Re: Best way to start

2009-04-09 Thread Ken Dere
Avi wrote: > Hi, > > What is a good way to learn Python? > > Do you recommend going by a book (suggestions welcome) or learning > with tutorials? Both? > > Thanks in advance, > Avi A good book is Learning Python by Lutz (O'Reilly) Then, you need to do some actual programming. The best way is

Re: Best way to start

2009-04-07 Thread Tairic
I was looking for a language that seemed easier to learn and that was powerful, so I just started learning Python myself. I'm using some online tutorials and The book "Python Power!" by Matt Telles. Some of the O'Reilley books looked ok (I spent a while in the bookstore deciding), but this one was

Re: Best way to start

2009-04-06 Thread namekuseijin
Google's automatic chat logging is nice too. My first online python tutorial for someone who never saw it before (sorry for not being in english): 14/09/08 00:50 KALEL: I'm on Phyton Shell 00:52 me: cool let's go type it: 2 just to get rid of your fears... :) KALEL: Hah hah hah hah me:

Re: Best way to start

2009-04-06 Thread namekuseijin
Avi escreveu: A BIG Thanks to Chris and Andrew for suggestions. This is an awesome place. namekuseijin: haha...got a friend hooked to Python on chat? hilarious! True story. But he was already a programmer. Only Pascal Delphi though. -- a game sig: http://tinyurl.com/d3rxz9 -- http://mail.p

Re: Best way to start

2009-04-06 Thread Avi
A BIG Thanks to Chris and Andrew for suggestions. This is an awesome place. namekuseijin: haha...got a friend hooked to Python on chat? hilarious! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Best way to start

2009-04-06 Thread namekuseijin
I was able to get a friend into Python over a Google Chat. I pointed him to the downloads page, waited for him to install, then covered the basics in quite a few steps (syntax, conditionals, loops, function definition and application, classes and methods, lists, dicts and comprehensions). He

Re: Best way to start

2009-04-06 Thread Tim Shannon
I personally learned a lot from www.diveintopython.org On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Avi wrote: > Hi, > > What is a good way to learn Python? > > Do you recommend going by a book (suggestions welcome) or learning > with tutorials? Both? > > Thanks in advance, > Avi > -- > http://mail.python.or

Re: Best way to start

2009-04-06 Thread andrew cooke
Avi wrote: > What is a good way to learn Python? > > Do you recommend going by a book (suggestions welcome) or learning > with tutorials? Both? how do you like to learn and how much experience do you have programming in other languages? andrew -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-l

Re: Best way to start

2009-04-06 Thread Chris Rebert
On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Avi wrote: > Hi, > > What is a good way to learn Python? > > Do you recommend going by a book (suggestions welcome) or learning > with tutorials? Both? The official Python tutorial is pretty darn good: http://docs.python.org/tutorial/ If you want a book as well, I

Best way to start

2009-04-06 Thread Avi
Hi, What is a good way to learn Python? Do you recommend going by a book (suggestions welcome) or learning with tutorials? Both? Thanks in advance, Avi -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list