Andrew Purdea wrote: > Hi! what do you guys think that would be the best free book, or tutorial > or something to start learning python? > Something that can also focus on important differences from other > languages, and present why some choices made in the design are better > then others. Not just present the information, but also make it easyer > to understand it ;-) > I have previous programming knowledge (Pascal/Delphi, C, Java, Assembler)
The official tutorial that comes with Python is a good quick intro for programmers. Dive Into Python is available on-line and has much more depth. Those and other good resources are listed here: http://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide/Programmers The Python Cookbook is a good place to learn idiomatic Python. There is an on-line version here: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python You can also hang out on this list or comp.lang.python, that might be the best way to get a sense for what makes Python different. Kent _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
