Learning Python, 3rd Edition by Mark Lutz
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Book Reviews of Learning Python, 3rd Edition
Book Review: Python is easy - well...
Summary: 4 Stars
Python has the reputation to be a language that is easy to learn. Well, why do you need a book more than 500 pages to only learn the language then? The answer is that even if you can learn the basics very fast, it has a lot of bells and whistles that can take time to master.
This book covers only the language not the libraries, but covers it very well. Highly recommended reading once you'll want to use the language to write something bigger than a script of 10 lines.
4 stars only because I would have expected some exposure to the standard libraries as well for a book called "Learning Python"
Book Review: (3rd. ed.)Best way to learn Python
Summary: 4 Stars
I used to say that there were several good books for learning Python. You just had to browse them and choose what works for you. Not anymore. This third edition, along with coverage of Python2.5, adds dark tabs for the exercises at the ends of most chapters, and I think that many people can now learn the language by just trying the exercises and comparing with the answers in the back. The sidebars are interesting. The tables are clear. The examples are instructive. The typesetting is well-chosen. Despite all the materials availabe free on the web, this book is worth the price.Book Review: Good for beginners, the python docs can do equally good
Summary: 4 Stars
Like my title suggests, if you have programming experience and you do not mind or have little trouble reading the Python documentation in a online fashion then its probably not absolutely necessary that you have to buy the book.
However, the author is very good in instilling the nature of Python programming and he's good at getting you to think about the concepts but this book is definitely not a cookbook. Last thing is that it doesn't concentrate on the GUI nor library usage etc as it's mission is simply to teach you about the core of Python
Book Review: Great for beginners
Summary: 4 Stars
I admit i haven't finished the book yet, but i'll give my impressions here. The book is a great source for beginners. If the reader is a experienced programmer on other languages, the first part is somehow a bit of waste of time. It takes a time before the book asks you for doing real code, and for the impatient this is a real draw back. But if it is your first contact with languages like Python or Perl, this is a good book.Book Review: Good introduction to Python, to get you started
Summary: 4 Stars
This is one of the best introductory book I ever read on Python. This is a well-designed, well-written and concise book.
It gives you all the knowledge that you need to write system administration utilities, Internet-related programs and other small applications.
I will recommend this book to beginners to expert level.