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It might sound like a cop-out, but the official tutorial. It's short, it's clear, and it covers more ground than it seems to. I'm a big fan of Dive Into Python
by danohuiginn 19y ago
It might sound like a cop-out, but the official tutorial. It's short, it's clear, and it covers more ground than it seems to.
I'm a big fan of Dive Into Python too, but I'd recommend that for developing good python techniques, rather than getting quickly up to speed.
- scott_s 19y agoActually, I started out with Dive Into Python, because it was showing me this is how to do it in Python. I can already program in several languages (and paradigms), so I wanted to know what the idiomatic Python way is. By doing that, I absorbed some of the important languages concepts and capabilities. I find that I learn best by example; show me what a correct solution looks like, and I'll figure out why it's correct, and hopefully generalize that to the whole language. Once I started doing some Python programming, I jumped to mostly using the online library and language documentation. Disclaimer: I still haven't used Python extensively, but I feel comfortable when I use it.