On Fri, 14 Dec 2012, boB Stepp wrote:
This is obviously not a directly python-related question; however, I
do believe that it would be of interest to many aspiring programmers
who are diligently learning python on their own.
So, through self-study, I would like to be able to acquire the
knowledge I would need to become a competent designer and programmer,
using good software engineering practices. Now I could go online and
look at typical courses taken by those pursuing software engineering
or computer science degrees and even come up with the textbooks that
such courses use. But I would have no idea of how well-suited such
textbooks would be for self-study. So my question is what would be a
sequence of books to acquire the knowledge I would need that are
especially well-suited to self-study? I may be asking for the
unanswerable, but I am hoping to be pointed to some good texts for my
future studies.
Rather than simple self-study, why not take advantage of the offerings by
such folks as Coursera, Edx, or Kahn Academy?
They all have free courses in programming and software development that
require a large degree of self-motivation (after all, you didn't pay
anything for it so you don't have the same drive as regular college), but
it has the added benefit of hundreds, perhaps thousands of other active
participants who are also learning at the same time.
*Most* of the Python books that I've read are at least as well-suited to
self study as any of the rest of them. Although, my own personal
experience is that contributing to this list has done more to help me
really understand the basics of Python and development than anything else.
HTH,
Wayne
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