Perl books (was: Experience regarding Python tutorials?)
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], SamFeltus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: . . . with (google TMTOWTDI), so Perl will teach you to BE CAREFUL. The O'Reilly Perl books are excellent. Well, no. I understand you writing that, and recognize it's a widespread impression. O'Reilly's Perl catalogue is indeed a notable achievement, with many high spots. HOWEVER, there are over three dozen ORA Perl titles still in print. It's simply not true that they're all of uniformly superior quality. Even among those which are unarguably stylish, several are too idiosyncratic and even self-indulgent to be excellent for a beginner at the level the original poster described as his. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Experience regarding Python tutorials?
Steve wrote: Python is an excellent place to start. Avoid Perl at all costs. There is a new beginners book on Python that looks interesting. It is from WROX (the red cover folks) and called Beginning Python. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0764596543/qid=1125072498/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/002-4477837-1552864?v=glances=books There is also a python tutor newsgroup at gmane (gmane.comp.python.tutor). It's good to be able to learn with other beginner/semi-beginners because you can pick up a lot just by lurking on other people's questions. Joal -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Experience regarding Python tutorials?
There is also a python tutor newsgroup at gmane (gmane.comp.python.tutor). is there a mailing list to which it is gated? randy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Experience regarding Python tutorials?
Randy Bush wrote: There is also a python tutor newsgroup at gmane (gmane.comp.python.tutor). is there a mailing list to which it is gated? randy It's actually primarily a mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED], IIRC). See http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor regards Steve -- Steve Holden +44 150 684 7255 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Experience regarding Python tutorials?
Sorry, that email address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Steve Holden wrote: Randy Bush wrote: There is also a python tutor newsgroup at gmane (gmane.comp.python.tutor). is there a mailing list to which it is gated? randy It's actually primarily a mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED], IIRC). See http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor regards Steve -- Steve Holden +44 150 684 7255 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Experience regarding Python tutorials?
Python is an excellent place to start. Avoid Perl at all costs. There is a new beginners book on Python that looks interesting. It is from WROX (the red cover folks) and called Beginning Python. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0764596543/qid=1125072498/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/002-4477837-1552864?v=glances=books -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Experience regarding Python tutorials?
Cheers everyone, I aim to learn a programming language and haven't yet decided on what's going to be. Here I'd like to hear some voices on where I should start, and pls don't hit me google. I have been doing some research, but I'd like to hear about some real life expiriencies on subject. Is Python maybe a to small target for newcomers? Make it compared to Perl... TIA --- -Linux- -Becouse PC is a terible thing to waste... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Experience regarding Python tutorials?
Shoeshine wrote on 25/08/2005 17:43: Cheers everyone, I aim to learn a programming language and haven't yet decided on what's going to be. Here I'd like to hear some voices on where I should start, and pls don't hit me google. I have been doing some research, but I'd like to hear about some real life expiriencies on subject. Is Python maybe a to small target for newcomers? Make it compared to Perl... Try [http://www.python.org/doc/Intros.html]. There are lots of different-level introductions and tutorials available that should give you an idea of what to expect of Python. -- Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Experience regarding Python tutorials?
Python is a very good place to start. However,Perl isn't a bad place to start either. Perl has a gazillion ways to express yourself. Perl is overly complicated (yet easy to get started with), so you are exposed to numerous ways to think. Perl gives you 8 million different sized and colored ropes to hang yourself with (google TMTOWTDI), so Perl will teach you to BE CAREFUL. The O'Reilly Perl books are excellent. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Experience regarding Python tutorials?
I'd say, start with Python and work yourself into more complex languages. Python teaches you to indent properly, and it is good with being simple, yet powerful at the same time. I'd be happy to teach you the basics with Python. I've taught a few people how to program, and they learn Python pretty quickly, and from that, they are able to get into the programmer's mindset and move on to other languages. As an example, I taught a person how to program in Python over about a week period, and after that he wanted to learn C++. We worked on a small project together, using TCP sockets and such, and eventually he made a savegame editor for some game that he was beta testing all on his own, as well as a Netware NLM that checks backup logs and reports the status to a webserver. Python is good in that it does support object oriented programming, yet it's very easy to pickup on. Also, the builtin interpreter makes it easy to try out your code as you are writing it. There are others out there though, such as Microsoft Visual Basic that do a decent job. But, the nice thing about Python is that you can run your programs on Linux as well as Windows without any (or very few) changes. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
