[Tutor] What books do you recommend?

[Che M]

> My problem, though, is I still find it difficult to write meaningful code or use the built in libraries 

> effectively and/or correctly because I can't find example code to mimic. I tried sifting through 

> ActiveState recipes page, but most of the code seems uninteresting or useful only if utilized 

> in a bigger project. 

What do you mean by "meaningful" code?  I think that might be your issue.  



What I'd recommend is to figure out *what you want to accomplish*.  Python is just a means

to accomplish something, but what matters is the accomplishment.  You may want to write a 

GUI desktop app for a specific purpose.  You may want to create a web-based app.  You may

want to write code to process information, scrape web sites...create a game, create some

kind of tool.  



Once you decide on that, you will be more focused on what you need to learn.  If, for

example, you need to have persistent storage of information, you then might want to

read up on databases and perhaps SQLite in Python.  Etc.  Then you will find code that

will be applicable to your concerns, and help you learn.  I feel that learning something 

"in a vacuum", unrelated to some personal creative goal, just doesn't work well.



Che

 		 	   		  
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