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I'm Ryan Lowe, a Software Engineering graduate living in Ottawa, Canada. I like agile software development and Ruby on Rails.
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A Little Light Reading
I've picked up a few books recently: Python in a Nutshell Python seems to be a very interesting scripting language. I'm glad I got the nutshell book even though it has very few examples ... I know enough languages to be able to piece things together without a book telling me step-by-step how to write Hello World. There is literally tons of Python code out on the net too. I might try to do tetris (yes again - it's my favourite hello world game - I did it in Pascal and C#) with the pygame libraries. The Linux Kernel book I got to try to stretch my technical limits and get into something different. I've done OS and file system classes and have been keeping up with the Linux kernel mailing list summaries. Don't get any crazy ideas though, I probably won't be hacking in C++ again any time soon. The last book was recommended by Scoble and others recently. I thought I'd see what the fuss was about. That, and large software companies are interesting .... but it seems like Microsoft and IBM are the only ones that get written about well. Posted at July 08, 2003 at 11:36 AM ESTLast updated July 08, 2003 at 11:36 AM EST Comments
Hi Ryan. I'm curious—how does Python in a Nutshell compare to diveintopython.org? I'm ALWAYS tempted to go running into Barnes & Noble and pick up a tech book. It takes me a few minutes (usually standing in line for a Frappuccino®) to realize that a number of free resources are available online for the books I want. The kicker is I just don't have enough time to read them :-( » Posted by: Ken Walker at July 11, 2003 05:06 PMI guess it's just me, but I prefer dead tree versions. I look at a monitor too much to sit and read at one ... also dead tree reference books can sometimes be faster if you know your way around them. And, you don't have to be online to use them either. :) I haven't read diveintopython.org yet, but I'll let you know. » Posted by: Ryan at July 15, 2003 01:11 PM |
