[Cialug] Becoming a python expert

Adam Hill adam at diginc.us
Thu Jul 10 13:07:16 CDT 2014


I've helped someone through Code Academy's first few chapters/sections and
it seemed a little awkward for a total beginner with no programming
experience to solo.  It works but I would say it has some pitfalls for
beginners, like the exercise examples being misleading sometimes.

Another couple of good resources:

http://docs.python.org/tutorial/
http://www.diveintopython.net/


On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 12:51 PM, Will <staticphantom at gmail.com> wrote:

> Code academy has a python course as well and free.
>
> -Will C
> On Jul 10, 2014 1:50 PM, "Derek Etnyre" <detnyre at mac.com> wrote:
>
> > Google Python Learn .pdf and there are free books.
> >
> > I like www.lynda.com - they have several python courses.
> >
> > The Iowa python users group web site is: http://www.pyowa.org
> >
> > Derek
> >
> > Sent from my iPad
> >
> > > On Jul 10, 2014, at 12:33 PM, Ralph Kessel <ralphkessel75 at yahoo.com>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > Decided to run python but need resources to learn and web address of
> > python user group.  Any help would be appreciated.
> > > Ralph Kessel
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