[Tutor] Python Book Recommendations

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My company has a subscription with the books24x7.com site, and I'm sure they
offer individual accounts, but so far I'm ashamed that I've paid close to
200$ worth of computer books that I could have been accessing online for
free. Including 'dummies' books, Teach yourself whatever, and just a
multitude of other books. Just did a quick search for titles with 'python'
and returned about 20.



On 8/14/07, Terry Carroll <carroll at tjc.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 14 Aug 2007, Brian Wisti wrote:
>
> > Check with your local library, too.
>
> Or even your not-so-local library.
>
> > The Seattle Public Library provides access to a limited selection of the
> > Safari books (stuff published in the last 2 years from a handful of
> > publishers). Maybe your region has similar access.
>
> I just did a quick search of the San Jose catalog, and see a bunch of
> online Python-related books:
>
>   Core Python Programming (2006, 2 copies)
>   Game Programming with Python (2004)
>   Programming Python (2006, 2 copies)
>   Python Cookbook (2005, 2 copies)
>   Python Essential reference (2006, 2 copies)
>   Python in a Nutshell (2006, 2 copies)
>   Python Phrasebook (2006, 2 copies)
>   Python programming for the absolute beginner (2003)
>   Python programming on Win32 (2000)
>   Rapid web appplications with TurboGears (2006, 2 copies)
>   Sams teach yourself Python in 24 hours (2000)
>   Twisted network programming essentials (2005)
>   Twisted network programming essentials (2006, 2 copies)
>
> And here's the kicker:
>
>    The City of San Jose offers free library cards to all California
>    residents or property owners.
>
>    http://www.sjlibrary.org/legal/policies.htm?pID=313
>
> So a lot of not-so-local readers can get access to this material.  It's
> not nationwide or worldwide, but it's better than just being limited to
> San Jose.  (Of course I don't know the practical aspects of getting a
> library card; can you do it by mail?)
>
> But leaving this particular library aside: see if there's a large library
> system that you're not personally a part of that you can use.  For years,
> I lived in Santa Clara, not too far from San Jose.  I used Santa Clara's
> own city library; the much larger San Jose library; the Santa Clara
> County library system (which provides a library to a number of cities in
> the county that prefer to be part of a larger system to operating their
> own); and even, for a while, the Santa Cruz County library system (when I
> used to work down that way).
>
> Libraries rock.  Use them well, and you can rock, too.
>
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