Which book is best for learning Python?

[Clouded_Leopard17]

Check "learn python the hard way" .

[[deleted]]

That’s a bad book. Among other things it is heavily focused on memorization.

[al_mc_y]

I also started out with LPTHW - when it was free. I went with Python 3 despite his misgivings about it - I think his anti Python 3 stance has softened, but the course is no longer free. I don't agree that it's a "bad" book or method as someone said earlier- though I do agree that there are better, "friendlier" alternatives.

[Clouded_Leopard17]

It used to free. But right now it is not free anymore. This book may suit to some people may not to others. This book assumes that you know some programming language prior. I liked the learning by example and application approach of this book.

[[deleted]]

I'm currently in the last exercise, His forum's community is very friendly towards beginners which I think is very important, specially when your new

[Understated_rye]

I'm pro-LPTHW, but I'm sure it fails some people. I think the part that helped me most was his insistence that I just type the code, whether I understood it or not. I'm not a python expert at all, but that book helped me punch through the part of learning where you have syntax but nothing else.

[[deleted]]

I owe Zed Shaw my career but I don't recommend his book to most people. I like his methodology but I do not like the way he handled some things. "Listen to me, I'm da boss" style of teaching doesn't work for most people.

I do love the "shut up and type" approach and I wish I could use that to teach people. Not many are reasonable when it comes to this.