Re: Unfortunate newbie questions!

2005-09-13 Thread Chris Lasher
I would have to say that never having done any OO programming before in my life, I found _Learning_Python_ by Lutz & Ascher had a great couple of chapters on it. The diagrams about inheritance and subclassing really helped a lot and they describe the purpose of using OOP quite well. I see you alrea

Subject: Re: Unfortunate newbie questions!

2005-09-13 Thread CPIM Ronin
Thanks Colin and Alessandro! Alessandro, I've found most of your references and am going through them! RC From: "Colin J. Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: python-list@python.org Subject: Re: Unfortunate newbie questions! Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 15:06:58 -0400 CPIM Ronin w

Re: Unfortunate newbie questions!

2005-09-12 Thread aleaxit
Alessandro Bottoni wrote: ... > > - In college, I came to admire the Schaum's Outline book > >approach--again heavy on problems and solutions! What's > >the closest Python equivalent? > > Maybe this: > > Python Cookbook > Alex Martelli, David Ascher > O'Reilly I'd rather s

Re: Unfortunate newbie questions!

2005-09-12 Thread Alessandro Bottoni
> - What book or doc would you recommend for a thorough >thrashing of object oriented programming (from a Python >perspective) for someone who is weak in OO? In other >words, how can someone learn to think in an OO sense, >rather than the old linear code sense?

Re: Unfortunate newbie questions!

2005-09-12 Thread Colin J. Williams
CPIM Ronin wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I'm brand spanking new to Python, busy reading docs and going through > two of the ubiquitous O'Reilly books--"Learning Python" by Lutz/Ascher > and "Python Programming on Win32" by Hammond/Robinson. > > Still I have a just few newbie questions: > >-In

Unfortunate newbie questions!

2005-09-12 Thread CPIM Ronin
Hi Folks, I'm brand spanking new to Python, busy reading docs and going through two of the ubiquitous O'Reilly books--"Learning Python" by Lutz/Ascher and "Python Programming on Win32" by Hammond/Robinson. Still I have a just few newbie questions: -In the Windows Python version, how c