Re: Book recommendation? For getting up to date
Jan Erik Moström writes: > On 16 Feb 2025, at 20:47, rbowman via Python-list wrote: > >> David Beasley's 'Python Distilled'. The author doesn't enumerate Python 3 >> features specifically but as the title suggests hits the important >> concepts. > > Thanks, I'll take a look I can reinforce this recommendation. I haven't read the entire book, but I'm reading it slowly. The beauty of this book is that it's very concise without being just a reference. Since you're familiar with Python already, this is likely a good match to you. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Book recommendation? For getting up to date (Posting On Python-List Prohibited)
Lawrence D'Oliveiro writes: > On Wed, 19 Feb 2025 22:42:23 -0500, songbird wrote: > >> no need for me to print any programming books. > > I gave up on paper-based programming documentation a long time ago. There > is way too much of it that I need, and it changes too fast. So I keep it > all online now. It's much more pleasurable (to me) to read books off-screen. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Book recommendation? For getting up to date (Posting On Python-List Prohibited)
rbowman writes: > On Thu, 20 Feb 2025 21:51:51 - (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > >> On Thu, 20 Feb 2025 10:05:32 -0300, Salvador Mirzo wrote: >> >>> It's much more pleasurable (to me) to read books off-screen. >> >> You can’t do searches, though. > > For non-fiction a decent index does wonders. A good layout and talble of > contents also helps. Decorators? Chapter 14, page 254, all you ever wanted > to know about them. Well said. But I still like the full-text search because very often I want to cite a book and I remember the wording more or less, so I'm looking for that exact point, which is easiest found by a full-text search. It's bloody useful to have an ebook form of the book. It's just not pleasant to read it. I like to sort of lay back to read a book and I can't quite do that on a desk. I don't use computers off of desks. I don't care for phones or tablets. Phones have a too small screen and tablets are too big, too warm, don't bend like paper and are just plain annoying, too. :) Paper is so much more concrete than a screen. No need to recharge them and so on. Omg, I didn't know there were so many reasons... Funny is that the only real reason I really have for no reading on-screen is that I just don't want to. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Book recommendation? For getting up to date (Posting On Python-List Prohibited)
Lawrence D'Oliveiro writes: > On Thu, 20 Feb 2025 10:05:32 -0300, Salvador Mirzo wrote: > >> It's much more pleasurable (to me) to read books off-screen. > > You can’t do searches, though. That's quite right, which is why I also love to have an ebook form of them. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
