Re: [Tutor] Book recommendations

[Magnus Lycka]

> can anyone suggest good/great python newbie books? i use to own Alan 
> Gauld's excellent book, but i'm also looking for others.

I think Chris Fehily's book is rather nice.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0201748843/

It's also fairly cheap and reasonably brief.

Of course, any paper book is bound to be a little out
of date rather soon.

Most of the examples in the book (and there are plenty)
use the interactive interpreter to explore various features
of Python. I think that's a good idea--the interpreter *is*
very useful for learning Python, so getting used to exploring
Python like this is probably a good idea.

It might be a bit of a hurdle for the programmer to figure 
out how to actually apply these things in a normal program
though...

But there are plenty of online tutorials and code resources
to complement this book with.

E.g.
http://www.diveintopython.org/ (also published on paper now)
http://www.uselesspython.com/
http://www.activestate.com/ASPN/Python/Cookbook/ (Do you need 
to register for this now? Stupid Sophos!)


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