I guess i will start out with your tutorial, hope it won't get as difficult as the previous one :-)<br><br>thanks<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/14/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Alan Gauld</b> <<a href="mailto:alan.gauld@btinternet.com">
alan.gauld@btinternet.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>"Khamid Nurdiev" <<a href="mailto:khamid.nurdiev@gmail.com">
khamid.nurdiev@gmail.com</a>> wrote<br><br>> This book by M. Zelle is getting really difficult shortly<br>> after that section<br><br>I can't comment on the specific book but unfortunately its<br>a common phenomenon that "beginner" books start of easy
<br>then suddenly get much harder. This is partly because it is<br>very hard for an experienced programmer to think like a true<br>beginner, there is just so much we take for granted as obvious.<br><br>> the recommendations on books for beginners i have ordered the book
<br>> "Core<br>> Python Programming" by Wesley Chun, so comparing those two books<br>> which one<br>> is more suitable (recommended) for a beginner to both python and<br>> programming?<br><br>Wes' book is a very good book on Python, personally I think it might
<br>be quite fast paced and detailed for a beginner to programming but<br>there are plenty tutorials on the web for that, including mine! :-)<br><br>> Here in our local library, the first edition of "Core python<br>
> programming"<br>> is available so i guess i will use it till I receive the second<br>> edition, ...<br>> . Is there much difference between the first and second editions?<br><br>In the detauil yes but not in the fundamental principles. Especially
<br>the early chapters seem pretty similar. Mind you I've only looked<br>at the second edition in depth, I've only seen the first edition in<br>book<br>stores...<br><br>> also one more book, i haven't ordered it yet, is the "Python from
<br>> novice to<br>> professional" by Magnus Lie Hetland, is it worth ordering and<br>> studying for a<br>> complete noob?<br><br>No idea but you really don't want too many introductory texts,<br>you will rarely look at them once you learn how to program.
<br>(Wes' book is a good exception since he has a lot of "under the<br>covers"<br>stuff about how python works which even experienced pythonistas can<br>use)<br><br>HTH,<br><br>--<br>Alan Gauld<br>Author of the Learn to Program web site
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