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Zed lost his credence. It's hard to take him seriously after what he's said in the past. Besides, the book is rather light on content.
by alexeiz 10y ago
Zed lost his credence. It's hard to take him seriously after what he's said in the past. Besides, the book is rather light on content.
- rattray 10y agoFor those of us who are late to the party, what did Zed say in the past?
- renesd 10y agoIt's actually harmful to point newbies towards his work. There are much better resources that have been proven in practice to work better.
- dfabulich 10y agoSuch as?
- dtornabene 10y agowell, you can go with the actual python tutorial for one. Or the literally dozens of intro to python books put out by No Starch, O'Reilly, Packt, Wiley, etc. You can also go with some of the classics like Swaroops' Byte of Python, or any of the college lecture notes. I hesitate to suggest this, but its worth saying, the book that Zed shit on to launch his little franchise is still actually usable (especially just to read the code examples) and was a much much much better book in terms of pedagogy then his tedious, arrogant offerings.
- throwaway7645 10y agoYea...flipped through Zed's book. It seemed alright, but Python Programming for the Absolute Beginner is an amazing piece of work. Crystal clear, and you get to build fun little text games.
- systems 10y agothink python http://greenteapress.com/wp/think-python-2e/ http://greenteapress.com/wp/think-python-2e/