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Show HN: Crash into Python

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Re: Show HN: Crash into Python

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Post by grncdr »

I've started working on these slides for a set of tutorials I plan to give at $work. As I went on I thought they might be valuable to others, so I added an index page and posted them up. I'd truly appreciate any feedback the HN community could provide me with.

Re: Show HN: Crash into Python

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Post by grncdr »

insraq wrote: post #4

Any chance the author can make a PDF or ePub version? I like to read it on my portable devices.

I'm sure I could, as the sources are just ReStructured Text. I've been meaning to update the index page to have links to non-slide versions of each document as well. If you take the ".s5" out of the URLs they are plain HTML.

Edit: The titles link to normal HTML pages now.

Re: Show HN: Crash into Python

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Post by grncdr »

dorkitude wrote: post #3

Great slides! A QA note: The text spills offscreen and the CSS doesn't allow me to make it readable in Chrome on a 13" MacBook Air: http://drktd.com/9JL2

Thanks, it's odd that didn't work, as I've been working on these on an 11" MBA with chrome. As I mentioned in a reply below, there are also plain HTML versions of the slide sets that might be more suitable for reading.

Edit: Ah, it happens in full-screen. Too much text on that slide then. ;)

Edit 2: Tightened up the wording on that slide a bit. Should fit now.

Re: Show HN: Crash into Python

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Post by jules »

Great documents for getting up to speed quickly! These are the kinds of tutorials I often miss: tutorials that assume that you are already a programmer and go fast. Well done :)

Bug:

    birth_year[1] == 1341 # Raises an exception
should be either:

    birth_year[1] == 1341 # False
or:

    birth_year[1] = 1341 # Raises an exception

Re: Show HN: Crash into Python

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Post by skky »

This is much more helpful than I could have imagined. The writing is concise with solid, insightful examples. I read a few introductory Python texts before (Learn Python the Hard Way etc) that are really a waste of time if you understand programming concepts.

Re: Show HN: Crash into Python

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Post by grncdr »

jules wrote: post #7

Great documents for getting up to speed quickly! These are the kinds of tutorials I often miss: tutorials that assume that you are already a programmer and go fast. Well done :) Bug: birth_year[1] == 1341 # Raises an exception should be either: birth_year[1] == 1341 # False or: birth_year[1] = 1341 # Raises an exception

Thanks for the bug report, fixed now.
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