<span style="font-family: georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Thanks for all the suggestions. I have got couple of books I am going to read before I purchasing a physical book.</span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
<span style="font-family: georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">As of now I have:</span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">1. Learning Python (read about 120 pages today and I like it)</span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
<span style="font-family: georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">2. Begining Python (seems ok too, but have not read it yet)</span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">3. Python Programming for absolute beginners.</span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
<span style="font-family: georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">4. Expert Python Programming (not for beginners)</span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><br style="font-family: georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
<span style="font-family: georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">I read "Dive into Python" a bit, but not sure if it is me, but the book directly went into "declaring functions" and "objects", so I put it in the back burner.</span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
<br style="font-family: georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">I hope to be able to write a small program or web implementation in a month or two. Since there are experts in this LUG, I hope you do not mind me asking questions about Python.</span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
<br style="font-family: georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Thanks</span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><br style="font-family: georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
<span style="font-family: georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">-GGR</span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" clear="all"><br style="font-family: georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">--</span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
<span style="font-family: georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Rajiv G Gunja</span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Blog: <a href="http://ossrocks.blogspot.com">http://ossrocks.blogspot.com</a></span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/3/19 Eldon Ziegler <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eldonz@atlanticdb.com">eldonz@atlanticdb.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I'll second "Learning Python" by Lutz from O'Reilly. I used it and now<br>
I'm an expert :-)<br>
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On Wed, 2009-03-18 at 17:36 -0400, Rajiv Gunja wrote:<br>
> All,<br>
> I am thinking of spreading my feet from being a System<br>
> Engineer/Architect to learn Python programming, not for my job, but<br>
> for the sake of learning.<br>
><br>
> Can any of our resident Python experts suggest some books? I have done<br>
> C/C++ programming back in 1996 and I write Shell scripts for my job.<br>
><br>
> Thanks<br>
><br>
> -GGR<br>
><br>
> --<br>
> Rajiv G Gunja<br>
> Blog: <a href="http://ossrocks.blogspot.com" target="_blank">http://ossrocks.blogspot.com</a><br>
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