Hello! PythonAnthony D. Briggs
Hello! Python
by Anthony D. Briggs · first published 2012
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My wife recently began learning python with the book "Hello Python." It seems like a solid intro from what I read. The book uses hunt the wumpus as its starting example. If you combine that with Steve Johnson's excellent Pyglet tutorial[1] you could probably get to writing…
on “Minecraft clone in Python with Pyglet” ↗Read the following books: * SICP - Structure and Interpretation of Computer programs * AOA - Art of Assembly language programming * Hello Python - Think like a computer scientist * The C Programming language - Kernigham and Richie * Pick one more favourite language and a book in it - Rust, Golang, Scala, Java, Ruby, Python, Typescript etc
on “Ask HN: What would you recommend a vibe coder learn about how all this works?” ↗Plug: I'm just in the final stages of finishing an introductory Python book, Hello! Python: http://manning.com/briggs/. It's a bit different, in that I'm using real world projects (Hunt the Wumpus, Django, web scraping, writing games) to demonstrate how to program, rather than just having a…
on “Offer HN: I'll help you learn Python” ↗I'm just putting the finishing touches on Hello Python (http://manning.com/briggs). It's not out in print yet, so I don't know whether it's what you're looking for, but you can get it on Manning's MEAP program. The basic theme of the book is that I replicate…
on “Ask HN: Best Intro Programming Book?” ↗My 11 year old son did not want me to get him a story book. Instead he wanted a programming book, so we bought "Hello Python" by Anthony Briggs from a bookstore. The Amazon reviews for it ended up not so good, so we'll see how it goes: http://www.amazon.com/Hello-Python-Anthony-S-Briggs/dp/19351... Anyway, I've recently read…
on “Ask HN: Which book are you reading these days?” ↗…down and work through the exercises. Similarly, Hello World! is a good book for the complete beginner, but a 17 year old might find it a bit easy. And based on the reviewers who've looked at it so far, Hello Python! tends to do well with relative beginners, but complete novices find it a bit hard, and it annoys the hell out of some experienced programmers - not sure why, I think it's because I don't explain everything…
on “Ask HN: Best Intro Programming Book?” ↗Hello, Python for Scientists and Engineers was the first book I wrote, and the one I still get queries about. It had been out of print for more than a year, but I could never get myself to update it, because it looked…
on “Python for Scientists and Engineers Is Now Free to Read Online” ↗Interesting - I wrote pretty much exactly the same code for chapter 2 of Hello Python, except I build a tree first (by adding each cave in sequence at a random point) and then add some random two-way connections, rather than trying to find islands later. http://manning.com/briggs/ if…
on “Land of Lisp sample chapter available” ↗It's a model that I followed when I wrote Hello Python. The theory being that the way that most of the good programmers that I know learned was by extending their knowledge, not by inhaling massive chunks of information. I'm now reading K&R, and I'm surprised…
on “Blunt and necessary review of programming language books.” ↗This is something that I tried to cover when I wrote my book (Hello! Python). Most experienced devs will have a library of stuff which they crib from to get going, or which solves tricky problems or library issues that they had. Beginners don't have that, so I picked as wide…
on “This is how you actually teach people to program” ↗Manning once offered me the co-authorship of Hello Python for 5% royalties and (unspecified, possibly 0) advance. To collaborate with an Australian co-author in an Australian timezone. I declined. Figured if I wanted to write a Python book I could do it for…
on “Ask HN: Considerations when asked to write a book?” ↗