Re: Great Python books for the beginner

2008-01-17 Thread Jorgen Grahn
On Sat, 12 Jan 2008 01:03:42 -0600, Landon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, I'm a freshman in college and I'm going to be taking an intro to > programming course next semester which mainly uses Python, so I > thought it might be a good time to pick up Python beyond the scope of > the class as well.

Re: Great Python books for the beginner

2008-01-17 Thread Jorgen Grahn
On Sat, 12 Jan 2008 13:12:19 -0800 (PST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 12 jan, 21:04, Landon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> One thing I wonder about is the examples these books use to teach the >> concepts. I found myself really attached to K&R because the end of >> section pro

Re: Great Python books for the beginner

2008-01-13 Thread MooJoo
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GeneralCody <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2008-01-12 08:03:42 +0100, Landon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > Hi, I'm a freshman in college and I'm going to be taking an intro to > > programming course next semester which mainly uses Python, so I > > thought it mi

Re: Great Python books for the beginner

2008-01-13 Thread Graeme Glass
On Jan 12, 9:03 am, Landon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, I'm a freshman in college and I'm going to be taking an intro to > programming course next semester which mainly uses Python, so I > thought it might be a good time to pick up Python beyond the scope of > the class as well. The text book f

Re: Great Python books for the beginner

2008-01-12 Thread Dick Moores
At 11:03 PM 1/11/2008, Landon wrote: >Hi, I'm a freshman in college and I'm going to be taking an intro to >programming course next semester which mainly uses Python, so I >thought it might be a good time to pick up Python beyond the scope of >the class as well. The text book for this class is Pyth

Re: Great Python books for the beginner

2008-01-12 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 12 jan, 21:04, Landon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One thing I wonder about is the examples these books use to teach the > concepts. I found myself really attached to K&R because the end of > section projects were utilities that I would find be able to find > useful in day to day work such as a

Re: Great Python books for the beginner

2008-01-12 Thread André
On Jan 12, 4:04 pm, Landon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One thing I wonder about is the examples these books use to teach the > concepts. I found myself really attached to K&R because the end of > section projects were utilities that I would find be able to find > useful in day to day work such as

Re: Great Python books for the beginner

2008-01-12 Thread Landon
One thing I wonder about is the examples these books use to teach the concepts. I found myself really attached to K&R because the end of section projects were utilities that I would find be able to find useful in day to day work such as a version of wc and a program that would take collapse all con

Re: Great Python books for the beginner

2008-01-12 Thread GeneralCody
On 2008-01-12 08:03:42 +0100, Landon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Hi, I'm a freshman in college and I'm going to be taking an intro to > programming course next semester which mainly uses Python, so I > thought it might be a good time to pick up Python beyond the scope of > the class as well. The t

Re: Great Python books for the beginner

2008-01-12 Thread babycode
On Jan 12, 2:03 am, Landon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was wondering if anyone had any opinions on what other titles I > could look into since this one seems from a glance at reviews to be > teaching mainly through game programming (a topic I'm not too > interested in) or if this one is a quali

Re: Great Python books for the beginner

2008-01-12 Thread Mike
On Jan 12, 7:47 am, Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Landon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I was wondering if anyone had any opinions on what other titles I > > could look into since this one seems from a glance at reviews to be > > teaching mainly through game programming (a topic I'm not

Re: Great Python books for the beginner

2008-01-12 Thread sween119
On Jan 12, 2:03 am, Landon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, I'm a freshman in college and I'm going to be taking an intro to > programming course next semester which mainly uses Python, so I > thought it might be a good time to pick up Python beyond the scope of > the class as well. The text book f

Re: Great Python books for the beginner

2008-01-12 Thread Ben Finney
Landon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I was wondering if anyone had any opinions on what other titles I > could look into since this one seems from a glance at reviews to be > teaching mainly through game programming (a topic I'm not too > interested in) or if this one is a quality book by itself.

Re: Great Python books for the beginner

2008-01-12 Thread Jim
Look at http://www.python.org/doc/ . The tutorial is quite good. Jim -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list