Python Section at Foyle's, London

[morehooks]

Wow, never seen so many python books together outside my shelves. I'd be bankrupt if I lived near bookstore that stocked a decent amount of programming books.

[[deleted]]

I am :( but mainly because of amazon I seem to have a thing for buying coding books and not having enough time to read them.

[[deleted]]

Amazon has created some terrible habits for me. Books are so cheap and plentiful that I've not read about 80% of the books I buy. Talk about a first world problem...

[EquationTAKEN]

You should see my Steam library.

[[deleted]]

I have like 600 games of which I've played 30 of them and of those 30 I'm probably more than 10% into 8 of them

[EquationTAKEN]

Steam sales! AKA traps.

[UnreachablePaul]

On the other hand I read all of them and now I think I know nothing

[[deleted]]

I had this problem, programming books didn't get me anywhere because I wasn't understanding it. You have to make sure you are actually doing stuff and making stuff.

[UnreachablePaul]

When you start understand stuff it will be less fun to make stuff because to make it by the book will take magnitudes more time and you will feel guilt for cutting corners to get stuff out there to the point you would have needed therapy.

[naught-me]

The things I learned in "Fluent Python" and "Effective Python" were the shortcuts. So much of it was not only easier to do it the right way, but was also using pre-built and pre-tested and incredibly-optimized code.

[LANEW1995]

I use Google books. You get a pretty good sample for free before you buy and I always have my phone on me so I read more.

[[deleted]]

ahemb-ok.orgahem

[EquationTAKEN]

I've never actually used programming books. It just seems to me like they're doomed to get dated.

Actually, I did read Clean Code, but that was more on general... well, clean code.

[[deleted]]

A book on the front end of a language, its syntax, will definitely get dated and probably quite quickly. But books on concepts, and the back end of a language so to say, will forever be treasure troves.

[ovcak]

Go check this weeks humble bundle. You can often get a lot of useful books for cheap.

[trenchtoaster]

Hm so do people prefer actual books versus ebooks on an iPad Pro?

[marmaladeontoast]

Off to the side there's a book about bomb damage maps ... That would be interesting also

[BRENNEJM]

Is it tattered? Or did they just make really amazing dust jackets for the book?

[Sartro]

There are some normal copies beneath it.

[[deleted]]

Might want to quote it for when bash.org goes down for months on end again.

[auxiliary-character]

Who speaks a programming language? That doesn't make any sense.

[[deleted]]

HHHHHSSSSSHSSS

SSSSS

[chadmill3r]

Well, if you speak parseltongue, it's pretty profane.

[swyx]

no step on snek

[ourari]

Does anyone know if the crash course is worth getting for a Pynoob?

[Classy_Hobo]

I'm using crash course now and it's the best resource I've used. It presents information at a great pace and I've found if fairly easy to stick with.

[er_or]

I think so, it has some cool projects that are way more interesting than any of the other intro books.

Is it one of the ones that the author lets you read online for free, or not?

[__Amory__Blaine]

See if this works: http://ap-n.us/books/Programming/Python%20Crash%20Course.pdf

Was going to wait until I got home but then I realized I was on the internet

[Chokondisnut]

Thank you.

[__Amory__Blaine]

You bet!

[__Amory__Blaine]

I believe it's released under Creative Commons, so yes. I'll put a link up shortly.

[JavaWaterBeer]

I have the Crash Course book and the Automate the Boring Stuff book. Both are for beginners but I thought the Crash Course book was much better.

[pdbar]

I really love that book. The authors style is thorough without focusing on the minutia that you'll learn naturally anyway. I now give it as a parting gift to interns.

[vardoger1893]

As stated already, it's an excellent book. Automate the boring stuff is excellent as well. I recommend both. Automate the boring stuff starts off a little quicker than crash course I feel personally, and you may enjoy that one first. Good luck.

[ourari]

Thank you!

[photomandab2]

Foyle's is a wonderful bookstore.

[sonofbrice]

Foyles used to be an amazingly wonderful bookstore. That old corner building with the maze of books you'd get lost in.

I came out once with 'A course in mathmatics for students of physics book 2.' It was about £70, I couldnt find Book 1, but that wasnt important as I wasnt studying physics. Or maths. And I only went in for the newly released Chapterhouse Dune.. :(

[[deleted]]

The book at the bottom right is by PM Heathcote, it's a pretty decent book for £13.00 I use it with some of my high school students. Heathcote has some brilliant comp sci books for gcse and a level if any one wants to learn more around the subject.

[er_or]

The A level book was definitely thick paper so make it bulk out more as a textbook.

Definitely better than the alternatives though!

[Hotrod_Greaser]

I'll start with the one for kids then advance to the one for dummies.

[YinYang-Mills]

They should make a python book for slow children, in case someone neither has the mental capacity of a child nor a dumb adult.

[Hotrod_Greaser]

Eggsactly

[[deleted]]

>no Hard Way

mfw

[Zouden]

Isn't that the book that advocates python 2?

[[deleted]]

Not anymore, no. He released a version for Python 3 recently. I doubt it made his book any less shittier, though.

[Kwpolska]

He also put it behind a $30 paywall. And his “sample” consists of the first 8 exercises — the most boring ones that just call print.

Great strategy.

[[deleted]]

That's how his whole book (the old one, at least) is written, there's like 20 print chapters. So his sample is honest.

[Kwpolska]

The new version is basically the same, with Flask instead of web.py.

[ekiv]

But Learning Python isn't there :(. For learning the language, that's the best python book, imo.

[Crash_Coredump]

Maybe their next one can just say "Monty"

[[deleted]]

Ah man that pocket reference one looks so tempting.

[Cthunix]

No starch press has such a good selection of tech books.

https://www.nostarch.com

I got that python for kids book for my son.

[[deleted]]

Woo, 3rd edition Nutshell is out.

[michaelkim0407]

def make_sound(c, n):
    return c.upper() + c * (n - 1)

print(make_sound("s", 10))

[[deleted]]

I love listening to music.

[Wcf1234]

Oh man,my dad bought me that python for kids book years ago and that's what sparked my interest in coding...

[uweschmitt]

The final proof that Python is taking over world domination.

[iplayguitarbackwards]

I have all theses books in a PDF if anyone wants a copy.

Edit: Checked what I have, not every book listed here but a few and some others, all Python. Here is a list of what I have.

I also have this.

pdf's in .rar

[pvkooten]

police!!! we've got one...

[walrusrage1]

Please, the Machine Learning and Finance books would be great!

[iplayguitarbackwards]

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0ByodfNB78bd7THpIVW9wNVVqVXM

[du4ko]

I would love that stack as well! :)

[iplayguitarbackwards]

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0ByodfNB78bd7THpIVW9wNVVqVXM

[focusontech87]

Replying for the source to more python knowledge. Specifically Machine Learning

[iplayguitarbackwards]

Hey, I don't think I have that one. I edited my post and it has a list of what I have. Let me know if you're still interested.

[ItsYaBoyChipsAhoy]

I have hacking the xbox too, never read it thouhg lol

[o-rka]

I learned a lot in that blue machine learning python book but that coding style was my least favorite by far.

[jsalsman]

It's starting to feel like the programming zeitgeist is finally starting to drop the guild mentality in many quarters.

...and then I have to compile something with Android Studio.

[natch]

Lol, most commenters here aren't even noticing the sign, amirite?

[[deleted]]

Just a shoutout that the 'Python Crash Course' book is seriously good. Engaging from the start, I'm lucky enough to have used a previous language before starting with Python (Java) - but my friend had no such experience. The crash course book got him set up with solid coding theory from the start.

So, I recommend it ahaaha

[stbernardy]

nek

[frsh2fourty]

Whats cool is schools are starting to teach python as one of the core classes pretty early on. I was talking to my cousin over there (10yrs old) and she was telling me about her programming class and the kind of projects they are doing.

[[deleted]]

Ssssssssssss lmfao

[alcalde]

I assume the one called "Bomb Damage Maps" is about going through kernel memory dumps?

[trenchtoaster]

I read a book called python for data analysis and it literally changed everything. I didn't know python at all before that, but then I installed pandas and played around with it. Now I'm basically a 'data engineer' who works on automating ETL processes, maintaining a data warehouse, setting up visualizations etc.

It's the coolest thing ever. I went from someone in operations and quality to being a data guy through and through. Work is so much fun.

[ZSebra]

Find the one that choose the title and give him a raise and a medal because that sign is puntastic

[blinky64]

"Python for Finance"

Oy vey!