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That is totally different from my book :) I haven't read it so I can not tell how much different it is from mine. Perhaps you can tell if you have read it?

by yasoob 11y ago

iheartmemcache 11y ago
I was right about to buy it, completely blind, based on the similar title, because a good deed deserves a good deed: I support anyone who gives their book away for free online and offers a hard-copy (Learn You a Haskell, I'm looking at you) for purchase. Let me know if you have an Amazon affiliate link, tipjar, or need help with any projects. Edit: whoa, at least 5 redditors had the same "do you have a paypal?" sentiment. I suggest you have a header on visit and start collecting opt-in emails. That way, people like me will be emailed the second you get all setup. Edit 2: Also, this definitely is a good "resume" for consulting work. I'd put an "Available for Hire/Retainer" notice at the header of every page, in case someone has an overflow of work, and/or a corporate manager wants a flexible contractor asset available as an insurance policy for behind-schedule projects. Don't charge less than 150/hr in 20 hour blocks per month for retainer work (use it or lose it), and 175ish/hr for active work.
- c4obi 11y ago
  https://leanpub.com/intermediatepython https://leanpub.com/intermediatepython author here.. Did you get to take a look at the book? It is actually free of charge on Leanpub
- yasoob 11y ago
  You guys can donate me if you want to by buying the donation version of Intermediate Python from [@gumroad](https://gumroad.com/l/intermediate_python https://gumroad.com/l/intermediate_python) :) It is only for $10 but if you want to pay less then kindly let me know (pm) and I can give you a custom link. Cheers!
p1esk 11y ago
I think your book goes for breadth of topics while his primarily focuses on solid understanding of iterators, generators, and decorators. p.s. I only looked at the "Enumeration" page in your book, and I don't think it belongs in an "intermediate" level Python book. The use of optional arguments makes little sense to me (not something I wanted to know about Python after I learned the basics). I'm sure other chapters have more relevant content though, and I appreciate your effort.
- heyalexej 11y ago
  I consider myself somewhere in the spectrum between beginner and intermediate and I use enumeration quite often. I picked it up early on in a tutorial by Andrew Montalenti (founder of http://www.parsely.com http://www.parsely.com and quite active in the Python community) and use it ever since instead of wrapping it into another loop like beginner tutorials teach you. For example if I need to read in a file with 5 million lines but for debugging or performance optimization reasons want to break the loop after 1K lines.
  - p1esk 11y ago
    All beginner tutorials I used introduced "enumerate" early on. Indexing is probably the first thing you're wondering about when you start coding in Python after coding in C.

That is totally different from my book :) I haven't read it so I can not tell how much different it is from mine. Perhaps you can tell if you have read it?

by yasoob 11y ago

That is totally different from my book :) I haven't read it so I can not tell how much different it is from mine. Perhaps you can tell if you have read it?

iheartmemcache 11y ago

I was right about to buy it, completely blind, based on the similar title, because a good deed deserves a good deed: I support anyone who gives their book away for free online and offers a hard-copy (Learn You a Haskell, I'm looking at you) for purchase. Let me know if you have an Amazon affiliate link, tipjar, or need help with any projects. Edit: whoa, at least 5 redditors had the same "do you have a paypal?" sentiment. I suggest you have a header on visit and start collecting opt-in emails. That way, people like me will be emailed the second you get all setup. Edit 2: Also, this definitely is a good "resume" for consulting work. I'd put an "Available for Hire/Retainer" notice at the header of every page, in case someone has an overflow of work, and/or a corporate manager wants a flexible contractor asset available as an insurance policy for behind-schedule projects. Don't charge less than 150/hr in 20 hour blocks per month for retainer work (use it or lose it), and 175ish/hr for active work.

c4obi 11y ago
https://leanpub.com/intermediatepython https://leanpub.com/intermediatepython author here.. Did you get to take a look at the book? It is actually free of charge on Leanpub
yasoob 11y ago
You guys can donate me if you want to by buying the donation version of Intermediate Python from [@gumroad](https://gumroad.com/l/intermediate_python https://gumroad.com/l/intermediate_python) :) It is only for $10 but if you want to pay less then kindly let me know (pm) and I can give you a custom link. Cheers!

p1esk 11y ago

I think your book goes for breadth of topics while his primarily focuses on solid understanding of iterators, generators, and decorators. p.s. I only looked at the "Enumeration" page in your book, and I don't think it belongs in an "intermediate" level Python book. The use of optional arguments makes little sense to me (not something I wanted to know about Python after I learned the basics). I'm sure other chapters have more relevant content though, and I appreciate your effort.

heyalexej 11y ago
I consider myself somewhere in the spectrum between beginner and intermediate and I use enumeration quite often. I picked it up early on in a tutorial by Andrew Montalenti (founder of http://www.parsely.com http://www.parsely.com and quite active in the Python community) and use it ever since instead of wrapping it into another loop like beginner tutorials teach you. For example if I need to read in a file with 5 million lines but for debugging or performance optimization reasons want to break the loop after 1K lines.
- p1esk 11y ago
  All beginner tutorials I used introduced "enumerate" early on. Indexing is probably the first thing you're wondering about when you start coding in Python after coding in C.