Nice thread about where to start with Python :) Anyway, I recently to a look at the sage doc page, and I realized that something had changed (I normally have the docs saved offline). The book "Python Scripting for Computational Science<http://sagemath.org/langtangen.pdf>" by Hans Petter Langtangen!!! Where did this come from??? Are there no licensing issues? The only thing I could find on the net are some password-protected versions of the book. Still, the content looks very nice :)
Cheers, Fabio On Jan 16, 2008 5:20 PM, Marshall Hampton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The von Rossum tutorial is definitely the place to start. For some > reason I don't really like the O'Reilly books on python, even though I > am usually a fan. I found Core Python Programming by Wesley Chun > quite helpful and easy to read; I suppose most sage developers might > consider it dumbed-down but I think it all depends on where you are > starting from. > > cheers, > Marshall Hampton > > On Jan 15, 1:52 pm, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jan 15, 2008 11:35 AM, John Cremona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Thanks for the hints. I did look at "Dive into..." a while back (it > > > is recommended on the Sage website after all) but for some reason did > > > not get on with it (the very frist "complete, working Python program" > > > just left me cold), so I got the basics from the online Puthon > > > tutorial (which I do recommend) and then found those books on the > > > shelf at the place where I work.... > > > > Indeed. I very very strongly recommend the free online Python tutorial: > > http://docs.python.org/tut/ > > This was the first thing I just read cover-to-cover when learning > Python. > > > > William > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://sage.math.washington.edu/sage/ and http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
