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Ugh. Togusa 2018/02/07 (Wed) 17:47:45 No.960

I decided to learn Python. Idk why I haven't decided to use the official tutorial, I found some plain tutorial on Python online (I don't need theory on how stuff work, I know C already) and decided to go with that. It was okay until I noticed some flaws in site itself, then errors in code and finally this.

Chapter about loops, if statement, break/continue. Prime numbers. This guy says that 1 is a god damn prime number.

Fuck this, I'm gonna to go to official docs. No more soykafty FAQs or tutorials.

Maj. Motoko Kusanagi 2018/02/07 (Wed) 18:04:44 No.961

I would like to have a physical book on Python, I don't like ebooks/ereaders/websites when learning something that's longer than a few pages.

But I don't have any money now. soykaf.

Niander Wallace 2018/02/07 (Wed) 18:41:11 No.962

I've learned Python from the official tutorials, they are nice. I did the same for Java, actually. Official tutorials can be nice because they don't try to teach you programming, just the language. Too many books assume they will be the first you read and explain what variables are over and over again. Now that I think of it, the best kind of book to learn a new language would be something like Paradigms of AI Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp, where they just quickly summarize the language and then show lots of very well written, complex, interesting and real programs written in the language. You can learn a lot more about the language from that instead of just rewriting fizzbuzz for the thousandth time.

Mariette 2018/02/07 (Wed) 19:31:07 No.963

>>962
Probably the most difficult stuff for me when dealing with books is importing them (I don't live in US and some of books like SICP weren't translated) and cost of that.

Zhora Salome 2018/02/07 (Wed) 20:48:22 No.964

>>963
Where do you live? I know in Germany we have a lot of translated books/ books written in German.

I learned Python partly by myself with the help of some books from nostarch press (if you like the pdfs I can share them with you). They're very good at explaining stuff in my opinion, the rest I learned in classes.

Zhora Salome 2018/02/08 (Thu) 08:04:22 No.965

>>964
I live in Poland, there are some books translated (like O'Reilly ones, and some by No Starch Press too)

Officer K 2018/02/09 (Fri) 13:46:02 No.970

File: 1518183962598-0.pdf (5.38 MB, pythoncrashcourse.pdf)

>>965
ah, Poland. I assume you know English well enough to learn from English textbooks?

A book by no starch I can recommend is pythoncrashcourse, it gives you a good and solid first step into python, yet it lacks some parts of it. It's good for a beginner to get a 'feel' for it.

I uploaded it for you, I hope you like it and maybe you can get it in Polish :3

Prof. Hodgeson 2018/02/11 (Sun) 12:54:37 No.971

>>970
I know English well enough, I'm already doing the python tutorial from official docs

It's availble in Polish, but I don't think it will be money well spent if official tutorial is good enough

nek 2018/02/11 (Sun) 20:08:38 No.972

File: 1518379718288-0.pdf (6.6 MB, Data Structures and Algori….pdf)

File: 1518379718288-1.pdf (8.17 MB, OReilly Introducing Python….pdf)

>>971