Learning Python, 3rd Edition by Mark Lutz
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Book Reviews of Learning Python, 3rd Edition
Book Review: great book for beginners
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a great book for all of those who are new to programming and to python, it includes some tests to see how you are progressing, If you're a beginner is the perfect book but if you already have some knowledge and want to improve it, i'am not sure this is for you.Book Review: Great book!
Summary: 5 Stars
This book is great! Good writing, good exercises. Good for people who have some experience in programming. If you have never had any contact to other languages or logic, consider studying some introdutory topics before reading this book.Book Review: An excelente introduction
Summary: 5 Stars
That's it. If you want to learn Python, it's a great place to start. Be sure to follow up with Programming Python, by the same author.Book Review: Great Book
Summary: 5 Stars
Great book and great seller. I have no programming experience and have been picking this up rather easily!Book Review: Good book for starting python
Summary: 4 Stars
This book has about 30 short chapters that focus on introducing a small piece. The author does not assume much experience, and tries to provide a clear explanation of each topic. The book is divided to 7 parts that cover a certain aspect, such as classes or modules.
The examples are mostly small, and very often for the interactive shell rather than as stand alone programs. The author states that this book was written as a learning tool, rather than as a guide to producing real life programs. For that, he guides readers to his follow up book, programming python (which I have not read).
One shortfall was the confinement of exercises to the end of parts (which often have 5 or so chapters) rather than at the end of each chapter. This approach might be alright considering the level of material covered, but I think it would be helpful to have more exercises.
In general, I think this is a good starting point to python, but probably needs to be followed by other books for actual production.