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Twisted Network Programming Essentials 11 reviews
Abe Fettig
O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2005
THIS BOOK IS TWISTED!!!!
+ Good read
+ Twisted Programmers must have
Are you a developer who wants to start building applications using twisted? If you are, then this book is for you! Author Abe Fettig, has done an outstanding job of writing a book that contains lots of examples of working code, with thorough notes and explanations of how you can use Twisted to do ...
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Python Programming: An Introduction to Computer Science 26 reviews
John M. Zelle
Franklin Beedle & Associates, 2003
Best Intro to Computer Science
+ Excellent introductory book, but not advanced
+ Oustanding Python and CS Intro
+ excellent instructor resource
+ Introduction to Computer Science using Python by John Zelle
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Web Component Development with Zope 34 reviews
Philipp von Weitershausen
Springer, 2007
Excelent material
+ Must have!
+ If only I bought it earlier
Very good book about Zope3. Clear conceptual explanation of the tecnology and easy to understand examples. I'm very impressed with zope3.
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Beginning Python: From Novice to Professional (Beginning: From Novice to Professional) 1 review
Magnus Lie Hetland
Apress, 2005
A great introduction for programmers and beginners alike!
+ Beginning Python
+ The best for learning Python
+ Great book
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Dive Into Python29 reviews
Mark Pilgrim
Apress, 2004
Quick approach
+ Quite reasonable reading
+ good dive
Although this book is only a quick approach to python it makes the reader have a good background to continue learning python on itself.
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Python Cookbook37 reviews
Alex Martelli, Anna Ravenscroft, ...
O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2005
Worth the money
+ i cook a lot
+ A great edition
This is the only Python book I've seen to date which provides detailed and practical examples of metaprogramming idioms, and it gets five stars for that chapter way in the back alone. The chapter on sockets programming also made me laugh since Guido seems to be incredibly proud of what I personally ...
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wxPython in Action22 reviews
Noel Rappin, Robin Dunn
Manning Publications, 2006
wxPython In Action
+ gui programming on the go
+ Great for getting you started
Simply awesome. Awesome cubed:
(i) wxWidgets is a wonderful thing - a cross-platform windowing
toolkit that uses native widgets to give extremely pretty
cross-platform GUI applications.
(ii) wxPython is a fabulous implementation of wxWidgets in Python,
taking advantage of various Python ...
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Rapid GUI Programming with Python and Qt (Prentice Hall Open Source Software Development)9 reviews
Mark Summerfield
Prentice Hall PTR, 2007
Excellent for Beginner and Professional
+ Great text book
+ Great PyQt Book/Only PyQt Book
+ great book. I recommend
+ Just, excelent
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Foundations of Python Network Programming (Foundations)15 reviews
John Goerzen
Apress, 2004
Interesting book
+ Helpful for this beginner
+ A Good Book
+ A Gem of a Book (with minor flaws)
+ Python networking
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Rapid Web Applications with TurboGears: Using Python to Create Ajax-Powered Sites (Prentice Hall Open Source ...18 reviews
Mark Ramm, Kevin Dangoor, ...
Prentice Hall PTR, 2006
Read once for the content, keep open as a reference.
I use this book daily. The book is a great read and walks the reader through many of the complexities of modern web-app development in a clear and easy style. Though there are plenty of gotchas throughout the book, the errata site has most of them nailed cold. The clarity of thought and insight ...
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Programming Python2 reviews
Mark Lutz
O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2006
A great resource for the python programmer.
The only thing I regret about buying this book is not getting the hardcover version - it's a huge, comprehensive book.
It's got the best section on GUI programming in python that I've seen so far, and all the examples given throughout the book are practical, useful thing - unlike a lot of other ...
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Beginning Game Development with Python and Pygame: From Novice to Professional (Beginning from Novice to ...11 reviews
Will McGugan
Apress, 2007
solid introduction to pygame
+ The Pygame Library
+ Very good book for beginners
Ch3-6 provide a nice introduction to the basics of writing simple programs in pygame. The example code in these chapters was clear and effective at demonstrating the particular topic. Overall this book was helpful to me in developing a pygame centric design flow for the programs that I am writing. ...
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Data Crunching: Solve Everyday Problems Using Java, Python, and more.12 reviews
Greg Wilson
Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2005
Short, Informative, Useful and Clear
+ good data-handling cookbook for a beginner
+ An overview of parsing and mining data with python.
+ A clever guide to extracting the data you need
+ It's about using the right tool for the right job
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Game Programming With Python (Game Development Series)10 reviews
Sean Riley
Charles River Media, 2003
I just love it ...
+ Not for the beginner, but a fantastic source for pros
+ masterpiece of python and game programming
+ Very good introduction to game coding
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Python & XML3 reviews
Christopher Jones, Fred Drake
O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2001
Good Coverage of Python XML possibilities
+ Great coverage with some typos
I really liked this book because I was able to quickly start using XML with Python. I tried to use the package docs, but they were often hard to read, and didn't fill me in on the background stuff I needed to know. The examples in this book were easy to understand, and easy to see how to make ...
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Text Processing in Python18 reviews
David Mertz
Addison-Wesley Professional, 2003
If you need to process text, this is a great book!
+ A very good intro book
+ Instant Classic
+ And now for something different...
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Python For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech)) 6 reviews
Stef Maruch, Aahz Maruch
For Dummies, 2006
Good transition from Visual Basic
If you have programmed at the level of Visual Basic, or perhaps Excel macros, then this book is perfect for you. It's a pleasure to read -- with its variety of visual aids. In many books, the graphics just clutter the page. Not here. The concepts pop out at you and burn themselves into your ...
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Learning Python, 3rd Edition124 reviews
Mark Lutz
O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2008
Great book!
+ Good for beginners, the python docs can do equally good
This book is great! Good writing, good exercises. Good for people who have some experience in programming. If you have never had any contact to other languages or logic, consider studying some introdutory topics before reading this book.
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Game Programming with Python, Lua, and Ruby (Game Development) 4 reviews
Tom Gutschmidt
Course Technology PTR, 2003
nothing about how to program the game itself
Its really a shame that most beginning game programming books use C++ or some obsure languages like unheard of flavors of BASIC and ignore the prevelence and ease of use of modern scripting languages. This book is not for beginning programmers, it just introduces these 3 scripting languages and ...
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Data Crunching: Solve Everyday Problems Using Java, Python, and more.12 reviews
Greg Wilson
Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2005
Short, Informative, Useful and Clear
+ good data-handling cookbook for a beginner
+ An overview of parsing and mining data with python.
+ A clever guide to extracting the data you need
+ It's about using the right tool for the right job
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