On 05/10/2007, John Penney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On a completely different topic, FYI, the ACCU general mailing list has > an interesting thread at the moment about "Books and language for the > first time programmer". There's considerable support for Python as a > first language, you'll be pleased to hear! Interestingly however, > no-one's been able to recommend a book for the novice programmer that > uses Python.
There's "Learning Python" by O'Reilly which comes out revised at the end of the month, and a few others, but honestly I can't voucher for any of them... maybe somebody else her knows? cheers Giacomo > > John > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Giacomo Lacava > Sent: 02 October 2007 22:34 > To: [email protected] > Subject: [python-north-west] notes post-meeting (with links! in > cinemascope!) > > > Thanks to everyone who dared the terrible football-induced traffic (next > time I'll check the Old Trafford fixtures first!) to attend the first > PNW meeting. We had a very nice chat on several topics, from Zope to > PyQt to Twisted, and of course the django presentation (which I uploaded > at http://groups.google.com/group/python-north-west/files > in PDF and ODP). > > I guess next time I have to advertise the free munchies ;) The room was > excellent and people at MDDA were extra-kind. > > Feedback was good enough that I might try to make it a fortnightly event > if we have speakers, so if you know someone who might be interested in > giving a short talk, or if you stumble on some cool software, just drop > me a line! > > If you want to present but don't feel like travelling all the way to > Manchester, we could do it in another city as well (Leeds? > Liverpool?). Or we could do it "the Brummie way" and alternate talks and > socials. > > What do you think? > > Cheers > -- > Giacomo Lacava > > > > > > -- Giacomo Lacava --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post: [email protected] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Feeds available at http://groups.google.com/group/python-north-west/feeds For more options: http://groups.google.com/group/python-north-west -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
