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Offline blankanon

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Python Books
« on: August 12, 2011, 08:12:28 am »
Greetings,


I just downloaded Python and was wondering about textbook suggestions.  I have found this book and it is used by Wake Forest: Python Programming: An Introduction to Computer Science 2nd Edition.


What does the collective think of this book?  If this is no good, what could someone suggest?


Thank you for your time,


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Offline Kulverstukas

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Re: Python Books
« Reply #1 on: August 12, 2011, 08:33:54 am »
Greetings.
This is how I roll:

When I started on Python a few months ago, I did it like this (as I do with other languages): read, test and learn the basics of the language, like syntax, algorithms, some basic libs and then think of some project to make and start building it. The harder - the better. Of course don't think of some Exe debugging ASM thingamajig.
Another reason I don't read books is that material in them gets old with time and languages change in some way and I don't like reading lots of useless text. Also there is no comments. Unlike the websites, they cannot be updated at any time. Or forums where someone asks a problem, others solve it and some comments on what could have been done to make shit better.

So yeah, this is my way of learning - no books, learn basics, read, test, learn.

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Re: Python Books
« Reply #2 on: August 18, 2011, 10:53:23 am »
just the official python website, and google is your best friend.   tough if you are not familiar with programming you should read up some information about the concept behind programming,   
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