Re: What Python books to you recommend to beginners?

2018-11-28 Thread Santiago Basulto
Python for Data Analysis is a great choice for sure. I think Think Python , by Allen Downey is also a great alternative for beginners. I've written a short piece with 3 free books to get started: https://blog.rmotr.com/the-3-python-books-you-nee

Re: What Python books to you recommend to beginners?

2018-11-28 Thread Brian Oney via Python-list
On Wed, 2018-11-28 at 08:44 -0600, Skip Montanaro wrote: > What do people recommend? The target is Python 3.6 and 3.7. The > audience at work is a mostly financial/statistical crowd, so exposure > to things like Pandas would be nice, though I'm sure there are > dedicated books for just that. Given

What Python books to you recommend to beginners?

2018-11-28 Thread Skip Montanaro
I've been using Python since long before Mark Lutz's book was first released, so I've never paid much attention to what's out there. Still, every now and then, someone asks me for a recommendation (as just happened a few minutes ago). "Learning Python" was last released in 2013 (Python 3.3), so lac