Best way to learn Python ?
Joel Ricker
joejava at dragonat.net
Tue Jan 16 22:19:39 EST 2001
J5 wrote in message ...
>No schools teach it, so what books do you recommend ?
>
>Also, what are some cool programming projects I could do ?
>
>What do you guys write with python ?
>
>J5
The tutorial from python.org is the best place to start. Theres also a
batch of documentation available from that site as well like a python
library reference or other resources that is just about everything you need.
I can't say what books you should use yet as I haven't felt the need to buy
one yet, the available documentation being plenty for now. As a matter of
fact, the first "book" I'll buy is pay to have the python library reference
printed and bound for reading convience.
I've only been using python for about a week so I haven't done much. I
wrote a couple of number crunching programs to test out python's number
limits, which btw, is generally only limited by the available memory of the
computer. I'm also working on a web-based strategy game so I've been doing
small parts of the greater whole like player login, map creation, unit
design, etc. I haven't run across anything that Python couldn't do as so far
have been really pleased. I've gotten more done in a week in Python that
I've been trying to do in six months in Perl.
Also a nice source of programming projects is:
http://acm.fi.uva.es/problemset/ Mostly math related projects but great for
using to learn the basics of python with and test your logic skills.
Have fun!
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