Reviews for PYTHON PROGRAMMING

The average rating for PYTHON PROGRAMMING based on 2 reviews is 5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2017-03-24 00:00:00 Keith Kaiser 4.5 stars This was one of the best books for beginner programmers I've seen. First, it is not a Python introduction book, it is a programming introduction book. There is a huge difference between the two. Many books targeted at beginners don't take into account that some concepts are hard to grasp and miss some crucial explanation with the examples they give. Not this one. Zelle introduces hard concepts at a good pace and has nice examples to go with them. And he also introduces Computer Science and a bit of software design to go with this book. Many introductory books skip the GUI part of programming and stick with CLI programming, which I think is terrible. Because the back end of a program is not as much fun to write for beginners. Writing an app that beginners can show it to others makes a great sense of accomplishment and is an ego boost which in the end, makes programming more fun. This book, on the other hand, starts graphical programming even before it talks about lists! Which is great in my opinion. The only problem is that it uses a custom module that the author prepared for this book specifically. Which made me skip most of the GUI parts because I didn't think they would benefit me in the long run( because I'm trying to learn Kivy and it is very different from Tkinter). Yet this minor issue aside, I recommend this book to anyone who doesn't have any prior knowledge of programming. It might be a good read for professionals too, but not as much.

Review # 2 was written on 2014-06-12 00:00:00 Frederick P. Sill Shame it only covers Python 2. I think there is a Python 3 version out now but not sure. A very good teaching and reference book.