Python Study Group proposal
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walter_mellon
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Another two cents
I feel the need to caution the people who want to use only online tutorials that most are outdated and incomplete at best. While Dive into Python was a good effort for its day, the newest parts are three years old and reflect older styles of Python programming. This is why I recommend getting a recent book. Python has had a lot of important additions since 2.2 which affect the direction of standard Pythonic idioms.
The other tutorials are a little better, but they skimp on the few features they do cover, and are short on examples. You get no real sense of how Python programming has evolved in the last couple of years.
If you are unable to get a hard copy of a recent book, Bittorrent is your friend. Supplement your reading with the tutorials on new features at awaretech.com.
Let me pimp Python for Dummies one more time. This book emphasizes the new features and how to incorporate them. It even has a chapter on using SQLite as a backend. And it costs less that $20 on Amazon.
The videos of presentations from PyCon 2007 will be posted online soon. Check them out to see the Python's latest and greatest.
The other tutorials are a little better, but they skimp on the few features they do cover, and are short on examples. You get no real sense of how Python programming has evolved in the last couple of years.
If you are unable to get a hard copy of a recent book, Bittorrent is your friend. Supplement your reading with the tutorials on new features at awaretech.com.
Let me pimp Python for Dummies one more time. This book emphasizes the new features and how to incorporate them. It even has a chapter on using SQLite as a backend. And it costs less that $20 on Amazon.
The videos of presentations from PyCon 2007 will be posted online soon. Check them out to see the Python's latest and greatest.
I suggest peple to checkout Python Learning Foundation from Python411, the guy is a very big python advocate. He has a Python-related podcast and host a python learning foundation which is a list of links, however he mantains it quite well and take into account that the tutorials are recent.
Alexandro COLORADO
Good to hear from you, JazzDan!
Okay, it appears that settling on one date would be quite a challenge, if not impossible, so who thinks it might be a better idea to have a couple of sessions a week, so that you could choose which one suits you best? Or should we just go on the wiki to post questions or get a forum topic|category set up to handle them?
I'd like to get started pretty soon on this, too. I'll try to make some additions to the wiki, as well. Without an IRC meeting, is there going to be a good way for the group to have Q & A and stay together?
Okay, it appears that settling on one date would be quite a challenge, if not impossible, so who thinks it might be a better idea to have a couple of sessions a week, so that you could choose which one suits you best? Or should we just go on the wiki to post questions or get a forum topic|category set up to handle them?
I'd like to get started pretty soon on this, too. I'll try to make some additions to the wiki, as well. Without an IRC meeting, is there going to be a good way for the group to have Q & A and stay together?
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