Learning Python

[dannypatterson at comcast.net]

I would suggest buying Beginning Python: Novice to Professional, by Magnus hetland. It is IMO the best Python book written to date. This book this mailing-list and Python.org are all you should need. 


> I'm spending the next two weeks off and I'm looking to take a crack at 
> learning how to program in Python.  Here's a list of the places I've 
> bookmarked:
> 
> http://www.python.org/doc/ and more specifically
> http://wiki.python.org/moin/
> http://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide
> http://www.python.org/doc/Intros.html
> http://www.python.org/topics/
> 
> I'm looking for additional resources (links, names of books, 
> whatever...) that you think may help me out.
> 
> I'm a hobby programmer using mostly BASIC(s) and some Java.  I know 
> procedural programming and I know what encapsulation, inheritance and 
> polymorphism are but I have very little experience in using them as I've 
> written just a few Java programs (i.e., I guess I could use a primer in 
> OO programming).
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> paul
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