There is a brilliant new book (albeit somewhat advanced) that I don't see in this list: Introduction to Python for Econometrics, Statistics and Data Analysis (2014) by Kevin Sheppard. PDF available for free here: https://www.kevinsheppard.com/images/0/09/Python_introductio...
Wouldn't a curated list be much better? We can all type "python programming" on amazon and get a pretty similar list of books. It is not interesting. What is interesting is to know which book to read.
Whoring for amazon affiliate money would be fine if he were making recommendations based on knowledge and experience, but this is just plain whoring for change regardless of its impact on readers.
A bad programming book can set you back by wasting your time. These books might not be bad, but how would he know, without reading them?
Agreed. So many times I've wished there was either a high-quality, curated list (by pro Python programmers for new-to-intermediate Python programmers) or a place where such books are reviewed by pros.
Three books later, I still don't really feel like an "expert" with Python. I mean, I know the syntax well enough, I know basic programming idioms, I just need something of intermediate complexity to work on, somewhere between "Learn Python From Scratch!" and the Python Standard Library. Coming from a C background, I don't need to be told what most of these concepts are, I just need to know how Python does them.
I also made the mistake of trying to learn several languages (e.g. Java, Javascript, and Python) simultaneously, and by poor choice or poor availability of free materials, nearly all of them ended up being along the lines of these "Learn X Language with no programming background!" The end result being if I have to hear someone tell me again what an "if" statement and a "for loop" are, my head is going to explode.
To reiterate, where does one look for an Intermediate level Python book?
This is a collection of real world python projects written in 500 lines or less.
https://github.com/aosabook/500lines
The goal was to be a resource for intermediate python developers to be able to look at real world applications. Hope this helps.
That's a great idea. I've recently started browsing through some of the top-voted questions and answers at http://codereview.stackexchange.com/ to see how coding / scripting can be improved.
Edit: After browsing through the list of projects, I found three which were both interesting / useful to me and (just about) within my abilities:
* Guido van Rossum’s web-site crawler
* Ned Batchelder’s template engine
* Malini Das’ simple Continuous Integration system
Could you go a little bit more into detail what exactly you are looking for? As in, what don't you know right now that you expect to learn from the book?
This is great. I notice a ton of these came out within the last year. I wonder if the advent of so many colleges switching to Python for CS 101 is driving a surge of new titles.
