Re: [pygame] Free on-line book for Python/PyGame

[Winter <winter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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