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[.]. I cannot find anywhere on there to download the files that Mike tells you to use. I bought the book and it teaches Python 3.1 which is perfect. automatically redirects to [.]. As anyone else been able to download the files that gives to use.Any help on this would be great.Jeremy The wording and tone Mike uses to tell you how to do something is like he is standing in front of you. The only issue or complaint i have is the website given for each of the examples to download the file does not work.
"Our editorial staff will contact you by e-mail". Once on the web site, the files cannot be found. A phone call to their customer service was unproductive. The book is excellent but all the comments before this one apply to previous editions. Didn't happen. This third edition (Jan 1, 2010) asks the book owner to connect to a web site to download the support files. Those editions included a CD with supporting software and all the programs discussed in the book. The instructions to do this are incorrect as the book now has a new publisher.
I have absolutely zero programming experience, and I could keep up easily with this book. Easy to follow and fun.
Most of the book seems to be in direct speech; the author speaks to you and shows you how it is done. The writing is terse and easy to understand. This makes the book tutorial-like and very suitable for beginners. This book is a very light and easy read. It is not like other technical books where you have to read into every single line and dig out the hidden information.
I wish my other textbooks were as pleasant to read as this one. The language itself if pretty easy, too. I bought this because it was a prescribed text for one of my university classes. I was suprised at how easy it is to read and stay interested in it; the author writes just as if he was standing there teaching you the programming language and he injects his own humour into it.
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