A good introduction to Python is the recently published book "Beginning Python from Novice to Pro". It provides a quick introduction to Python, skips a lot of the details hard core programmers expect, and has very few samples of difficult to understand lines of code that can easily discourage the novice programmer.
Paul DiRezze wrote: > I'm spending the next two weeks off and I'm looking to take a crack at > learning how to program in Python. Here's a list of the places I've > bookmarked: > > http://www.python.org/doc/ and more specifically > http://wiki.python.org/moin/ > http://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide > http://www.python.org/doc/Intros.html > http://www.python.org/topics/ > > I'm looking for additional resources (links, names of books, > whatever...) that you think may help me out. > > I'm a hobby programmer using mostly BASIC(s) and some Java. I know > procedural programming and I know what encapsulation, inheritance and > polymorphism are but I have very little experience in using them as I've > written just a few Java programs (i.e., I guess I could use a primer in > OO programming). > > Any ideas? > > paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
