From ali_brown89 at hotmail.co.uk Tue Mar 8 17:29:52 2016 From: ali_brown89 at hotmail.co.uk (Alisder) Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2016 22:29:52 +0000 Subject: [Python Glasgow] Learning Message-ID: Evening Just came across your group when i was searching for a Python course in Glasgow. I stay in Glasgow and have some rudimentary/very beginner knowledge of programming. I'm really keen to get my skill level up for stuff i'm doing at work just now (3D Modelling) and am interested to get a users opinion of what the best way to learn Python is? Are there any recommended books, courses, websites etc i should start with? Any advice would be greatly appreciated Kind Regards Alisder Brown BIM Coordinator -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From c4obi at yahoo.com Tue Mar 8 17:58:38 2016 From: c4obi at yahoo.com (Obiesie ike-nwosu) Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2016 22:58:38 +0000 Subject: [Python Glasgow] Learning In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <50DE78EE-8DE7-4667-A2B9-D403A68EBFAC@yahoo.com> Hi Alisder, I believe a good mix of books/tutorials and videos will suffice. There is a lot of great content out there for anybody that wants to learn python. A few great ones in my opinion are: Videos 1. Coursera?s Python courses (there are so many) - https://www.coursera.org/courses?query=python&languages=en Programming for everybody uses Python (enrolment ends 14th March)[Free] 2. Ed X take on the MIT Introduction to Computer Science and Programming using Python (https://www.edx.org/course/introduction-computer-science-mitx-6-00-1x-6)[Free] 3. Khan academy python courses [Free] Book 1. Dive into Python http://www.diveintopython.net/ [Free] 2. Intermediate Python https://leanpub.com/intermediatepython [Free] (shameless plug - this is my work) These are resources I would recommend you check out. The EDx course comes highly recommended. Obi. > On 8 Mar 2016, at 22:29, Alisder wrote: > > Evening > Just came across your group when i was searching for a Python course in Glasgow. > I stay in Glasgow and have some rudimentary/very beginner knowledge of programming. I'm really keen to get my skill level up for stuff i'm doing at work just now (3D Modelling) and am interested to get a users opinion of what the best way to learn Python is? Are there any recommended books, courses, websites etc i should start with? > Any advice would be greatly appreciated > > Kind Regards > > Alisder Brown > BIM Coordinator > _______________________________________________ > Glasgow mailing list > Glasgow at python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From amfarrell at mit.edu Tue Mar 8 18:16:13 2016 From: amfarrell at mit.edu (Andrew Farrell) Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2016 17:16:13 -0600 Subject: [Python Glasgow] Learning In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 4:29 PM, Alisder wrote: > Evening > > Just came across your group when i was searching for a Python course in > Glasgow. > > I stay in Glasgow and have some rudimentary/very beginner knowledge of > programming. I'm really keen to get my skill level up for stuff i'm doing > at work just now (3D Modelling) and am interested to get a users opinion of > what the best way to learn Python is? Are there any recommended books, > courses, websites etc i should start with? > > Any advice would be greatly appreciated > > > Kind Regards > > > Alisder Brown > > BIM Coordinator > > _______________________________________________ > Glasgow mailing list > Glasgow at python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow > > Hi Alisder, For learning python generally, I highly recommend Think Python . It is based on the book I originally used to learn python many years ago and is written by the same authors. I would also recommend trying out the python debugger early on--it i helpful for getting yourself un-stuck as you learn things. Finally, learning to use py.test is useful for both for playing around with things right now, breaking down bugs into smaller pieces, and for eventually building large systems robustly. For topics related specifically to 3D-modeling, I can't offer any specific recommendations besides to point you in the direction of Blender . I've never used it (I do mostly web and infrastructure development), but you might find this smattering of links useful: - /r/blenderpython - A Blender tutorial series - The official blender API docs - A video tutorial on using python within Blender . Cheers, Andrew Learn automated server configuration -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From carol.b.stewart12 at gmail.com Wed Mar 9 03:16:06 2016 From: carol.b.stewart12 at gmail.com (Carol Stewart) Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2016 08:16:06 +0000 Subject: [Python Glasgow] Learning In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Good morning, EdX (online) Introduction to Computer Programming - I really found it useful to learn in a structured way. As well as the O'Reilly books, which can be downloaded . Good luck, Carol On 8 Mar 2016 22:38, "Alisder" wrote: > Evening > > Just came across your group when i was searching for a Python course in > Glasgow. > > I stay in Glasgow and have some rudimentary/very beginner knowledge of > programming. I'm really keen to get my skill level up for stuff i'm doing > at work just now (3D Modelling) and am interested to get a users opinion of > what the best way to learn Python is? Are there any recommended books, > courses, websites etc i should start with? > > Any advice would be greatly appreciated > > > Kind Regards > > > Alisder Brown > > BIM Coordinator > > _______________________________________________ > Glasgow mailing list > Glasgow at python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: