Jorgen Grahn wrote:
On Thu, 2010-01-07, Peter wrote:
[...] depending on your
application domain, I liked:
1) Hans Petter Langtangen: Python Scripting for Computational Science
A truly excellent book, not only with respect to Python Scripting , but
also on how to avoid paying license fees by using opensource tools as
an engineer ( plotting, graphing, gui dev etc ). Very good , pratical
introduction to Python with careful and non-trivial examples and exercises.
Sounds good.
Regarding the book's title: is it just me, or are Python programmers
in general put off when people call it "scripting"?
I won't attempt a strict definition of the term "scripting language",
but it seems like non-programmers use it to mean "less scary than what
you might think of as programming", while programmers interpret it as
"not useful as a general-purpose language".
I'd probably say that in "scripting", convenience is more important than
speed.
You don't need to create a project, just put the code into a file and
then run it.
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