[Tutor] Books for Learning Python

[lconrad at go2france.com]

on line Python courses with labs

google "python the hard way"

udemy.com  also has python courses

https://developers.google.com/edu/python/

http://www.codecademy.com/tracks/python

google "free online python programming classes courses"

Len





On Friday 11/01/2013 at 3:18 pm, Gary L. Gray  wrote:
> On Jan 11, 2013, at 1:39 PM, Alan Gauld <alan.gauld at btinternet.com> 
> wrote:
>
>>
>> On 11/01/13 14:10, Chris Rogers wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello all, I've began my journey into Python (2.7 currently) and I'm
>>> finding it a bit rough using the python.org <http://python.org>
>>> tutorials.
>>
>> You don't tell us your starting point.
>>
>> Are you experienced in programming in other languages or is python 
>> your first foray into Programming? Are you a professional or hobbyist?
>>
>> Do you have a scientific or math background?
>>
>> All of these influence what makes a book suitable.
>> Some of the tutorials listed on Python.org are also paper books 
>> (including mine).
>>
>> Which tutorials have you looked at? The official tutor is good for 
>> people who can already program. The non-programmes ones are better if 
>> you can't already program (as you'd expect!). There are also several 
>> python videos available on sites likeshowmedo.com
>>
>> If you can answer the above questions we might be able to recommend 
>> some books.
>
> I am also looking for some good resources for learning Python. Here is 
> my background.
>
> I did a lot of programming in Fortran 77 while working on my Ph.D. in 
> engineering mechanics (graduated in 1993). I did some simple 
> programming in Matlab and Mathematica in the 90s, but all the coding 
> for my research since then has been done by my graduate students. I 
> want to get back into programming so that I can create applications 
> and animate the motion of objects for undergraduate and graduate 
> dynamics courses I teach. Friends tell me Python is a good choice for 
> an object oriented language (about which I know almost nothing) that 
> has a readable syntax.
>
> With this in mind, I have two questions:
>
> (1) Will Python allow me to create applications that provide a simple 
> GUI interface to something like an integrator for ODEs? Does it have 
> graphics libraries that allow one to animate the motion of simple 
> objects (e.g., spheres, ellipsoids, parallelepipeds, etc.) based on 
> the results of numerical simulations?
>
> (2) If the answers to the above questions are generally "yes," where 
> are some good places to get started learning Python to achieve my 
> goals?
>
> Thank you.
>
> Gary L. Gray
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