Want to learn Python

[Amol]

Hi, I want to learn Python in less than a month which resources should
I use. I prefer to read books . Please give me a list of *recognized*
resources. Thank You all

[jitudon]

On Jun 15, 4:41 pm, Amol <amolj.1...@gma il.comwrote:

Hi, I want to learn Python in less than a month which resources should
I use. I prefer to read books . Please give me a list of *recognized*
resources. Thank You all

http://python.org/doc/

JItendra Nair

[Bruno Desthuilliers]

Amol a écrit :

Hi, I want to learn Python in less than a month which resources should
I use.

Your brain ?-)

(actually, a computer with Python installed on it may help too...)

I prefer to read books .

Books are fine, but won't be of much help unless you actually *code* in
Python.

Please give me a list of *recognized*
resources.

http://wiki.python.org/moin/IntroductoryBooks
=I'd recommand Mark Lutz's books and/or Mark Pilgrim's Dive Into Python

http://wiki.python.org/moin/AdvancedBooks
=the Python CookBook

[Eric]

On Jun 15, 7:41 am, Amol <amolj.1...@gma il.comwrote:

Hi, I want to learn Python in less than a month which resources should
I use. I prefer to read books . Please give me a list of *recognized*
resources. Thank You all

I started here: http://docs.python.org/tut/tut.html

[Joe Riopel]

I am still learning and this is a great resource:
http://diveintopython.org/index.html

You can buy it or read it online for free.

[Simon Brunning]

On 6/15/07, Amol <am********@gma il.comwrote:

Hi, I want to learn Python in less than a month which resources should
I use. I prefer to read books . Please give me a list of *recognized*
resources. Thank You all

One other invaluable resource: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

Cheers,
Simon B.
si***@brunningo nline.net
http://www.brunningonline.net/simon/blog/
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[Evan Klitzke]

On 6/15/07, Amol <am********@gma il.comwrote:

Hi, I want to learn Python in less than a month which resources should
I use. I prefer to read books . Please give me a list of *recognized*
resources. Thank You all

The Apress "Beginning Python" book is the one that I recommend to
people who want to learn the language. I started off with the O'Reilly
book, and that book went too slow and didn't cover as many topic as
the Apress book. If you are an experienced programmer and use the
Apress book, you'll get a pretty good grasp of the language within a
week or so.

--
Evan Klitzke <ev**@yelp.co m>

[Christof Winter]

Amol wrote:

Hi, I want to learn Python in less than a month which resources should
I use. I prefer to read books . Please give me a list of *recognized*
resources. Thank You all

This is an excellent resource:
http://rgruet.free.fr/PQR24/PQR2.4.html

Although it's quite different from a book, I must admit.

Cheers,
Christof

[7stud]

On Jun 15, 11:59 am, "Evan Klitzke" <[e-mail] rote:

On 6/15/07, Amol <amolj.1...@gma il.comwrote:

Hi, I want to learn Python in less than a month which resources should
I use. I prefer to read books . Please give me a list of *recognized*
resources. Thank You all

The Apress "Beginning Python" book is the one that I recommend to
people who want to learn the language. I started off with the O'Reilly
book, and that book went too slow and didn't cover as many topic as
the Apress book. If you are an experienced programmer and use the
Apress book, you'll get a pretty good grasp of the language within a
week or so.

--
Evan Klitzke <[e-mail] m>

I am of the opposite opinion: I recommend that people get any book but
"Beginning Python: Novice to Professional". In my opinion, that book
is horribly written, the examples are terrible, some subjects are only
covered in passing so the info is too parse to be of any use, and
there are no problems at the end of the chapters to work on. I think
a beginner might be fooled into thinking Beginning Python is a good
book because they won't know how many holes their knowledge of python
is riddled with, and since there are no problems to work on, they may
not even realize how little they learned. I think an experienced
programmer would spot all the blunders in the book straight away.

As a result, I often use "Learning Python" as a reference to fill in
all the missing material in Beginning Python, and I wish I had
purchased it initially. It also has problems to work on at the end of
each section. One problem with Learning Python is that it needs a new
edition to catch up with the changes that have occurred in the
language, but it still seems like a much, much better book than
Beginning Python.

The reference book "Python in a Nutshell" is excellent, however its
index is so bad I hesitate to recommend it. A reference book should
have a thorough index--you shouldn't have to hunt through the chapters
trying to find the particular topic you are interested in.

[Jack Crane]

Amol <am********@gma il.comwrote in news:1181907696 .878873.214760
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Hi, I want to learn Python in less than a month which resources should
I use. I prefer to read books . Please give me a list of *recognized*
resources. Thank You all

http://www.pythonware.com/daily/4368043588838810608/

Jack Crane