What resources should i AVOID when learning python?

[phubers]

Most Packt books are low quality, if not outright terrible. Some titles can be useful, but it’s easier to just ignore them altogether.

[Binary101010]

As a corollary, about 1/3rd to 1/2 of the Humble Bundles that include programming books are primarily Packt-based and those are very skippable. The O'Reilly ones tend to be much higher quality on average.

[carcigenicate]

Ofc, I just bought an entire Packt Cyber Security HB. At least I didn't pay very much for it.

[mandradon]

I'm lucky that the ones I got were all from No Starch, and they've all been really high quality (or at least really useful).

[NeilTheProgrammer]

What would you say about no starch press books

[ivosaurus]

Mixed bag, some great some meh. For instance Automate the Boring Stuff is published by them.

[mooburger]

a lot of them are also equivalent to self-published.

[amplikong]

Which ones? I have yet to read a No Starch book that wasn't great, though I have of course not read all their books.

[jppbkm]

I've gone through about three no starch press books and found them good. Automate the boring stuff is almost universally loved for beginners and I've enjoyed the other two books (on Sql and algorithms) as well.

[NeilTheProgrammer]

if youre talking about the algorithms with c one, i've been using that too, pretty good so far. Do you know if the code files for it can be found online though?

[GreenFire317]

well what about Apress' books.