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Re: Learn Python The Hard Way 2nd Edition Released

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Post by ltamake » Mon, Jun 27, 2011, 6:50 PM UTC

Just bought a copy for my iPad. I look forward to reading it!

Re: Learn Python The Hard Way 2nd Edition Released

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Post by nin_appa » Mon, Jun 27, 2011, 6:51 PM UTC

Has the book "Learn C the hard way" released yet?

Re: Learn Python The Hard Way 2nd Edition Released

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Post by jerf » Mon, Jun 27, 2011, 6:53 PM UTC

rubergly wrote: post #23

Does anyone know of any good books for people that are proficient with Python and want to learn more about the language and come closer to being an expert? The idea of LPTHW has always seemed cool, but I've looked at the table of contents a couple of times and thought "huh, 80% of these topics seem trivial to me"; maybe I could still benefit by skimming through and reading anything that I don't already know. Also, it…

With no sarcasm intended, carefully read over the Python manual, sentence by sentence, every so often. You'll learn something each time for quite a few iterations. Things that seemed a mass of pointless double-underscores will start to make sense.

Plus, you can't understand the solution until you encounter the problem. Reading the language manual every so often after you've encountered more problems is often enlightening. I've been working through the bash man page this way for years. (It's taking me a while because I don't really do much shell scripting, so I don't encounter very many problems that I need solutions to.)

Re: Learn Python The Hard Way 2nd Edition Released

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Post by jolosan » Mon, Jun 27, 2011, 7:54 PM UTC

Now on exercise 15! Best US$1 I've ever spent so far! Thanks Zed!

Re: Learn Python The Hard Way 2nd Edition Released

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Post by ChikkaChiChi » Mon, Jun 27, 2011, 7:57 PM UTC

I just picked this up on AppSumo. I'm coming from PHP and C, so this will be a nice chance to try out Python.

Re: Learn Python The Hard Way 2nd Edition Released

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Post by telemachos » Mon, Jun 27, 2011, 10:01 PM UTC

nin_appa wrote: post #32

Has the book "Learn C the hard way" released yet?

There's an open Git repo for it[1], but so far it's quiet. (Stick the repo's RSS feed into your favorite feed reader to see when it updates.)

[1] https://gitorious.org/learn-c-the-hard-way

Re: Learn Python The Hard Way 2nd Edition Released

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Post by malabar » Mon, Jun 27, 2011, 10:08 PM UTC

Thanks Zed, I just bought the epub for my kindle. I am going to give it a go.

Re: Learn Python The Hard Way 2nd Edition Released

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Post by listic » Mon, Jun 27, 2011, 10:37 PM UTC

RexRollman wrote: post #27

sigzero wrote: post #19

I am doing all of it with Python 3. So far, very little needs changing to make the examples work. Very clean and concise. Thanks Zed.

So this targets an earlier version of Python?

Yes, and for a reason. Python 3 is still not widely adopted [sic].

Python 3 Wall of Shame: http://python3wos.appspot.com/

Re: Learn Python The Hard Way 2nd Edition Released

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Post by cvg » Mon, Jun 27, 2011, 11:16 PM UTC

Planning to buy the paperback. While checking out the paperback info, I noticed that the pdf is still free on lulu.

Re: Learn Python The Hard Way 2nd Edition Released

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Post by cantbecool » Mon, Jun 27, 2011, 11:37 PM UTC

This reminds me of Ruby on Rails Tutorial by Michael Hartl. I love the idea of the book being online in HTML for free, but you can pay for a better learning experience: screencasts, PDF files, and online training courses.