Reviews for Beginning Python (Programmer to Programmer)

1. Introductory text

   Rated 3 out of 5 stars, January 12th, 2010

   As you can guess from the name this is an introductory text. Check out Summerfield (Programming in Python 3) and Lutz (Learning Python) for reference texts. As an introduction the book does a good job. It is structured coherently and flows well. The writing style needs some improvement but if you can gloss over that then this book could be for you.

2. Beginning Python - a great book

   Rated 4 out of 5 stars, November 12th, 2007

   A great, and challenging, book to start with...even better if you've a few months or a year or so experience of Python. I'd been using python as a useful utility language for straightforward data processing jobs for around a year and found parts of this book fairly hard (REST and web services for instance). But it's worth the effort...if you don't use the info you still have a much better overview of the language which means you're more likely to find a solution when you need it. I've moved on to python 2.5 which has things like ElementTree for xml and Sqlite for sql...and I'm still coming back to this book regularly. It's a real introductory text book, not a "lite" introduction. I'm still impressed.
   A.

3. This is not for dummies

   Rated 4 out of 5 stars, June 12nd, 2007

   This is not a book of the series "Python for Dummies"
   You've got to have some know how in programming language to get along with this one. If you don't know what OO is then the level of dificult will be high. If you know about Java, C, PHP and others then Python will be as easy as any of those.
   
   So, if you are a completly beginner on computer programming and aim to learn Python you'll need to try hard and try it again. Make all the examples and try again and you'll achieve your goal, but be aware, you can't learn Python in 24hours or in 21 days... but you can't learn Java or any other language in 21 days either.
   
   I consider this a good book as others from WROX and o good introduction to Python.

4. Beginning Python

   Rated 2 out of 5 stars, March 12th, 2006

   I thought nice price and good title but I am finding the content really boring and hard going. I have other wrox books which I have found good but I wish I had purchased another beginning python book. You really have to be prepared to work at this book the information does not come easily.