Learning Python

Excellent for newbie to expert

I like the book, enjoying it a lot, right about chapter 9 or so; although it is dense and it needs time to digest.Pros:- Very in-depth for 2.x and 3.x, really like how the author tackles subjects.- Clear examples and goes in depth in all of them.- So full of information that I feel I learn more than expected.- Excellent as a reference as well.- Excellent to learn how things really work in python, not a tutorial, not a simple guy, an in-depth killer book.- Good set of quiz questions and also exercises.- Good value for money.Cons:- Can be slightly dense.- Some things are not extremely necessary and going too in-depth can cause the reader to think "when are we writing some code? c'mon".Buy it, have it on your desk.

It is a great book for beginners and not only for them. You could learn many things that they were not expected to learn as a "beginner": sometimes I found it too much "wordy" over all it is not - author says that - it is not a reference manual to be used "in need"; this is a book for learning, and it needs to be studied.

What an excellent and fully document book for starting Python. I do have Python in a Nutshell, but decided I needed to start a little earlier in the sequence. This is a huge book (some 1600 pages) and it is clearly written with lots of tips and repeated warnings of beginners mistakes.It is based on lectures given by the author and feedback from the students. I am proceeding by leaps and bounds and find the code examples excellent. One can, of course, skip any which one does not need to do.I read it on the train to work (despite its size) and find it possible to practise the exercises when I get home. Python is simpler to learn than C or C++ and the structure of the objects is natural. If only I'd structured my exam question as clearly!

First of all this book is massive - it's the thickest paperback book I've ever seen! Despite its huge physical size the high quality print and binding work very well to keep the book usable.As a computing/radio hobbyist I've found this book to be an excellent Python tutorial. Having read it in its entirety I now find the book to be a very useful reference to get me back up to speed when I start a programming project. If you want to move on to more advanced Python Mark's Programming Python makes a great companion to this book.

This is a great reference book for your Python journey. The book is structured in a way that covers a high-level insight into aspects of the language and then provides a more in-depth look into topics should you wish to go deeper into something.

Great book that works as a reference to the language. I find the book perfect when I need to dive deeper under the hood of Python. I do all my personal projects in Pyton3 but still use Python 2.6 at work (CentOS 6.4). The book does a good job comparing both Python versions. In my opinion invaluable at your desk and pdf version in your laptop.

The first thing that strikes you about this book is that it's big. 1500 pages big. Big enough that physically handling the book is inconvenient.Upon reading it, you'll see that much of the size comes from repetition. Many of the chapters present alternative ways to do the same thing, often using this technique as an explanatory device; yet somehow, the author manages the doublethink of continually repeating the Python "There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it" mantra.The order in which the material is presented is wrong. The book explains Python's basic types before its syntax; this means it's 300 pages in before you can actually start writing code that does anything. It's 473 pages in before the concept of a function is introduced; even if this text was written for those who had done no previous programming at all, this seems bizarre. Obviously the sections on types have to talk a little bit about syntax and functions (otherwise you wouldn't be able to say anything about what those types actually do in the first few chapters), which is yet again a recipe for repetition.Exercises are few and far between. There are "quizzes" at the end of each chapter, but they're very simple, knowledge-based questions which don't require you to write code. Programming is learned by doing, so you'll need to invent your own projects to do if you want to learn with this book.If you can ignore the structural defects, the book is beautifully written at the detailed level, and the code examples are of a high standard. It is highly readable - you won't need to continually re-read to understand what's going on - but the repetition means you will find yourself skimming or skipping large sections of the text.The book is a broad overview of a vast language; it is not a detailed API reference, and doesn't have examples of every possible API call. And neither should it be; all that stuff is online. It does explain the concepts well and give you an insight into why Python has evolved to be the way it is. However, if you're an experienced programmer looking for a quick way to break into the Python world, you might want to look for something a little more concise.

I mean, it's gucci and all. It gets technical most of the time but if you're somewhat experienced with python you finna learn sum fr no cap.

Um livro bem profundo na linguagem Python! Todos os fundamentos. Bem completo.

Unnecessarily long, extremely dispersive and cluttered. Sometimes redundant and ripetitive, sometimes surprisingly dismissive.Check David Beazley books instead.

The content of the book is very detailed and I personally found it useful during the learning process. The book came in not so good physical shape. The reason is partly paper quality, mostly though, it concerns packaging which allows the book to move freely inside the box.

Have started learning Python. Found this book to be a good tesource and all concepts are explained in detail.