[newbie] Buying an introductory/reference text
The Jetman
jetman516 at hotmail.com
Thu Sep 12 18:13:11 EDT 2002
Brad Fonseca <linuxbrad at rogers.com> wrote in message news:<Mu5g9.1702$U_.1021 at news04.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com>...
> Greetings!
>
> I'm looking for a few opinions on the above subject. I'm a computer
> science student who has had some introductory lectures on Python and I've
> done some very basic mucking around with. I'm looking for a clear
> reference and/or introductory text. Any suggestions would be nice. I have
> looked at http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/moinmoin/IntroductoryBooks but
> there appears to be a number of good books to choose from there.
>
> Regards,
Can't go wrong w/ Programming Python 2ndEd by Lutz from O'Reilly. Here's
a sample chapter. If you can only afford a single book, this mite be it....Jet
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/python2/chapter/ch15.html
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