Re: ** Please Rank These Learning Sources **

2013-02-21 Thread Philipp Hagemeister
> http://learnpythonthehardway.org/book/ I have never used that myself, but I have seeen plenty of stackoverflow and student questions about it. In short, it's horrible. The book mostly consists of basic Python programs, and beginners often fail to grasp even the most basic structures demonstrated

Re: ** Please Rank These Learning Sources **

2013-02-21 Thread Mark Janssen
Sorry, I gave you the wrong book (a different Lutz book). The correct title is _Programming Python_, by Mark Lutz. It's like 1600 pages and is application focused. Cheers! mark -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: ** Please Rank These Learning Sources **

2013-02-21 Thread Mark Janssen
On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 2:08 AM, Claira wrote: > The problem: I've done reading (like on quora), and it seems lots of > beginners (and I know first-hand for me), and even for those that have done > 4 years at university -- that they say they don't know how to build > something after all the theory

** Please Rank These Learning Sources **

2013-02-21 Thread Claira
The problem: I've done reading (like on quora), and it seems lots of beginners (and I know first-hand for me), and even for those that have done 4 years at university -- that they say they don't know how to build something after all the theory and stuff. Even though I'm not going to be a programmer