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Summary: Too much for beginners -- not enough for advanced
Review: The author goes into great detail regarding strings, numbers, lists and and like. In fact, it's so much detail that most beginners might feel overwhelmed. The flip side is that the advanced topics are given less detail than I would have liked. Networking, regular expressions, Tkinter and the like do not get as much attention as I would have liked. I do use the book as a general reference, but I've had to turn to other titles for the advanced topics.
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Summary: I agree with the reader from Menlo Park, CA...
Review: The author's writing style is very similar to Bruce Eckel's. Both authors present somewhat abstract concepts in a clear and concise way that makes reading their material enjoyable. I highly recommend this book for any novice programmer wanting to learn Python. Chun does a good job explaining OOP concepts, so if you only have experience with a procedural language (C, Pascal, etc.)don't worry. If you are a programming expert, purist, guru, or OOP king you may find this book a bit long and shallow.:)
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Summary: Try another book
Review: The main fault of this book is that it is very verbose. The author constantly repeats himself. Whoever edited it did a very poor job. The book should either be shorter/cheaper or have more useful content. Its not a bad book but there must be something better out there. Essential Python and Python Developers Handbook look worth trying.
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Summary: An excellent introduction to Python
Review: This book is an excellent introduction to the Python scripting language. It may be a little slow for you if you are already familiar with other programming or scripting languages, but I think you will still learn some important things.One comment on the 1 star review. Programming does involve math. In order to do really exciting things, math is a must. Giving a book one star because the author uses too many math examples is like rating a movie poorly because the director put too much acting in it.
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Summary: good all around python book - great to learn from
Review: This book is an excellent read for someone new to python but with some other programming knowledge. This was my first exposure to Python (coming from PERL) and I found this book very helpful. The author explains things very thoroughly and intuitively. He writes a lot of prose and not just all code examples, but good explanations also. I found myself reading this most times without a computer in front of me. So by the time I actually sat down and dug into the syntax, I was already very familiar with the basic concepts of the language. It touches on most subjects I was looking for. It may not be for the extreme beginner or as the end-all reference for gurus, but for us in between its just whats needed. this is easily one of the better programming books I've read.
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Summary: Not bad
Review: This is written in the style of Bruce Eckel's books on C++ and Java. If you liked those, then you will probably like this one. Written in an accessible prose style, it covers the language syntax in exhaustive detail. It's weaker on applications, with a thin discussion of GUI and Web programming. If you have programmed in Java or C++, this is not a bad choice (though, personally, I prefer PYTHON ESSENTIAL REFERENCE, which is much terser).
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