I have so many O'Reilly books I used to lear programming and Systems. My first were Learning Perl and Perl Cookbook. While I haven't learned Python, I would think the Learning Python and Python Cookbook would be good books. On Sun, Dec 15, 2019 at 6:31 PM Phil Waclawski wrote: > VS Code is actually not bad (I still can't believe I'm saying this about a > MS product, what is the world coming to?) I have my students use pycharm > (the community version) which is also good. > > There are so many books to learn from, check out packt publishing, they > have a free series that you can access online, if you want to download it > as a file (pdf mobi etc) or a paper book, that will cost you a bit, but not > bad. > > Phil W > > On Sun, Dec 15, 2019 at 5:57 PM AZ Pete wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> I'm interested in learning Python and thought I'd ask the PLUG brain >> trust on some recommendations for books. >> >> My main interest in learning Python is more for data analysis >> (Statistics, AI, etc), not web programming. I'm a SQL Server DBA/Developer >> and recent versions of SQL Server have the ability to run Python within the >> database engine as another avenue for data analysis. I'm also interested in >> moving toward more data analysis/BI roles and Python fits the bill quite >> well. I have 20 years of DBA experience, so I don't necessarily need >> beginner level programming books. But having said that, I have no >> experience with Python at all. >> >> I've found countless video tutorials on Python (Pluralsight, EdX, >> Coursera, etc.), but I still prefer book learning, especially books that >> teach a concept and then give you "homework" assignments to practice. >> >> Any recommendation on Python books for programming (not website stuff, >> though) would be very much appreciated. >> Also, recommendations for an IDE on Windows would be appreciated. I >> already use VS Code for Powershell development, so maybe that will be ok >> for Python? >> >> Thanks, >> Peter >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss