[newbie] Looking for a good introduction to object oriented programming with Python

Roy Smith roy at panix.com
Sun Aug 5 18:53:45 EDT 2012


On 05/08/2012 20:46, lipska the kat wrote:
>  Design Patterns by Gamma, Helm, Johnson and Vlissides

In article <mailman.2980.1344204577.4697.python-list at python.org>,
 Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Please no, that's the worst possible book for someone trying to learn 
> OOD in Python.

+1 what Mark said.  It's certainly the classic patterns book, but most 
of it is about clever ways to work around the C++/Java style of type 
bondage.  Trying to learn OO from that book is like learning to paint by 
reading a textbook on the chemical properties of oil pigments.



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