[Discuss] Re: Discuss Digest, Vol 12, Issue 3

[Jeff Childs]

http://www.diveintopython.org/

This is the best resource I've seen for learning Python.

HTH

Jeff

On 2/26/07, discuss-request at nanlug.org <discuss-request at nanlug.org> wrote:
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> From: "Jason Metz" <jason at innercoredesign.com>
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> You don't say what your programming background is or what type of
> application you are trying to put together...
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> 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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> Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 11:39:00 -0800
> From: "Tim Holloway" <timothyjholloway at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Discuss] Re: learn Python
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> 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
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> 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.
> >
> > Jason Metz | Technical Director
> > Inner Core Design, 11 Captain Kidds Terrace, Nanaimo V9R 6R1
> > T. 250.740.1524 | www.innercoredesign.com
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