<div>Excellent, I'll be getting that book tomorrow! Thanks again, I'm doing a tutorial as we speak!</div>
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/19/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Danny Yoo</b> <<a href="mailto:dyoo@hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu">dyoo@hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"><br><br>On Mon, 19 Sep 2005, Ed Hotchkiss wrote:<br><br>> Thanks Danny! Tommorrow I am off to get "Programming for Python, 2nd
<br>> edition" and learn everything - all of it, before I even bother with<br>> Sockets.<br><br>Hi Ed,<br><br>I'd disrecommend Programming Python if you're a beginner. Programming<br>Python is really more of an expedition over Python's features than a
<br>tutorial. Furthermore, it's a very thick and heavy book, and I have<br>something of a grudge against books that make me strain my wrists. I<br>personally think that "Learning Python" will be a better fit for you.
<br><br>I also have heard good things about Alan Gauld's "Learn to Program Using<br>Python", which is an expansion of the online tutorials you've been reading<br>into book form. And I've heard that the author is pretty responsive.
<br>*grin*<br><br>For more information, you can take a look at:<br><br> <a href="http://wiki.python.org/moin/IntroductoryBooks">http://wiki.python.org/moin/IntroductoryBooks</a><br><br>for book reviews of other introductory texts.
<br><br><br>But finally, you may also want to look at:<br><br> <a href="http://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide/Programmers">http://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide/Programmers</a><br> <a href="http://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide/NonProgrammers">
http://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide/NonProgrammers</a><br><br>You might be able to get pretty far from the online tutorials there.<br><br><br>Good luck!<br><br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>edward hotchkiss