Book Recommendation

[Anthony Greene]

I'm new to programming entirely, and I'm simply looking for some insight,
can you guys recommend some introductory documentation for me to read, and
what I read, and, do concurrently why reading the primary "book" ou guys
recommend. Thanks, and any advice is great appreciated.

 

[Darren Dale]

I'm new to programming entirely, and I'm simply looking for some insight,
can you guys recommend some introductory documentation for me to read, and
what I read, and, do concurrently why reading the primary "book" ou guys
recommend. Thanks, and any advice is great appreciated.

O'reilly's Learning Python was essential for me. I knew some Matlab
already, but I think it would still be the right place to start. There
is a lot of stuff on-line, but this book helped me get up to speed much
more quickly.

 

[Darren Kirby]

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I'm new to programming entirely, and I'm simply looking for some insight,
can you guys recommend some introductory documentation for me to read, and
what I read, and, do concurrently why reading the primary "book" ou guys
recommend. Thanks, and any advice is great appreciated.

I have found that "How to Think like a Computer Scientist: Python"
(http://ibiblio.org/obp/thinkCS/python/english/) is a very good resource. The
book tries to explain basic programming concepts common to all languages
using Python.

If you are looking for a particular function/statement/module etc then the
official docs are invaluable (http://docs.python.org/). Start with the
tutorial and go from there.

As far as printed books, I have read "Learning Python" [O'Reilley] and
"Practical Python" [Apress]. Both are very good.

But the most valuable resource for learning Python: The interactive
interpreter.

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[Byron]

I have found that "How to Think like a Computer Scientist: Python"
(http://ibiblio.org/obp/thinkCS/python/english/) is a very good resource. The
book tries to explain basic programming concepts common to all languages
using Python.

"How to Think like a Computer Scientist: Python Programming" is an
excellent, FREE book and I would highly that you check it out. I
learned Python this way and would sincerely recommend that you check it
out also.

You can download it for free at:
http://www.greenteapress.com

Byron
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[Paul Rubin]

I'm new to programming entirely, and I'm simply looking for some insight,
can you guys recommend some introductory documentation for me to read, and
what I read, and, do concurrently why reading the primary "book" ou guys
recommend. Thanks, and any advice is great appreciated.

Kind of hard to say. Depends on your general experience level, e.g.
how much math do you know? Some other people have suggested good
books about Python, but those don't say so much about programming in
general. For that, you may need to look to other kinds of books. I
really liked "Software Tools", by Kernighan and Plauger, but it's
about a billion years out of date by now.