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Plug: I'm just in the final stages of finishing an introductory Python book, Hello! Python: http://manning.com/briggs/ http://manning.com/briggs/. It's a bit di
by anthonyb 16y ago
Plug: I'm just in the final stages of finishing an introductory Python book, Hello! Python: http://manning.com/briggs/ http://manning.com/briggs/. It's a bit different, in that I'm using real world projects (Hunt the Wumpus, Django, web scraping, writing games) to demonstrate how to program, rather than just having a laundry list of features and stepping through them one by one.
Think of it as Land of Lisp, but in Python rather than CL.
- edanm 16y agoThat's a great idea. I've thought of writing something like that myself, but with a focus on learning Django (for people who already know Python.) Do you think there is any interest in such an ebook?
- anthonyb 16y agoI would imagine so - although there's a fair bit of Django documentation out there, so you'd need some sort of point of difference in order to compete. If you're serious about it I can put you in touch with someone at Manning. They're always looking for new authors and reviewers.
- inovica 16y agoI took a quick look. As its a paid-book I think it would be useful to have at least one of the exercises open for people to see. I appreciate the introduction is available to download, but the real-world projects aren't (and I understand why) but my suggestion would be to open one of them so that we can see what kind of exercises in real life
- anthonyb 16y agoThat's a pretty good suggestion - from what I can see most other similar books have at least one chapter that you can download. I'll see what I can arrange. Any preferences as to which one? :)
- desigooner 16y agoWeb Scraping .
- inovica 16y agoThanks. Thats enough for most people (including myself) to have confidence in the author and to make a purchase decision. In terms of suggestion I too think web scraping, however it might be worth taking the most simple one so that its easy to run on from the intro.
- jdunck 16y agoThanks for this, I've been annoyed that Python doesn't seem to have a book that's fun for beginners.
- mkramlich 16y agoI was almost the co-author of that book. :) Hi Anthony, awesome to see it coming out! Great job! I'll check it out.