[Tutor] Re: New book out

[Rob Andrews]

I also got to do some technical reviewing of the book (They spelled my 
name right and mentioned Useless Python! woohoo!), and I liked it. It's 
not without issue, of course, but it does introduce a wide range of 
different (and relevant) topics in a manner that could be quite handy.

peace,
Rob
http://www.lowerstandard.com/python
(I promise to get that update finished soon!)


> 
> Yeah, I was one of the technical reviewers, as was Alan.
> It has exercises at the end of each chapter.  Pretty
> comprehensive treatment of topics, though even in that
> many pages you can't go too deep.  Has stuff on Alice
> (multimedia), Pygame (uses it to make a CD player, which
> I found innovative), talking to MySQL via CGI, and lots
> on XML, including 3rd party Python tools for parsing
> XML files.
> 
> There's a certain format characteristic of all books in
> the series that has its drawbacks (as well as its pluses).
> Sometimes the line-by-line analysis paragraphs can be
> pretty dense, but if you're willing to concentrate...
> 
> I CD comes with Apache, Alice, other stuff (which you
> can also get on the web of course).
> 
> It costs a lot, but you get a lot.  It's an OK survey
> (GUI programming, some stuff on threads), a good way to
> get your feet wet on a lot of topics, using a very
> learnable language (Python).  As such, it's a jumping
> off point for getting into specific topics in more
> depth.
> 
> Kirby