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Sounds like yet another bit of Technicolor™ douche-buggery to keep university professors employed without doing any useful work.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Yes, I've written another book and I've made it freely available until midnight PST 07/29/2014.
It's a Kindle book available via Amazon, but even if you do not have a device you can read it in your browser.
It's a beginner's Python book and I know many of you are far advanced beyond this, but if you have friends or family who are interested / beginning programming maybe it'll be something they're interested in.
Learn Python, Think Python[^]
If nothing else, at least check out the cover, I think the design came out pretty well.
Thanks,
~Newton
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newton.saber wrote: at least check out the cover,
That's a rather famous image of lightning strike, isn't it? Are you sure it's not copyrighted?
The Python rogramming language
Might want to fix that typo is the description!
Marc
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I purchase all the images from http://fotolia.com[^]. They are royalty free, so once you pay you can use and alter them as you like in accordance with their rules. Prices are very reasonable and purchasing them supports individuals who create the photos, graphics, etc.
It's really a great deal for creating covers.
Thanks for asking, so I could clear this up and I highly recommend fotolia. Really a great service.
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newton.saber wrote: I highly recommend fotolia.
Cool, I'll take a look. BTW, I meant no offense with my question, thanks for answering it.
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: I meant no offense with my question
None taken at all. I'm glad you asked because you never know with stuff like this on the Internet.
Some people "borrow" copyrighted images, etc. without really even understanding.
There are quite a few places to buy royalty free images on the web, but i've found fotolia to be the best deal in the past few years.
The licensing on the images is really great too, because you can use & alter them for products, books etc.
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Marc Clifton wrote: Might want to fix that typo is the description!
Also, I just took a look at that and fixed it. Thanks for pointing that out. 
I hate making little mistakes like that!
I fixed it but it takes a bit for amazon to update.
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Downloaded, thank you, will give feedback when I am free to read it. 
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Thanks very much. I appreciate your time.
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Not a problem, off topic do you know of any good description/instructions for getting Serial Comms working in Python?
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glennPattonPUB wrote: know of any good description/instructions for getting Serial Comms working
Unfortunately, I do not. Is this something for RaspberryPi by chance?
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Well at present No, just trying to add to my armoury. Raspberry-Pi is a little low on my list at the moment (but still there!)...
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I was just curious, because I do have a RPi rev b and it's very nice.
While writing the book I wanted to see if he Python programs would run on the RPi and they did with no changes at all. Just copy them over and run. Amazing really since I'm on a Windows machine.
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The RPi does seem a bullet proof little sucker, I have fiddled with a lot of Single Board Computers but the RPi seems to the easiest to use...
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Wow, great value for price! 
THESE PEOPLE REALLY BOTHER ME!! How can they know what you should do without knowing what you want done?!?!
-- C++ FQA Lite
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CPallini wrote: great value for price
Thanks. I tried to figure out how to make the book cheaper, but couldn't. I guess I could've slipped bitcoin between the digital pages.
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OriginalGriff wrote: So why the marmelising moronic motions can't they do that on the device they are going to send it to?
Wow, I never would've known or suspected they do that to a customer.
Thanks for documenting that and for sticking with it and getting my book.
It's quite interesting and quite terrible they do that.
Technology is so [wonderful/terrible]. Wonderful when done right and abusive when it's not.
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Do you cover Python 2.x or 3.x?
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Thanks for asking, I cover 2.7.8 in this book. Wanted to keep it with the older version, but everything in there should run as is with 3.x since they are simple examples.
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Great. For all the hype, I don't know anyone who actually uses 3.x
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I appreciate that input, because I got the same feeling as I researched which one to concentrate on for the book. It seems that most Universities still focus on 2.x also -- of course you never know because they always seem to be behind the technology curve.
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Nice! I snagged it using the Kindle for PC app, and the book looks great!
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
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Brisingr Aerowing wrote: book looks great
Thanks for the encouraging comment. I really appreciate it.
Thanks for trying out my book too.
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Thanks. I could use this for some stuff I do on linux and maybe some scripting that is supported on some of the medical imaging toolkits I use daily. It will be some time before I read this however. I am swamped at the moment.
John
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