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Summary: learning python
Comment: unlike other people who had such a wonderful experience with the book, mine was a complete disaster.The first chapter was dedicated to running the program, and modules files, in the second chapter author would give a code example and end it with comments like" we will explain the concept in later chapters" that turned me off cause if you going to use an example expalin it or give an example that's pertains with the chapter. furthermore, later chapters of the book, were written with sample code with no Explanation at all. what good is it going to do me? a code without Explanation.. Anyway i am looking for a more detailed book on python. If anyone can help me out please post a note. thanks
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Summary: Good Introduction, but limited
Comment: Learning Python is a good introduction, but if you are serious about learning and using python, you will need this book AND the larger Programming Python. An example of Learning Python's shortcomings is __str__ is not in the index for Learning Python (__str__ is the default way to print). It IS in the index for Programming Python. I have found using both books to have all the information I need.Learning Python also has a pretty good introduction to object oriented programming and how it is implemented in Python. I haven't done a lot of OO programming and the description in Learning Python was readable and understandable. Another thing I liked about Learning Pytyhon is that the end of each chapter had interactive examples you could run to reinforce the ideas presented in the chapter. Clearly however, Learning Python is much better for beginners. And I must say, the index's of both book are pretty good.
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Summary: Excellent introduction to Python
Comment: Together with "Perl: the programmer's companion", by Nigel Chapman, this is one of the best introductory book I ever read. If you already know "Programming Python", the previous book of Mark Lutz on Python, and are concerned about the possibility that this book was just another messy collection of concepts and tips, relax: this is a completely different object. "learning Python" is a well-designed, well-written and concise book. It gives you all you need to write system administration utilities, Internet-related programs and other small applications. (Should you need a book on TKinter, the standard GUI module of Python, buy "Python and TKinter programming", by John Grayson, Manning publisher).Consider to buy this book because: - It is clear and well written. No struggles to understand the basic concepts and having the first programs running. - It is well-designed and well-structured. You can find the info you need in a snap. - You get a real understanding of Python, not only a description of its nice features. - It is concise. In a day or two you will be coding in Python. - It is a very good guide to keep on your desk. It is the missing part of the online documentation. - In describes how to perform the most common task with Python. You will not have to reinvent any wheel. - It describes a few important modules of Python: JPython, TKinter and COM. You can get a feeling of what you can do with Python (but, to go further, you will have to read the online documentation and perform a few experiments by yourself). Python is a very smart language and deserved a better book than "Programming Python". This is that book.
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Summary: Good starting point for pythoneers
Comment: This is a nice beginners textbook for Python which deals with many deatails, so that it is also valuable for people who already know Python. Still it is not reaching up to the highest branches of Python art. That would be the task of a massively revised second edition of the other Lutz book: "Programming Python". And it has to be said: Python is a great language!
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Summary: Python deserves a better intro. than this
Comment: Python is a really interesting scripting language--about half way between Perl and Java. This book isn't hard to read, but it's not very interesting or entertaining. It covers a lot of the details of syntax, but doesn't really illustrate what the language is good for or how you would solve real world problems with it. If you like foo() examples, you'll love this book...
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