The Deitel book (was Re: Textbooks on Perl/Python)

Aahz aahz at pythoncraft.com
Tue Nov 5 11:07:13 EST 2002


In article <m27kfsm2x8.fsf at python.net>, Michael Hudson  <mwh at python.net> wrote:
>Alex Martelli <aleax at aleax.it> writes:
>>
>> if and when a student manages to work all through it, I think the
>> student WILL feel pretty confident in their mastery of the subject.
>
>("it" is Deitel & Deitel's Python : How To Program)
>
>My concern was that the student might feel confident in the subject
>after reading the book, but that this might not be justified.  It does
>cover a huge amount of material, but not with enormous depth (at
>least, not in the chapters *I* tech reviewed).

My concerns were primarily teaching of poor coding techniques (e.g. use
of magic numbers instead of well-named constants) and an approach that I
can best describe as Python written by a Java programmer (rather than
teaching a Pythonic approach).
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