Reading the Python Official Documentation is rugged (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by ChrisLicht@lemm.ee to c/python@programming.dev

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I am at a high-beginner/low-intermediate level in Python, and one thing that drives me nuts is how poorly I am able to read the Python official documentation and grok how to use the described code.

What's the secret? Are there any guides/videos/books that can help my understand how to approach reading it? Or, is it just one of those things that I need to just keep coming back to while coding, and eventually I will get the hang of it?

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[-] learnbyexample@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago

If you are looking for books, check out:

Intermediate:

Beyond the Basic Stuff with Python — Best Practices, Tools, and Techniques, OOP, Practice Projects
Pydon'ts — Write elegant Python code, make the best use of the core Python features
Python Distilled — this pragmatic guide provides a concise narrative related to fundamental programming topics such as data abstraction, control flow, program structure, functions, objects, and modules

Advanced:

Fluent Python — takes you through Python’s core language features and libraries, and shows you how to make your code shorter, faster, and more readable at the same time
Serious Python — deployment, scalability, testing, and more
Practices of the Python Pro — learn to design professional-level, clean, easily maintainable software at scale, includes examples for software development best practices
Intuitive Python — productive development for projects that last

[-] ChrisLicht@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Python Distilled was a godsend while I was going through CS50P.

I just ordered a stack from your post below. God bless expense deductions 🤓

[-] SANTAS_PASCUAS@mastodon.social 2 points 1 year ago

@learnbyexample @ChrisLicht

From Segovia, we strongly recommend that you buy the book "Intuituve Python". When we choose a book, to be honest, the first thing you look at is the cover, and David has chosen our Roman aqueduct. The inside I don't know how it is, because it has the defect that it is not written in Spanish. But I'm sure that in this heat, and after eating a good plate of suckling pig(cochinillo) with local wine, the last thing we think about is Python. Mañana ya... el interior