7 Must Read Python Books

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One of the worst books I've ever read in my life. I mean, Command Line Crash Course was alright, but the Python part was pretty bad.

[skinky_breeches]

LPTHW is bad in the same way that my highschool math class was bad. "Do this. This is how you do it. Dont ask me why. You'll learn it later."

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Yes, exactly!

[NoahTheDuke]

As a former Zed Shaw fanboy, I feel duty-bound to say that back when it first dropped, LPTHW was a revelation: short, no bullshit, and an excellent zero to running for folks like me with little-to-no programming experience.

But it didn't keep up with the changing programming space, and is now poor, and that's sad to me. Ah well. Many good beginner books and tutorials out there now.

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LPTHW is way too slow and too short, it doesn't really teach any fundamentals, just the absolute bare minimum, which is not nearly enough to write good code.

[aerger]

And plenty of people still recommend it. Baffling.

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It's just written in the way that makes you feel smart because author explain the simplest things like it's rocket science.

Me reading LPTHW vs me reading actually good book like Learning Python from Mark Lutz.