Best way to learn Python ?

[Joel Ricker]

J5 wrote in message ...
>No schools teach it, so what books do you recommend ?
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>Also, what are some cool programming projects I could do ?
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>What do you guys write with python ?
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>J5

The tutorial from python.org is the best place to start.  Theres also a
batch of documentation available from that site as well like a python
library reference or other resources that is just about everything you need.

I can't say what books you should use yet as I haven't felt the need to buy
one yet, the available documentation being plenty for now.  As a matter of
fact, the first "book" I'll buy is pay to have the python library reference
printed and bound for reading convience.

I've only been using python for about a week so I haven't done much.  I
wrote a couple of number crunching programs to test out python's number
limits, which btw, is generally only limited by the available memory of the
computer.  I'm also working on a web-based strategy game so I've been doing
small parts of the greater whole like player login, map creation, unit
design, etc. I haven't run across anything that Python couldn't do as so far
have been really pleased.  I've gotten more done in a week in Python that
I've been trying to do in six months in Perl.

Also a nice source of programming projects is:
http://acm.fi.uva.es/problemset/  Mostly math related projects but great for
using to learn the basics of python with and test your logic skills.

Have fun!
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