beyond that, I was just asked to recommend "the best", which is unfortunately vague... but I gather they'll be deferring to the expertise of the list in figuring out what that means :) So, within those not-very-many restrictions, what would you all recommend? Let's get a nice discussion going and see where it leads us (most likely to a resident troll ranting about a favorite topic, but hey, maybe Dihedral will come out with some nugget of wisdom for us)! Chris Angelico -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
