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 <
phil.waclawski@mesacc.edu>
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 <plug@sonoranzen.com> 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
>>
>>
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