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The first book I read on Python was "A Byte of Python". You can find it on the net. It is free. That book was compact, effortless, useful, but, still, a rather basic intro.
I was looking for a something, which would take me further. We had quite a few Python books scattered around the office. Long story short, I liked none of them. Then I chanced upon James Payne's book, and I cannot praise it enough!! Very well structured, very readable, actually, engaging! Full of useful, clear, elegant examples, it covers a lot of subjects, but not at the expense of basics or clarity. Every new subject, whether it is network or database access, continues to teach you the language itself. It is quite good as a reference too.
It is not for absolutely clueless, but if you have even minimal experience with programming, I bet, you will find it remarkably useful. It is a book Python deserves.
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Customers find this Python book excellent for beginners, providing helpful explanations and covering a wide range of subjects, with one customer noting it goes well into advanced programming tools. Moreover, the book is engaging and has good writing quality. However, customers disagree on the clarity of the content, and several mention it's difficult to read. Additionally, the coding accuracy receives negative feedback, with one customer noting mistakes throughout the example code.
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15 customers mention language learning, 13 positive, 2 negative
Fantastic material, helpful explanations, but I am still struggling when it comes to putting all the pieces together....Read more
A bit out of date, but a very useful introduction for a programmer who already has worked with other languages, and knows the genera terminology of...Read more
This book is great for beginners to get them to a point where they will be comfortable learning advanced topics found in later books....Read more
It's a really good book-covers a huge variety of techniques and fundamentals of python-has a very nice cookbook....Read more
8 customers mention content, 6 positive, 2 negative
This is a good book that covers the basics and works you up to some more complicated topics such as programming sockets, User Interfaces, and a P2P...Read more
...On a positive note, I will say the breadth of topics offered, like GUI's, using Django, and the like are appealing, but this book is not ready for...Read more
...The examples and chapter on classes seemed very poor and assumed a lot, although I felt that way with many of the topics....Read more
...is 20 chapters of learning and 5 chapters of projects. the projects include: -Creating a chat. -Creating video games....Read more
3 customers mention book engaging, 3 positive, 0 negative
...Very well structured, very readable, actually, engaging!...Read more
Love the book is incredibly fun. I program in a Linux computer and this books helps me a lot....Read more
...I don't know why but this book just clicked with me and I was able to get my head around the concepts easily....Read more
3 customers mention programming knowledge, 3 positive, 0 negative
...It teaches you how to program in Unix systems and in Windows systems. is 20 chapters of learning and 5 chapters of projects....Read more
...It gets through the basics and keeps going into basic GUI programming, web CGI programming, multithreading, everything....Read more
...The book is well organized, starting from scratch and goes well into advance programing tools.Read more
3 customers mention writing quality, 3 positive, 0 negative
...Plenty of examples and an enjoyable writing style. Highly recommended!Read more
Although the quality of the writing is good, the book is too incomplete to act as a good introduction while it's organized in a manner that makes it...Read more
...This book can have you ready to write your own applications, but the hardest part will be knowing how to apply what you learn in this book....Read more
9 customers mention clarity, 5 positive, 4 negative
Simple to follow, agile, excellent book, at least for a beginner....Read more
...Still, I found this book to be confusing....Read more
...You can find it on the net. It is free. That book was compact, effortless, useful, but, still, a rather basic intro....Read more
Although the quality of the writing is good, the book is too incomplete to act as a good introduction while it's organized in a manner that makes it...Read more
6 customers mention coding accuracy, 0 positive, 6 negative
This is just not a good book to learn Python. It's full of errors, has faulty code, and even for a 'beginning' book is incomplete in its...Read more
...It is badly in need of a proofreader. In addition to spelling errors, it does not always get the case of letters right -- and Python is case...Read more
...This is unbelievably sloppy. Most of the book is not that bat but despite the length it's still woefully incomplete....Read more
I have found this to be very slow in developing the ideas. Somewhat labours issues, and quite often does not make it clear what is going on - ie...Read more
4 customers mention readability, 1 positive, 3 negative
...update 1/3/2015 The book is really hard to read. Avoid it.Read more
...edition on my laptop and still find the font used for code to be almost unreadable....Read more
...Very well structured, very readable, actually, engaging!...Read more
...If find it difficult to read. I have found a good beginner tutorial [...]. Also, a better book for new programmers is byte of python.Read more
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