Re: Book Recomendations

2008-03-03 Thread apatheticagnostic
On Mar 2, 6:16 am, David Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2008-03-02, Jeff Schwab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Python In A Nutshell: > >http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pythonian2/ > > Another vote for the Nutshell book, which I find a very useful and practical > book. > > I never found the "

Re: Book Recomendations

2008-03-03 Thread rockingred
The "Python Forum" has a good set of selections in their "General Forum" section: http://python-forum.org/pythonforum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=12&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&sid=9b04b79b60f9afb56e4237856910d354&start=20 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Book Recomendations

2008-03-02 Thread David Lees
Ira Solomon wrote: > I am an experienced programmer (40 years). I've done Algol (if you've > heard of that you must be old too), PL/1, VB,VBA, a little C, and a > few other odd languages (e.g. Taskmate). > I'm interested in learning Python and have downloaded a slew of books. > Too many. > I'd lik

Re: Book Recomendations

2008-03-02 Thread Micah Cowan
Tommy Nordgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 2 mar 2008, at 01.56, Ira Solomon wrote: > >> I am an experienced programmer (40 years). I've done Algol (if you've >> heard of that you must be old too), PL/1, VB,VBA, a little C, and a >> few other odd languages (e.g. Taskmate). >> I'm interested

Re: Book Recomendations

2008-03-02 Thread Jeff Schwab
> Ira Solomon wrote: >> I am an experienced programmer (40 years) . . . >> I'm interested in learning Python > js wrote: >> I wonder why nobody mension Python Cookbook yet . . . >> and Python Standard Library Because cookbooks are not supposed to be language introductions. They are collec

Re: Book Recomendations

2008-03-02 Thread James Matthews
I liked Core Python Programming 2nd edition! On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 4:27 PM, Ken Dere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ira Solomon wrote: > > > I am an experienced programmer (40 years). I've done Algol (if you've > > heard of that you must be old too), PL/1, VB,VBA, a little C, and a > > few other

Re: Book Recomendations

2008-03-02 Thread Ken Dere
Ira Solomon wrote: > I am an experienced programmer (40 years). I've done Algol (if you've > heard of that you must be old too), PL/1, VB,VBA, a little C, and a > few other odd languages (e.g. Taskmate). > I'm interested in learning Python and have downloaded a slew of books. > Too many. > I'd li

Re: Book Recomendations

2008-03-02 Thread Tommy Nordgren
On 2 mar 2008, at 01.56, Ira Solomon wrote: > I am an experienced programmer (40 years). I've done Algol (if you've > heard of that you must be old too), PL/1, VB,VBA, a little C, and a > few other odd languages (e.g. Taskmate). > I'm interested in learning Python and have downloaded a slew of b

Re: Book Recomendations

2008-03-02 Thread David Cook
On 2008-03-02, Jeff Schwab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Python In A Nutshell: > http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pythonian2/ Another vote for the Nutshell book, which I find a very useful and practical book. I never found the "Dive in" book useful. Dave Cook -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/l

Re: Book Recomendations

2008-03-01 Thread js
I wonder why nobody mension Python Cookbook yet. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pythoncook2/ Web version: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/ and Python Standard Library http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pythonsl/ http://effbot.org/zone/librarybook-index.htm On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 4:09

Re: Book Recomendations

2008-03-01 Thread Paddy
On Mar 2, 12:56 am, Ira Solomon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am an experienced programmer (40 years). I've done Algol (if you've > heard of that you must be old too), PL/1, VB,VBA, a little C, and a > few other odd languages (e.g. Taskmate). > I'm interested in learning Python and have downloade

Re: Book Recomendations

2008-03-01 Thread subeen
On Mar 2, 6:56 am, Ira Solomon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am an experienced programmer (40 years). I've done Algol (if you've > heard of that you must be old too), PL/1, VB,VBA, a little C, and a > few other odd languages (e.g. Taskmate). > I'm interested in learning Python and have downloaded

Re: Book Recomendations

2008-03-01 Thread Jeff Schwab
Ira Solomon wrote: > I am an experienced programmer (40 years). I've done Algol (if you've > heard of that you must be old too), PL/1, VB,VBA, a little C, and a > few other odd languages (e.g. Taskmate). > I'm interested in learning Python and have downloaded a slew of books. > Too many. > I'd lik

Re: Book Recomendations

2008-03-01 Thread Micah Cowan
Ira Solomon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am an experienced programmer (40 years). I've done Algol (if you've > heard of that you must be old too), PL/1, VB,VBA, a little C, and a > few other odd languages (e.g. Taskmate). > I'm interested in learning Python and have downloaded a slew of books.

Re: Book Recomendations

2008-03-01 Thread Ryan M.
On Mar 1, 7:56 pm, Ira Solomon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am an experienced programmer (40 years).  I've done Algol (if you've > heard of that you must be old too), PL/1, VB,VBA, a little C, and a > few other odd languages (e.g. Taskmate). > I'm interested in learning Python and have downloaded

Re: Book Recomendations

2008-03-01 Thread Tro
On Saturday 01 March 2008, Ira Solomon wrote: > I am an experienced programmer (40 years). I've done Algol (if you've > heard of that you must be old too), PL/1, VB,VBA, a little C, and a > few other odd languages (e.g. Taskmate). > I'm interested in learning Python and have downloaded a slew of b

Book Recomendations

2008-03-01 Thread Ira Solomon
I am an experienced programmer (40 years). I've done Algol (if you've heard of that you must be old too), PL/1, VB,VBA, a little C, and a few other odd languages (e.g. Taskmate). I'm interested in learning Python and have downloaded a slew of books. Too many. I'd like a recommendation as to which