Python Newbie

[linuxfreak]

Hi all,
I came accross this article by Eric Raymond in which he has sung
peans about the python language. Well that has whetted my appetite...
So I decided to get down and dirty. But alas I got down but not dirty..
i cant seem to find a good tutorial to help me get started. Whats the
next best thing to do? Ask the pros and where do you find them...in a
mailing list of course. So heres me asking if anyone has any pointers
to some good basic python tutorial. Something that teaches one to get
going.
Thanks a ton guys,



Linuxfreak

 

[Simon Brunning]

Hi all,
I came accross this article by Eric Raymond in which he has sung
peans about the python language. Well that has whetted my appetite...
So I decided to get down and dirty. But alas I got down but not dirty..
i cant seem to find a good tutorial to help me get started. Whats the
next best thing to do? Ask the pros and where do you find them...in a
mailing list of course. So heres me asking if anyone has any pointers
to some good basic python tutorial. Something that teaches one to get
going.

http://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide

 

[TechBookReport]

Hi all,
I came accross this article by Eric Raymond in which he has sung
peans about the python language. Well that has whetted my appetite...
So I decided to get down and dirty. But alas I got down but not dirty..
i cant seem to find a good tutorial to help me get started. Whats the
next best thing to do? Ask the pros and where do you find them...in a
mailing list of course. So heres me asking if anyone has any pointers
to some good basic python tutorial. Something that teaches one to get
going.
Thanks a ton guys,



Linuxfreak

Take a look at Dive Into Python (http://diveintopython.org/), it's a
great place to start (there's a review of it here:
http://www.techbookreport.com/tbr0103.html).

 

[rdsteph]

You might want to take a look at my page listing over 200 pythonic
tutorials by category.

http://www.awaretek.com/tutorials.html

 

[Mitja]

So heres me asking if anyone has any pointers
to some good basic python tutorial. Something that teaches one to get
going.

The official tutorial is quite informal yet effective:
python.org -> documentation -> tutorial

 

[johng2001]

The usual order I recommed is ...

http://honors.montana.edu/~jjc/easytut/easytut/
http://www.ibiblio.org/obp/thinkCSpy/
http://docs.python.org/tut/tut.html

Ron's list is quite a good place for tutorials
http://www.awaretek.com/tutorials.html