[Tutor] help on newbie program

[Magnus Lyckå]

At 17:26 2003-05-28 -0600, Nick Jensen wrote:
>Btw, any suggestion for a good book to go through for a python newbie? I 
>wanted to try some of the online guides first before I spend money, but 
>will eventually need more material.

It's a long time since I was a newbie... There are
certainly some books aiming at beginners. I'd like
to hear comments from others.

There is Alan Gauld's "Learn to Program using Python" which
is aimed at complete beginners. Alan also have a web site at
http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld/

So is "How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: Learning with Python"
which is also on line at http://www.ibiblio.org/obp/thinkCSpy/
That is a bit more academic than Alans book.

For more about Python books, see
http://www.thinkware.se/cgi-bin/thinki.cgi/PythonDocs
http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/moinmoin/IntroductoryBooks
http://gnosis.cx/publish/programming/charming_python_b8.txt
http://gnosis.cx/publish/programming/charming_python_b3.txt
http://gnosis.cx/publish/programming/charming_python_12.txt
and of course
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-form/ref=s_b_rs/103-1150007-9287854

Anyway, this is becoming a FAQ I think. Maybe we should have a
FAQ page somewhere on the web?


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