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Title: Practical Python by Magnus Lie Hetland ISBN: 1-59059-006-6 Publisher: APress Pub. Date: 06 August, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (8 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Does humor belong in Python?
Comment: I am currently working on a project which involves a software tool for energy benchmarking. Up until now I have been using an interpreted language (which will go unmentioned, I don't want to start a flame war). Although this language is good for a lot of things, it was becoming increasingly difficult to use it for my project. I felt that the project was getting too big to maintain the code in a orderly way. For a while I have trying to port the whole shebang to C++, but it felt like trying to kill a mosquito with a cannon (like in that Monty Python sketch). My search on the wonderful worldwide web confirmed what I already knew, I should try to use Python for my project (read 'why Python' by Eric Raymond for instance). After dabbling around with tutorials and the like I thought it was time to buy a real book. I came across 'Practical Python' by Magnus Lie Hetland pretty soon and downloaded a sample chapter. After reading this I just knew this was the book for me. It's well written, it has good examples and is written with humour. Humour, I think at least, is important but very personal and Hetland manages to find a good balance between humour and 'serious' coding. The examples are clear and especially noteworthy are the projects which are in the last part of the book. This is practical! Once you mastered the language you can use your knowledge in real applications. The book reads like a Stephen King novel. Exciting, you want to know what's on the next page before you go to sleep (if you can sleep...).
Overall this book is a winner. I would like to recommend it to everyone who wants to learn Python and have a nice time reading it also. I know that I did!
Rating: 2
Summary: Left wondering
Comment: I'm really starting to wonder about these whole Amazon review system. I mean, these reviews so far reflect nothing about what I've personally found this book to be. All of those things sound strikingly like advertisements as opposed to honest feedback. I doubt this Amazon thing is worth anything anymore, but whatever. This book was dry, drab and incomplete in many ways. It never delivered what it promised. I can't say I'm a beginner at Python, so perhaps that was the problem. But I'd stay away from this book and perhaps look at one of Oreillys titles.
Rating: 5
Summary: Clear, extensive, and entertaining
Comment: I bought this book because I went through the author's online tutorials at his website (www.hetland.org). I enjoyed his writing style there and thought the book should be good as well. The book is even better than I had imagined an introductory programming text could be. I have been dabbling with learning Python for a while now, so the basics of the language and of programming in general were known to me. This book helped expand that basic knowledge quite a bit. It really brings together what I had read in other beginning-level books, and even explains some things that the others neglect to.
If you have little to no programming experience, this book can help you. If you are an experienced programmer in another language, this book can help you. If you already know Python, this book can still teach you a few things. And true to the Python culture, it is a good read with humor injected throughout.
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Title: Python Cookbook by Alex Martelli, David Ascher ISBN: 0596001673 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 15 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Text Processing in Python by David Mertz ISBN: 0321112547 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 02 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: Python in a Nutshell by Alex Martelli ISBN: 0596001886 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: March, 2003 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: Learning Python, Second Edition by David Ascher, Mark Lutz ISBN: 0596002815 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: December, 2003 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: Python Web Programming by Steve Holden ISBN: 0735710902 Publisher: SAMS Pub. Date: 08 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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