Hello Marty,
You can get a PDF version through the Manning Early Access Program
(MEAP): http://www.manning.com/foord
This is the 'still-some-editing-to-come' draft of all 15 chapters
(updates to the Silverlight chapter and the last chapter on embedding
IronPython plus copy editing still to do). There should be one further
update to the MEAP version (probably soon) and then the book itself will
come out in January.
If you pay for the MEAP you also get the hardcopy version when it comes out.
All the best,
Michael
Marty Nelson wrote:
Great. I was looking for some IronPython books for our developers and
testers, I'll order a bunch.
When is it going to be available?
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Marty Nelson wrote:
Michael -
Is "IP in Action" written for IP 2.0?
Yes.
How much is .Net integration and how much is python coding?
It is a mixture of both. The book aims to be as useful to .NET
programmers coming to Python as it is to Python programmers coming to
.NET.
Chapter 2 is a Python tutorial.
Chapter 3 is an introduction to .NET interop including the basic .NET
types
Chapters 4-6 are on structured IronPython programming - introducing more
Python concepts (like lambdas and properties) along with .NET libraries
like Windows Forms, System.Xml and so on
The rest of the book covers specific topics - testing, advanced Python,
tricky corners of .NET interop, Silverlight, databases, ASP.NET, WPF
etc.
The final two chapters cover writing C# libraries for use from
IronPython and embedding IronPython in C#.
Michael
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To: Discussion of IronPython
Subject: Re: [IronPython] Getting started with IronPython and
Silverlight
Hello Kenneth,
Rob Miles has just made available his book on C# that they use for
teaching the first year of computer science at Hull university. No
idea
what the book is like, but C# is a nice and straightforward language
(despite its B&D approach to typing) so it is easy to learn and the
book
will probably serve you well:
http://www.robmiles.com/c-yellow-book/
For IronPython and Silverlight stuff I *highly* recommend IronPython
in
Action which is apparently an *awesome* wonder of readability and
content:
http://www.ironpythoninaction.com
Other useful resources:
* IronPython Cookbook (recipes and examples)
http://www.ironpython.info
* IronPython URLs (lots of links to IronPython resources)
http://ironpython-urls.blogspot.com/
* My IronPython, Silverlight and Winforms tutorials
http://www.voidspace.org.uk/ironpython/
All the best,
Michael Foord
Kenneth Miller wrote:
All,
I'm just getting started with IronPython and Silverlight, and to
be honest I have not experience with C#. Are there are any basic
tutorials or material that would kick me off on both of these
subjects? I've been fiddling with the the SDL-SDK for a little while
and I've written some basic examples, but I'm still unsure as to a
couple of things. What modules (.Net or otherwise) does the
python.dll
that's distributed with the sdl-sdk include? Can i extend this? If
so,
how? Do I have to use it? How do I do basic operations? I've tried
using CPython's minidom, which doesn't seem to exist and imports from
System.Xml fail. Can I print to the terminal when using Chiron? Can I
set pdb traces?
I'm currently running the sdl-sdk on OS X ontop of Mono, with pretty
good success.
Thanks for all the help!
Regards,
Ken
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