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Top 6 Free E-Books On Python

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Monday, September 02, 2013 Python is quite a popular language and a perfect language for first time programmers. EFYTimes.com has compiled a list of beginner’s books. And, don’t think they are available for free so they’re not good. In fact, some of the books listed here have been used in various courses including MIT’s Introduction to Computer Science and Programming…

 

1) A Byte of Python

A Byte of Python is for learners by Swaroop C H. “If all you know about computers is how to save text files, then this is the book for you,” describes the site. The book has been used in various academic programs, including the above mentioned UC Davis course, and by the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The book is available for both Python 2.X and 3.0, but only the 3.0 version is recently updated. You can get a hard copy also.

2) Learn Python the Hard Way

Learn Python the Hard Way is for beginners, which is written by Zed Shaw. This book aims at teaching you the three most fundamental skills that a beginning programmer must know: Reading And Writing, Attention To Detail, and Spotting Differences

3) Non-Programmer’s Tutorial for Python

Non-Programmer’s Tutorial for Python 2.6 and on-Programmer’s Tutorial for Python 3 are from WikiBooks. You can get the older versions and some versions in Korean, Spanish, Italian and Greek from http://jjc.freeshell.org/easytut/. The guide is for those having no programming experience.

4) Python Programming

Python Programming is another WikiBooks guide to Python and one of the books of the MIT course mentioned above. This book explains Python, an open-source general-purpose construed programming language. Python has distros meant for Apple Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, BSD, web browser environments (NCLab, Sage) and several other platforms.

5) The Python Tutorial

The Python Tutorial refers to the official tutorial from the Python project, which is used in the MIT course..

6) Think Python

Think Python: An Introduction to Software Design was authored by Allen B. Downey- an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering. The book is available in numerous formats, such as a hard copy. It was originally written before Python 3.0, but has been updated with footnotes to describe inconsistencies.

 

Source: http://www.efytimes.com/e1/fullnews.asp?edid=114909



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