Hello, I am not a computer major, either. I am a Linguistics doctorate Student. I worked with the basics of programming (C, prolog...). And now using Python for Natural Language Processing. My interests are probably very different from yours, but I got intimate by Wesley Chun's Core Python Programming.
Tiago Cunha On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 3:18 PM, Knacktus <knack...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Am 11.03.2011 17:12, schrieb Yaşar Arabacı: > >> Hi, >> >> First of all, I want to greet you all since this is the first time I >> will be using this mail groups. >> >> I consider myself being familiar with programming logic, structures in >> general. I do/did lots of PHP programming. I know python and PHP is >> pretty much different things, I am saying this just to show yourself my >> level of understanding on programming. I am not computer major or >> anything, but I am highly interested in. >> >> Today, I decided to make a chat application using python. I have chosen >> python because I know its powerfull and easy to use. The first step for >> me to go should be, clearly, begin learning how to use it :) >> >> My question is, where would you recommend for me to read tutorials, see >> example etc. What is the best approach would be? >> > > The official Python tutorial is a good start. You get familiar with the > Python documentation as well. > http://docs.python.org/py3k/ > (Find the link to the tutorial on this page.) > > A classic and famous tutorial is here: > http://www.alan-g.me.uk/ > If you have any questions about this, you're lucky to be on this list, > because the author of this ressource is very active here. (One of or the > founder of the list?) > > Another classic is "Dive into Python". You can find it easily with google. > There're two versions, Python 2.x and 3.x. By the way, I would recommend > starting with Python 3.2. Some 3rd party libs and web frameworks are not > ported yet, but for your chat app you should be very happy with Python 3.2. > > Recently, a tutorial with a bit of a different style has been finished. I > haven't done it and the style is not my cup of tea, but some people like it > a lot. It's called "Learning Python the hard way". Google for the url... > > Now, welcome to the beach of programming! > > Jan > > >> _______________________________________________ >> Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org >> To unsubscribe or change subscription options: >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor >> > > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor >
_______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
