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Re: [pygame] Free on-line book for Python/PyGame
For what it's worth, I'm a big fan of Dr. Craven's work.
I know I don't have any established cred on the list. But I'm a
longtime *Nix administrator, shell and Perl and C programmer, and
general tinkerer. I've been using Python for the past year and worked
through a previous version of his course. I thought it was good stuff.
My learning path was thus:
- just hacked through Python for a while, reading the docs and
blundering about. Playing around. No serious work.
- Zed Shaw, Learn Python the Hard Way
- Magnus Lie Hetland, Beginning Python from Novice to Professional
- A more thorough read of the docs at python.com
- Paul's pygame text (a PDF file, I think from last year's classes)
And now beating on pygame wiki spammers with a stick. Oddly enough,
poring through the wiki to find spam led me to really read the pages.
Although I did *cough* remove a false-positive link from the resource
page (Sorry Lily).
To sum up, I'd gladly buy Dr. Craven a whiskey.
Winter
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On 6/12/2012 9:56 AM, Paul Vincent Craven wrote:
Check out:
http://cs.simpson.edu/cmsc150/
It is an on-line text I wrote for my first semester college course in
Python. It includes text, video, and on-line quizzes.
It also includes a cookbook of example code:
http://localhost/index.php?chapter=example_code
I'm spending this summer updating the text and adding more quizzes and video.
Paul Vincent Craven