On 2/16/2025 4:00 PM, Jan Erik Moström via Python-list wrote:
On 16 Feb 2025, at 20:59, dn via Python-list wrote:
When stop to think about it, this is quite a request:
don't give me what I do know,
do give me what I don't know!
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That said, you are correct: the bulk of new publications seem to (still) aim at
the Beginner end of the continuum (see later comments).
Yep, I threw away several beginners books in Python last week (they were a bit
dated).
My work used to be (and still is, to a small degree) to teach programming to
novice students. So, I feel I can skip the basics and go on to the
intermediate/advanced stuff.
Over the period mentioned, Python has changed a great deal - Python 3 (largely)
replacing Python 2 was only the most-notable!
Yep, that shift was interesting when teaching novices Python!!
Books published in 2024 (which I may not have read from cover to cover - yet):
Effective Python: 125 Specific Ways to
Write Better Python, 3rd Edition
Brett Slatkin
Addison Wesley
Hypermodern Python Tooling
Building Reliable Workflows for an Evolving Python Ecosystem
Claudio Jolowicz
O'Reilly
Powerful Python
Aaron Maxwell
O'Reilly
- starts with generators (which you likely haven't met before)
I have done so ... to be really honest, it was when I couldn't remember how to
create an iterator for a class I was writing, that I realized that I needed a
refresher.
it's a tremendous challenge to write a book (also involving considerable time
and effort) which will return value for more than a few years - particularly at
the advanced levels!
True, I'm quite amazed that people write books since it takes such an effort
with little, my guess, reward for doing it
An alternative-approach which may take your fancy, is online courses (many of
which can be taken for $free). Their self-paced nature has the advantage of
enabling the skipping-over of repetitive content (and the repeating of points
which don't immediately 'sink in'). You will find many examples on Coursera*
and edX*.
My plan is to find one or two books that seem suitable, when I've looked at
those then I'm going online for the rest.
Thanks for the suggestions: I think I now have 2-3 books that I should look
into in more detail.
I don't have a book for them but I think you should look into the
(relatively new) type annotation system, as well as asynchronized
programming. The latter is especially of interest because the older
techniques have been removed and replaced with a different approach
(asyncio having replaced asyncore). Both of these will probably be new
to you, and both are important to know about.
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