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At full speed with Python: a book for self-learners

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Re: At full speed with Python: a book for self-learners

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chrsstrm wrote: post #21

I've used Python sparingly in the past for tooling and helper apps and am now picking it up in a more serious way as I'm working on a Flask API app. I've been reading lots of instructional materials and the one thing that I find lacking across the board is coverage of the toolchain and it's edge cases. For starters, Macs only come with Python 2.X, tell me about installing 3.X and some of the walls I might run into in…

Have you tried 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to Python'? It strives to be exactly this -- a guide on installation, configuration, and usage of the Python runtime and development toolchain.

http://docs.python-guide.org/en/latest/

Re: At full speed with Python: a book for self-learners

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Post by jventura »

neves wrote: post #2

PDF is terrible to read in a Kindle. This book would be much more valuable in a ebook format. Every time I tried to generate mobi files from Tex they were terrible formatted. O'Reilly does it fine with some open source books, but I've never managed to do it myself. Are the good publishing tools for ebooks just avaiable for specialized publishers? Which techniques do you have to convert these Tex books to mobi (the Ki…

I've included a pandoc generated epub at https://github.com/joaoventura/full-speed-python/releases/

Re: At full speed with Python: a book for self-learners

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philliphaydon wrote: post #33

I'm starting to learn Python so I'm super interested in this. However for me the PDF is blurry? I tried in Chrome/IE/Acrobat and the text is blurry for me, anyone else have this problem??

I've just confirmed on a virtualbox installation of windows 7 and it is working fine on Acrobat Reader. It may be a crazy suggestion, but can you reset your computer? I've also made available an epub, so maybe you can use it instead of the pdf..

Re: At full speed with Python: a book for self-learners

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scheveningen wrote: post #31
chrsstrm wrote: post #21

I've used Python sparingly in the past for tooling and helper apps and am now picking it up in a more serious way as I'm working on a Flask API app. I've been reading lots of instructional materials and the one thing that I find lacking across the board is coverage of the toolchain and it's edge cases. For starters, Macs only come with Python 2.X, tell me about installing 3.X and some of the walls I might run into in…

Have you tried 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to Python'? It strives to be exactly this -- a guide on installation, configuration, and usage of the Python runtime and development toolchain. http://docs.python-guide.org/en/latest/

Thanks. I feel like I have read sections of this guide but going back and seeing some of the now relevant section titles, there appears to be some good info in here I could use. I hope I didn't skip over some of these when I was looking for relevant material.
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