Off Topic: What is the good book to learn Python ?

[Shane Geiger]

Here are some excellent online books and tutorials to get started with:
http://www.python.org/doc/tut/ http://www.ibiblio.org/obp/thinkCSpy/ 
http://www.python.org/topics/learn/prog.html  
http://www.python.org/topics/learn/non-prog.html  
http://docs.python.org/lib/  http://diveintopython.org/ 
http://gnosis.cx/TPiP/  http://rox.sourceforge.net/basic_python.html


Here are some lists of books you can read online:
http://www.techbooksforfree.com/perlpython.shtml
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Programming:Python
http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonBooks


Some books:

Byte of Python
 - online: http://www.byteofpython.info/files/120/byteofpython_120.pdf

Quick Tour of Python
 - online: 
http://stsdas.stsci.edu/pyraf/doc/python_quick_tour/python_quick_tour.pdf

Python in Nutshell
 - online: 
http://files.nixp.ru/books/programming/python/O%27Reilly%20--%20Python%20In%20A%20Nutshell.chm

Python Standard Library
 - online: http://effbot.org/zone/librarybook-index.htm

Python tutorial
 - online: 
http://www.ensta.fr/~enstar/doc/python/Python-Docs-2.4-PDF/tut.pdf


kaens wrote:
> On 30 May 2007 11:25:22 -0700, Katie Tam <katietam at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> I am new to this filed and begin to learn this langague. Can you tell
>> me the good books to start with ?
>>
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>> Katie Tam
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> If you're experienced with other programming languages, I'd recommend
> python in a nutshell, or perhaps programming python. I personally just
> skimmed through the online tutorial, and kept the library and api
> references handy.
>
> Orielly publishers almost always have excellent books on learning new
> programming languages.
>
> I would also recommend to stay away from any "for dummies" or "in x
> (hours/days)" books. They can be decent introductory material, but
> unless you are really really new to programming, you probably wouldn't
> be getting enough information to justify the cost of the book (and a
> lot of times they have a lot of bad practices in them)
>
> Good luck!
>   

-- 
Shane Geiger
IT Director
National Council on Economic Education
sgeiger at ncee.net  |  402-438-8958  |  http://www.ncee.net

Leading the Campaign for Economic and Financial Literacy

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