Good luck trying to find a decent Python book for beginners. I haven't been able to source Alan Gauld's book yet, (I'm saving for Amazon's shipping... I live in the Antipodes.), but afaik that's about the best one out, if his online tutorial (which I highly recommend Kumar, link at end.) is indicative.
I have the O'Reilly Python in a Nutshell beside me, but it's a reference only, and sometimes a confusing reference. Took me ages to figure out what exactly serialization/deserialization meant in reference to pickling. For my intents, tunring it into a saved thing. Sure, maybe in binary format or something. But yeah, once I'd worked my way through 80% of Alan's tutorial, I found this list, and I'd attribute 75% of my progress since the tutorial to the amazing help I've received here, and the other 25% to messing around in the interpreter or writing code and trying to make it work. Thing is, for people like me, you generally either don't know that a question is a dumb one until someone tells you the answer, (the 'of course' <smack forehead> moment), or until 5 minutes after you emailed your query, you find the answer you were looking for... Kumar, if I may, I have some recommendations for resources to check out. http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld/tutor2/index.htm In my opinion, the best way to familiarise one's self with the fundamentals of Python. http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Browse/Threaded/python-Tutor A searchable archive of the Tutor group http://www.ibiblio.org/obp/thinkCSpy/index.htm A good tutorial on writing code, which happens to use Python Good luck, Liam Clarke On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 09:31:15 -0700, Bob Gailer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 08:27 AM 12/12/2004, kumar s wrote: > >Thank you for clearing up some mist here. In fact I was depressed by that > >e-mail > > I appreciate Alan's response and yours. I forgot that this was the Tutor > list, as I see so many Python e-mails it is easy to get confused. Please > resume seeing this list and me as resources. I regret my comments that led > to your depression. > > >because there are not many tutorials that clearly explains the issues that > >one faces while trying to code in python. > > So what can we do as a community to provide tutorials that help students > like you to more easily "get it". Can you give us some ideas as to what is > missing? Also I 'd be interested in knowing a bit about your academic > background and field of study. Would you give us a brief CV? > > I taught programming for the Boeing Company. I always wondered "what are > these students doing here? Why don't they just read the book?" That's how I > learned almost everything I know about programming. So it can be hard for > me to understand your struggle. > > Nuf said for now... > [snip] > > Bob Gailer > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 303 442 2625 home > 720 938 2625 cell > > > > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > -- 'There is only one basic human right, and that is to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, to take the consequences. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
