New to Python
Grant Edwards
grante at visi.com
Sat Jan 26 20:54:22 EST 2002
In article <wDH48.3403$Ox4.13294 at rwcrnsc51.ops.asp.att.net>, Bill May wrote:
> Hello all, I am looking into the possibility of a job change in the next
> month or two. The company I am looking at uses Python. For the last 2 years
> I have been programming with Java, (Swing, JDBC, EJB's).
>
> What I am looking for is any ideas on good web-sites or books to teach
> myself Python.
There's more stuff than you could read in one lifetime online
at www.python.org. There's a number of tutorials, plus the
definitive online references for the language and library modules.
There's a nice list of Python books at http://www.amk.ca/bookstore/python.html
If you've got some money to spend on books, my recommendations
are:
1) Python Essential Reference
It's got a nice introduction to Python at the beginning
which I think is sufficient for anybody who has already done
some object-oriented programming. The rest is mostly a
refernce for the extensive Python library, but it's awfully
nice to have hard copy handy when you just don't have any
more room on your screen. It's also nice just for glacing
through the sections on stuff you might not ever think to
look up online.
2) If you're going to use Tkinter:
Python and Tkinter Programming
The definitive book on using the Tk binding of Python. Also
has nice examples of how to build a decent-sized application
using Python's object/class constructs.
3) Python Programming on Win32
I don't have a copy but if you're going to do a lot of
Windows specific stuff, you might want a copy. It's from
O'Reilly and the authors know more about doing Win32 and COM
stuff than does Microsoft.
The next one I'm probably going to by is
4) Python Standard Library with CDROM
It's by Fredrik Lundh, and it's from O'Reilly, so one really
has to buy it just on general principal.
The one Python book I have that I didn't like much is
Programming With Python (Prima Publishing). Note: this is
different than Programming Python (O'Reilly). Programming With
Python is a collection of annotated examples. At first it
seemed like it would be a good resource, but I could never find
examples relevent to the questions I was trying to answer, and I
never use it much.
There are a handful of intro/tutorial/teach-yourself-python
type books, but I've never looked at any of them...
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