Reviews for Programming in Python 3: A Complete Introduction to the Python Language

The average rating for Programming in Python 3: A Complete Introduction to the Python Language based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2017-09-16 00:00:00 Tony Minard A really detailed book about Python 3. It's quite comprehensive although it misses some improvements from later Python versions. Some of the chapters honestly read like documentation and I would discourage you from reading it from cover to cover. It is not suitable for programming beginners since it delves into some technical topics early on and the exercises are focused on getting to know the language rather than ntroducing programming concepts. Also, the chapter about OOP has some horrible examples in my opinion (in what kind of world would you inherit a Circle class from a Point?!)

Review # 2 was written on 2019-06-22 00:00:00 Gordon Fong Started with learn python the hard way (was adapting their code to python 3 by the way of google) and could only suffer that one until it hit OOP. Then I realised i needed a good old textbook instead of something that tries to cover a whole concept by a single example and found this one. This is one of those books you read line by line if you have time to kill and if you do so, it will probably give you a solid foundation. If python is your first programming language, that will be an exhausting exercise as you are learning the common concepts as well as the language so take your time. However for someone who is comfortable with other languages (especially anything OOP) the most efficient way to use is probably skim read the new syntax, list its best practices, learn key differences vs what you know and come back to it as a reference doc whenever you are building your own code and need to know the difference between two particular options. All in all, this book is pretty great if you have the right expectations from it.