Newbie needs book advice
Christopher W. Boerger
cdboerger at earthlink.net
Sat Apr 14 23:18:28 EDT 2001
Hey all,
I've gotten the bug to learn programming and have chosen Python as the
language to learn with. I've downloaded python 2.0 (MacOS) from
python.org and started printing out some of the online tutorials
available from the site. However, I've discovered while the online
tutorials are good, they pretty much cover rules and syntax and don't
get into examples, lessons or applying what was just taught into some
real-world examples. I guess I'm looking for some homework at the end
of a lesson.
So I decided to purchase a book to learn the language and get some
programming assignments (homework) as well. I've narrowed it down to
two books: Learning Python by Mark Lutz from O'Reilly and Learning To
Program Using Python: A Tutorial For Hobbyists, Self-Starters, And Those
Who Want To Learn The Art Of Programming by Alan Gauld from
Addison-Wesley.
Any thoughts, opinions, advice? My background in programming is limited
to a Pascal class in college, although I did ace the class with a 97% -
not bad for a Political Science major :^)
Thank you for your help.
Chris
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