[portland] Recommendation for book to use in classroom?

[michelle rowley]

what about dive into python (http://diveintopython.org/)? it's free, which
is good for students. i used it quite a bit when i was learning python, and
i liked it. just a thought...

michelle

On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 8:16 AM, Dylan Reinhardt
<python at dylanreinhardt.com>wrote:

> O'Reilly's Learning Python is a classic... though it's gained a lot of
> weight the last couple revisions.
>
> It's not structured as a text, if that matters to you.
>
> $.02
>
> Dylan
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 9:22 PM, Charles Anderson
> <master.sparkle at gmail.com>wrote:
>
> > Does anyone have a recommendation for a (text) book to use for teaching
> > Python to students who already know Java?  I'll be teaching a college
> class
> > in spring to students who have had at least 2 quarters of Java.  So, they
> > should be hip to the basics of programming - e.g., conditionals,
> iteration,
> > methods, classes, etc.  I'd like to focus on "more interesting" bits of
> > Python that are difficult or impossible in straight Java - e.g.,
> > introspection, duck-typing, possibly metaclasses.
> >
> >
> > thanks,
> > Charles.
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