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Re: Book Tour Report [message #75821 is a reply to message #75820]

Fri, 29 April 2011 05:24

Mort Canty
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Registered: March 2003

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Am 29.04.2011 00:40, schrieb David Fanning:
> Paolo writes:
>
>> Python Programming Techniques
>>
>> (this is actually a serious suggestion... but I am not sure
>> how much competition there is in that field for books...)
>
> To tell you the truth, this thought has crossed my mind,
> too. In fact, if I would have had any money to bet on
> what my epiphany would have been on my big hike, I would
> have been heavily on "python" rather than "idl." But,
> the Universe has its own reasons, I guess.
>
> Anyway, Greg Wilson has a wonderful on-line Python
> programming course called Software Carpentry:
>
> http://software-carpentry.org/
>
> I've learned a lot of things there. Greg recently ran
> out of money for his web page, and did the math to see
> whether he could "afford" to write a Python programming
> book from the material he already had (quite a lot!).
> His answer was no, he couldn't afford to do it.
>
> http://software-carpentry.org/2011/04/by-the-numbers/
>
> I thought his words per day figure was way too high,
> and his total days were off by a factor of at least
> two, so it probably would have cost him twice as much
> as he was estimating, so... Bottom line, it's hard to
> write a book. And even harder to write one when you don't
> really know the subject inside and out.
>
> Python Programming Techniques is probably not going
> to make my short list, anyway. :-)
>
> Cheers,
>
> David
>

Right, David. Don't let them tempt you. I've got Langtangen's "Python
Scripting for Computational Science, 3rd Ed." on my bookshelf, and I
sure as heck wouldn't like to have to compete with it.

Mort.

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		Re: Book Tour Report By: Maarten[1] on Mon, 02 May 2011 04:15
		Re: Book Tour Report By: David Fanning on Sat, 30 April 2011 17:14
		Re: Book Tour Report By: Gray on Sat, 30 April 2011 16:58
		Re: Book Tour Report By: Craig Markwardt on Sat, 30 April 2011 13:59
		Re: Book Tour Report By: Mort Canty on Fri, 29 April 2011 06:52
		Re: Book Tour Report By: David Fanning on Fri, 29 April 2011 06:19
		Re: Book Tour Report By: Mort Canty on Fri, 29 April 2011 05:24
		Re: Book Tour Report By: David Fanning on Thu, 28 April 2011 15:40
		Re: Book Tour Report By: pgrigis on Thu, 28 April 2011 14:11

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