[katello-devel] Python books

Eric Helms ehelms at redhat.com
Wed Oct 24 13:23:05 UTC 2012


No personal experience but http://learnpythonthehardway.org/ get's a lot 
of good reviews.  The Python documentation itself is quite good and I 
have found in the past you can learn by googling when it comes to Python.

- Eric

On 10/24/2012 09:15 AM, Lukas Zapletal wrote:
> Instead recommending something, I can give you the opposite.
>
> I have bought Dive Into Python 3 book (Czech translation) the other day
> because I already knew this series are free on the internet and I rarely
> googled its examples.
>
> I have to say its the worst programming book I have ever read about
> Python, very bad in general. Style of text>looks<  like it is funny, but
> it is not. Examples are not good, pieces of working programs are not
> clear for beginners and the whole concept sucks. Also, author goes from
> B to A and vice versa, it is not a tutorial, it is not a documentation,
> it is nothing.
>
> It's just a bunch of long examples with lame text. This guy from Apex NC
> is not good author of programming books, I have to say. Signing this:
>
> http://oppugn.us/posts/1272050135.html
>
> Yes, it's free as in free beer. But it is not good.
>
> LZ
>
> On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 08:12:01AM -0400, David Davis wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Got two questions:
>>
>> 1. Are there any Python books that you all recommend for learning python (preferably for someone who knows how to program)?
>> 2. Does anyone have a Python book I could borrow?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> David
>>
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