Reviews for The Quick Python Book

The average rating for The Quick Python Book based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2013-03-08 00:00:00 Walter Stinnett Better learn Javascript; Python is crap for some things. I've seen Python backend guys argue if they are going to have a tuple or an object for something going straightly from database to JSON response and this is just what all Python is about - "trying to do it right" instead of "getting it done". Software development is getting more and more Agile-ish and Python doesn't really fits Agile processes. Having said that, wonderful combination of introduction to the language as well as a second pass that goes into all things Python in-depth. I particularly enjoyed the author's suggestions regarding Python style, programming and testing practices, and sage advice in the big finish: the Zen of Python. It won't turn me into a Pythonista, but it provides a good start.

Review # 2 was written on 2015-04-26 00:00:00 Mark Zimmerman This book is best suited to someone with little formal education in computer science. The author often uses colloquial terms and longer expositions rather than formal & precise ones, probably in an attempt to make the book more accessible to programming amateurs. I won't fault that choice, except that it made the book considerably more verbose and less definitive than I'd have preferred. Frankly I've found no intro Python book that fills that bill, so again, so again, no demerits for Harms' book on this point. As a result, I stopped reading at about the halfway point and switched to the free "Python 3.4 Tutorial" written by Guido von Rossum. At about 102 pages the PDF is considerably more terse than Harms' book, but Rossum's willing use of precise CS terms manages to introduce me (30 years in the business) to yet another programming language as quickly and efficiently as possible.