Recommendations please

[searcher7 at my-deja.com]

Then can you tell me what is the best book for non-programmers that
you've ever seen? :-)

Darren Harris (Searcher7 at mail.con2.com)

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In article <8nk3s2$gij$1 at slb6.atl.mindspring.net>,
  aahz at netcom.com (Aahz Maruch) wrote:
> In article <8ngm0902as2 at news2.newsguy.com>,
> Alex Martelli <alex at magenta.com> wrote:
> >
> >My current favourite is "The Quick Python Book" by Daryl Harms and
> >Kenneth McDonald, published by Manning Publications.  It explicitly
> >says that you should have some superficial language of some one
> >programming language before you start; but don't know of any *books*
> >that claim to teach Python to somebody who's never programmed before
> >in any language at all.
>
> _Teach Yourself Python in 24 Hours_ by Ivan Van Laningham is intended
> for non-programmers.  Disclaimer: I was the technical editor, but that
> doesn't stop me from pointing out that while this is probably the best
> book available for non-programmers starting with Python, it's not the
> best book for non-programmers that I've ever seen -- many of the
> examples don't teach proper programming style from my POV.
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