Re: Can anyone recommend a python book ?

I highly recommend the Python Tutorial <https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/index.html>, it’s really, really well written I find. Certainly helped me a lot when getting started with Python. It takes you nicely from “command line tool” to programming in Python, I found. If you are used to shell scripting, you will pick Python up in no time. I recon you need just one month to be effective, the rest comes over time as with all programming languages, it’s called experience :)

You can download and print the PDF or other formats here: https://docs.python.org/3/download.html <https://docs.python.org/3/download.html> Then you can still read it on the couch.

You may also want to remember the word “pythonic”, which is how people describe doing certain things by leveraging the Python principles, basically some syntax hacks that makes Python really easy.

Last but not least you will sooner or later also (want to) come across The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Python! <https://docs.python-guide.org/>, which you can buy as a hard copy as well, if you like.

Hope this helps!

Thx,

Gerald Venzl | Master Product Manager
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> On Apr 17, 2019, at 14:33, Dba DBA <oracledbaquestions_at_gmail.com> wrote:
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> My new job does scripting with python. I have a lot of experience with Shell scripting. I also learned Java/C/C++ when I was in school (back 15 years ago). I never learned perl. I don't need an intro to programming book. Learning python will be somewhat painful since I have not done a lot of coding outside of shell and pl/sql in 15 years, however, I expect about 3-4 month learning curve to pick up the syntax to a half way functional level.
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> There is a lot of online info, but I'd like to get a book I can sit on the couch and read and get away from my computer. Can anyone recommend one they found easy to follow?
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> Also, can anyone recommend good python web pages? There are a lot. Any you really like? Any good python forums?

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