Learning Python

[Paul DiRezze]

I'm spending the next two weeks off and I'm looking to take a crack at
learning how to program in Python. Here's a list of the places I've
bookmarked:

http://www.python.org/doc/ and more specifically
http://wiki.python.org/moin/
http://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide
http://www.python.org/doc/Intros.html
http://www.python.org/topics/

I'm looking for additional resources (links, names of books,
whatever...) that you think may help me out.

I'm a hobby programmer using mostly BASIC(s) and some Java. I know
procedural programming and I know what encapsulation, inheritance and
polymorphism are but I have very little experience in using them as I've
written just a few Java programs (i.e., I guess I could use a primer in
OO programming).

Any ideas?

paul

 

[Matt Feinstein]

I'm spending the next two weeks off and I'm looking to take a crack at
learning how to program in Python. Here's a list of the places I've
bookmarked:

http://www.python.org/doc/ and more specifically
http://wiki.python.org/moin/
http://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide
http://www.python.org/doc/Intros.html
http://www.python.org/topics/

I'm looking for additional resources (links, names of books,
whatever...) that you think may help me out.

I'm a hobby programmer using mostly BASIC(s) and some Java. I know
procedural programming and I know what encapsulation, inheritance and
polymorphism are but I have very little experience in using them as I've
written just a few Java programs (i.e., I guess I could use a primer in
OO programming).

Any ideas?

http://diveintopython.org/


Matt Feinstein

 

[hrh1818]

A good introduction to Python is the recently published book "Beginning
Python from Novice to Pro". It provides a quick introduction to
Python, skips a lot of the details hard core programmers expect, and
has very few samples of difficult to understand lines of code that can
easily discourage the novice programmer.

 

[gene tani]

This should be good for a couple weeks

http://www.awaretek.com/tutorials.html
http://www.rexx.com/~dkuhlman/python_101/python_101.html
http://www.rexx.com/~dkuhlman/python_201/python_201.html

http://www.ibiblio.org/obp/py4fun/
http://the.taoofmac.com/space/Python/Grimoire
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/tutor/

http://rgruet.free.fr/#QuickRef

 

[Terry Hancock]

I'm spending the next two weeks off and I'm looking to take a crack at
learning how to program in Python. [...]

I'm looking for additional resources (links, names of books,
whatever...) that you think may help me out.

I'm a hobby programmer using mostly BASIC(s) and some Java.

I learned from "Learning Python" from O'Reilly. There's a new
edition out that covers a somewhat more recent version
of Python (2.3, I think).

I learned BASIC as a teen -- Fortran, Pascal, C, and a bit of C++
later, so I think you probably have a similar PoV to what
I had.

Cheers,
Terry

 

[Jeff Fox]

Lots of links to all levels of tutorials and documentation here:
http://www.awaretek.com/plf.html

Python Podcast too!

 

[Paul DiRezze]

These are all great suggestions.

Thanks to all who replied.

paul

 

[Markus]

I do highly recommend this site, too.
Listen to the python411 podcast shows. It's great.

 

[=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Daniel_Sch=FCle?=]

I'm spending the next two weeks off and I'm looking to take a crack at
learning how to program in Python. Here's a list of the places I've
bookmarked:

http://www.python.org/doc/ and more specifically
http://wiki.python.org/moin/
http://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide
http://www.python.org/doc/Intros.html
http://www.python.org/topics/

I'm looking for additional resources (links, names of books,
whatever...) that you think may help me out.

I'm a hobby programmer using mostly BASIC(s) and some Java. I know
procedural programming and I know what encapsulation, inheritance and
polymorphism are but I have very little experience in using them as I've
written just a few Java programs (i.e., I guess I could use a primer in
OO programming).

Any ideas?

just play a little with interactive python interpreter
this is how I made my first steps

hth

 

[Markus Rosenstihl]

I'm spending the next two weeks off and I'm looking to take a crack at
learning how to program in Python. Here's a list of the places I've
bookmarked:

http://www.python.org/doc/ and more specifically
http://wiki.python.org/moin/
http://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide
http://www.python.org/doc/Intros.html
http://www.python.org/topics/

I liked these to, and the Tutorila from python.org

http://www.byteofpython.info/

http://divintopython.org