[Tutor] unorderable types
boB Stepp
robertvstepp at gmail.com
Sun Aug 6 16:25:19 EDT 2017
Curses! I screwed up my later insertion. I should have written in my footnote:
On Sun, Aug 6, 2017 at 3:20 PM, boB Stepp <robertvstepp at gmail.com> wrote:
> [1] An exception is "Beginning Python -- From Novice to Professional,
> 3rd ed." by Magnus Lie Hetland, c. 2017. I recently acquired this
> book and so far I am enjoying it. I would not recommend it for a true
> beginner to programming, but for anyone that has had any experience
> programming in any language I think it might be a good read for such a
> person to learn Python. The author seems to bring in all of the
> syntactic elements, either directly or in sidebars/sections that can
> be skipped for later reading. Perhaps unfortunately, he does not
> provide many examples, thus making it fast-paced, but if you have
> any programming experience, this can be an advantage as such a person
> probably does not need a lot of repetitive examples. The latter section
> of the book has ten substantial projects he goes through that have
> mostly practical applications for real world examples. I might do a
> more detailed review later once I finish the book to see if my initial
> impression holds up. But so far I wish it were the first Python book
> I ever picked up!
>
> --
> boB
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boB
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