some random reflections of a "Python newbie": (1) books, and free sites

[William Park]

On Fri, Dec 10, 1999 at 04:58:28PM +0000, Brett g Porter wrote:
> 
> "Grant Edwards" <grant at nowhere.> wrote in message
> news:slrn8524tl.jcd.grant at grante.comtrol.com...
> > What I'd like is a good intermediate level book written for an
> > audience that already knows the basics of programming and
> > language theory.
> Hear, hear. I'm on my second go-through of "Programming Python," and
> continue to shake my head -- I've been programming professionally for close
> to 10 years now, and this book has the rare ability to make me feel that I
> know less after reading it than I did before.
> 
> Also, I already own all the scripts to Python (Monty), and don't need to get
> them in a programming text.
> 
> I was looking for a 'little' language and almost bought a Perl book instead
> (before I looked at enough Perl code to realize that it looks like the
> bastard stepchild of awk & Basic). I wasn't expecting the depth that I'm
> finding in Python.

Try "The Quick Python Book" by Ken McDonald from Manning Publications.
I saw them in bookstore, yesterday, beside O'Reilly's "Programming
Python" and "Learning Python".

> 
> What I'd _really_ like is the Python equivalent of Bruce Eckel's "Thinking
> in..." series -- I know that Bruce is going to throw a Python seminar soon,
> so maybe...