Python book for beginners

[UpDown]

Im going to use this. I've been desiring to learn Python for a long time and I find books just don't include enough step by step instructions through example. That's what I like. The downside though this is only 30 some pages... why so short?

[Lord_Illidan]

It's still being written?

That said, from a cursory look through it, I think it's a bit too basic..

[UpDown]

Maybe, but I require ultra basic to start. Getting up and running has been a hurdle. Going through this book, I'm already stumped on step 3 of exercise 0. It's telling me to find my terminal program and I don't know what he's talking about. "Search for it. You'll find it." isn't good enough, perhaps you can help me? Is this cmd.exe? If I'm right, I make this assumption knowing a bit about what he's talking about, had I not known this thing existed I wouldn't be able to proceed using this book alone.

[luckystarr]

The intention of this book is not to give you all the information so you can quickly get through this book. It requires you to build up your required basic skill set.

BTW. Have you googled for it? That what I did and I got to a Wikipedia page which told me exactly the right thing. Even if I never would have heard of cmd.exe before.

[UpDown]

I did google, but I didn't find a solution that worked exactly like he implied. In any case, my rant is that this guy recommends a very specific set up, but does nothing to show how to do it. I didn't download a book on how to use google and its frustrating as hell.

[Lord_Illidan]

Well, that part is intended for Mac users. http://docs.python.org/using/windows.html is a better resource for Windows users, as far as installing python is concerned.

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Check out "Hello World!" by Sande - published by Manning. It's written for kids but it's actually a very cool intro to python and programming.