Great catch Simon, I see your Python for Software Design and raise you Higher-Order Perl by Mark Jason Dominus
http://hop.perl.plover.com/book/pdf/HigherOrderPerl.pdf Dan ... ;-) On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 7:23 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > This was mentioned on the Linux Basement Podcast. > > http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkpython/thinkpython.html > -- > Python for Software Design is a concise introduction to software design > using the Python programming language. Intended for people with no > programming experience, this book starts with the most basic concepts and > gradually adds new material. Some of the ideas students find most > challenging, like recursion and object-oriented programming, are divided > into a sequence of smaller steps and introduced over the course of several > chapters. > > The focus is on the programming process, with special emphasis on > debugging. The book includes a wide range of exercises, from short > examples to substantial projects, so that students have ample opportunity > to practice each new concept. Exercise solutions and code examples are > available from this web site (links are in the book), along with Swampy, a > suite of Python programs that is used in some of the exercises. > -- > > Paper copy is expected Feb 2009. > > Simon. > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying > -- One thing you can be sure of. If you throw a loaded gun in monkey cage, something bad is going to happen. _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying

