[BangPypers] Suggest me a book

Yuvi Panda yuvipanda at gmail.com
Thu Oct 15 15:17:11 CEST 2009


Hey nobody mentioned Pragmatic Programmer? And Paul Graham's essays, while
not a book, are just as good. I personally feel the best writing of the
future will not be the ones printed on dead trees.

On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 6:03 PM, Roshan Mathews <rmathews at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 5:47 PM, Noufal Ibrahim <noufal at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 5:38 PM, Vinayak Hegde <vinayakh at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> Yeah those two are good too. Other than that I would suggest
> >> "Adventures of a Pythonista in Schemeland"
> >> (
> http://www.phyast.pitt.edu/~micheles/scheme/TheAdventuresofaPythonistainSchemeland.pdf<http://www.phyast.pitt.edu/%7Emicheles/scheme/TheAdventuresofaPythonistainSchemeland.pdf>
> )
> >> , Little Schemer and seasoned schemer for those who want to learn
> >> functional languages.
> >
> > Is the adventures of a Pythonista... the same as was published a while
> > ago as a series of blog entries?
> >
> Looks like it.
>
> Thanks for the link Vinayak, the blog entries had got bookmarked and
> lost in del.icio.us long ago.
>
> Have you read both LS and SS?  Where did you get them?  I borrowed LS
> from my brother some time back, but have been stuck at the place they
> introduce the Y combinator.  How is SS?
>
> Roshan Mathews
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