Yeah they can be pricey but Head First uses layman's jargon to explain programming. This book should be at Barnes & noble so you could go look at it or read it in store to see if it is worth buying.
yea James. thanks. I wish they had a free version but i suppose $50 isn't bad for a text book?:-)~MIKE~(-:On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 1:21 PM, James Dugger <james.dugger@gmail.com> wrote:If you are new to programming look at
"Head First Programming: A learner 's guide to programming using the Python language" by David Griffiths and Paul Barry.The Head First books take a different approach to learning. I gave this book to my 10 year old son who used it to learn programming and Python.
On Apr 5, 2015 12:24 PM, "Michael Havens" <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:No problem. I am doing it (badly) "... the hard way.":-)~MIKE~(-:On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 12:21 PM, James Mcphee <jmcphe@gmail.com> wrote:sorry for not responding sooner, michael. everyone learns in their own way. if a course is not for you, I can at least point you at how I pick up new languages. what works for me is the old "scratch an itch" process. find something that you want to do, and do it with a language. start small, maybe checking your email or twitter. it's a matter of getting some inertia behind you.On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 11:12 AM, Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:---------------------------------------------------Please expand. How would you recommend I go about to learn this (not in a formal setting)? I can not afford to take classes and because of a head injury doubt I could complete it successfully anyways.In your list I notice you do not mention learning any programming language. Why is that?What do you mean by "OS shell integration"? Is that saying I need to learn BASH as opposed to Python?"string operations must mean BASH....when you say "regular expressions" is this a good resource here? Would I use this with BASH or Python or both?I notice that in http://learnpythonthehardway.org/ there is a section that covers using Python with websites so handling and forming automated web requests is probably covered in more advanced Python tutorials.So to sum it up I think I need to learn Python and BASH. Is this correct? I also need to learn XML, JSON (what do you mean when you say "from xml.dom import minidom ; import json") and SQL:-)~MIKE~(-:---------- Forwarded message ----------regular expressions (import re)string operationsOS shell integration (import os)connecting to and using a database (learn enough SQL to be able to navigate around one here too), learning sqlalchemy will be enough to land you a job in the fieldFor all the pen testing and hacker stuff I went through (7 some odd years ago), here's what you'll want to know how to do, in approximate order of priority:xml and json parsing (from xml.dom import minidom ; import json)
handling and forming automated web requests
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