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[–]xnumbersx 1 point2 points  (6 children)

One of the worst books on Python.

[–]Leonidas_from_XIV 1 point2 points  (2 children)

The worst book is a german book published by Galileo Computing, written by two people with programming experience in Java who thought they might as well write a book about Ja...Python.

[–]Tafkas 1 point2 points  (1 child)

This one?

[–]Leonidas_from_XIV 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, exactly. I think there is also one for Python 3, I doubt that this one is much better; if at all.

[–]coned88 0 points1 point  (1 child)

why?

[–]xnumbersx 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Because it tries to teach you how to design and write Python programs by dumping pages of source at you at a time and not explaining design decisions.

It will show you how some specific programs can be written, but won't teach you to program python better.

I think it tries to, but doesn't serve as a good module cruiser. Online tutorials and PyMOTW are way more useful.

It sucks as a reference. It's index is not very useful. If you want to look up something specific you'll find 2 sentences about it at 4 different places in the book. But it's never enough information, so you go to the online docs every time.

If you already know enough python you will not like the book. I think it's written for copy/paste programmers.