[Discuss] Re: learn Python

[Tim Holloway]

i'm pretty new, but by the look of eric s raymond's page on hacking
(http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html) you're pretty much
best to just reading and writing code, as with any language.

if you put "python" into a bittorrent download site, you'll get a ton
of hits. i've done this and have reams of information in pdf to look
over. i think you have to struggle with programming, though, to really
understand it. even python.

best of luck.

tim




On 2/26/07, Jason Metz <jason at innercoredesign.com> wrote:
> You don't say what your programming background is or what type of
> application you are trying to put together...
>
> As far as I know, there is no classroom python training available on
> Vancouver Island or Vancouver for that matter. Programming Python by Mark
> Lutz (O'Reilly, also available through their safari bookshelf) is a witty
> and fairly comprehensive tutorial that is written with no prior programming
> experience assumed, and all the code examples that I tried worked. The
> Python Cookbook will give you a number of recipes for common problems, if
> you have something in particular that you are trying to accomplish.
>
> I do not program in python much, I had several projects that used it about a
> year ago, but I am not very fluent. It's a nice language, very terse, quick
> to code and fairly readable. Most of my development has migrated to Eclipse
> over the past couple years, so I use the pyDev plugin, but Komodo is great,
> and of course emacs has very nice python support.
>
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