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Summary: Best Python Book To Start With
Comment: This is a wonderful introductory book to Python for people with a (small) background in programming. Significantly more readable than Programming Python, this volume succinctly relates what you need to know without bogging down in extended examples or tedious details. From here the online references take over or, like a true hacker, you can just start reading source code. Together with the upcoming Python Cookbook, this is all you need to buy to be productive in the best language you are ever likely to meet. Nice rat, too.
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Summary: beginning python
Comment: Well this book is a decent reference on how to use python the older version. If the book would have had an input statement or two to make it more interactive, the book would have been great!
A couple of simple practical examples, that you can see the out come of a file that you saved. The interpreter is okay, but you would like to see a simple example using the input statement to make interesting..
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Summary: Good, improvable.
Comment: You can learn Python from this book. However, this is not one of those books which capture your attention, like, say, Kernighan's books, or even "Learning Perl". You have to fight against this book. This is mainly for the following reasons, IMHO:
1. Jargon is used too frequently. If you are not a hacker (in the good, original sense) you have to work against the language (not Python, English!), too. I had to reach for the "Hacker's Dictionary", now and then. For instance, the word "hook" is used in a technical sense without being explained.
2. Object is never defined. In the "official" tutorial, which is much shorter, a clear and concise definition is given. This is badly needed, for "object", in the python world, is different that in
C++, or smalltalk, world, where it is a class instance. In python it is the triple (type, address, value).
3. Phrases like "Classes are mostly just namespace" don't help the beginner who wants to know what distinguishes a concept from another. These abstractions are premature.
4. The too frequent use of Monthy Python terms like "spam" and
"eggs" is ridiculous, and makes the examples seem totally useless pieces of programming.So, I think this book is perfect for one who is a personal programmer and wants to learn quickly what Python is all about. He will probably like the book for the very reasons I complain against it. The subtitle is correct: Help for Programmers. Still, you'll learn the language. But with a fight!
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Summary: Simply the BEST book for learning Python.
Comment: I've seen the rest; this is the best. A colleague and I decided to concentrate on learning Python for the next few months. We have used a few books; none of these comes close to this book. This is the ONLY book I would recommend for learning Python provided you already had some programming experience with another language.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Good if you already know programming little bit.....
Comment: This book is pretty good for those who already know programming [such in c++/c/etc..] a little bit. If you have no experience in programming you might get lost sometime. After all this book gives the flavor of Python doesn't go very deep for example it doesn't say how to search in a list or it doesn't talk about advanced mathematical calculation on Matrix even though Python has impressive built-in functions for Matrix calculation. So far I liked this book and if I wanted to know more I had to search on the internet. After all I liked this book. I am thinking to buy another book which covers more advanced topics and STL stuffs. Hope you will be able to ... thanks and good luck.
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