I concur whole-heartedly. I really enjoyed Luciano's talk at the PDX Python event night and immediately got Fluent Python afterwards. I haven't gotten all the way through it but so far I think it's a great book for taking people from "good Python programmers" to "excellent Python programmers."
As an aside, I'd also like to remind people that the Portland Python Users Group works with O'Reilly and that you can get a 50% discount off of eBooks and 40% off of print books (including Fluent Python) by using the discount code PCBW on their site. -Bracket On Sat, Aug 22, 2015 at 9:41 AM, kirby urner <[email protected]> wrote: > Followup: > > I really enjoyed both talks Luciano gave at OSCON. > > My college-age daughter is deeply into using Arduinos and such for serious > science [1] and is studying Python both in her college and through O'Reilly > where I work. I wrote to her about Pin.go right away. > > As a perk of my job I also get Safari Books On-Line where Luciano's new > O'Reilly book, Fluent Python, has recently appeared. I'm finding it really > useful and apropos given my day job as a Python mentor. Lots of details > I've wanted to study up on but as too lazy to do so, are now succinctly > summarized for me, such as how hashing works and the relationship of > __hash__ and id etc. > > I've always been impressed by the emerging Pythonista subculture in Brazil > and Luciano reinforces my admiration. Two OSCONs ago I hung out with Tatia > from Brazil, who's dad is a professor of literature. She was really > excited by my i18n focus and hopes of getting more of our own curriculum in > Portuguese in a way customized for Brazilian mentors. > > Kirby > > > [1] http://earlham.edu/news/article/?id=37371&r=14619 > (that's my daughter holding the microphone) > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > http://mail.python.org/pipermail/portland/attachments/20150822/61250ff5/attachment.html > > > _______________________________________________ > Portland mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/portland > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/portland/attachments/20150822/31ede8cd/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Portland mailing list [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/portland
