Comments on: Thout Bytes http://www.swaroopch.com/blog/thout-bytes/ Conning people into thinking I'm intelligent. Since 1982. Mon, 01 Dec 2008 19:27:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Swaroop C H http://www.swaroopch.com/blog/thout-bytes/#comment-721 Swaroop C H Mon, 28 Mar 2005 01:54:45 +0000 http://swaroop.textdriven.com/archives/2005/03/22/thout-bytes/#comment-721 <p>Hi Blake, thank you for your valuable comments. Those are interesting topics indeed. It has started some thoughts...</p> Hi Blake, thank you for your valuable comments. Those are interesting topics indeed. It has started some thoughts…

]]> By: Blake Winton http://www.swaroopch.com/blog/thout-bytes/#comment-720 Blake Winton Wed, 23 Mar 2005 19:37:03 +0000 http://swaroop.textdriven.com/archives/2005/03/22/thout-bytes/#comment-720 <p>I'm not Mr. I, but I'ld like to see stuff on generators, list comprehensions, decorators, lambdas (quickly, while they're still in the language! ;), metaclasses, extending, embedding (and the limitations thereof), and when and where you would use these things.</p> <p>Doing some case studies on well-designed (or perhaps poorly-designed, for the humour value, and because it's often more useful to see what doesn't work, so as to know what to avoid) applications written in Python would be a good advanced book topic as well, if potentially inflammatory. Perhaps going through the standard library and critiquing its design would be recieved better.</p> <p>A book dedicated to writing a compiler for Python 2.4 that output Java bytecodes could be a fascinating read, and would touch on many advanced topics. Along those lines, python versions of the algorithms in the Knuth books, along with commentary, might also be useful for the advanced programmer.</p> <p>Or you could aim for the professional programmer, and show how to use Python in a commercial setting. How it interacts with version control, how to slip it in to your organization under the radar, that sort of thing. (I, for instance, got Python in the door by using it to build tools to help our build tools. My boss didn't care, as long as I provided him an .exe that worked.)</p> I’m not Mr. I, but I’ld like to see stuff on generators, list comprehensions, decorators, lambdas (quickly, while they’re still in the language! ;), metaclasses, extending, embedding (and the limitations thereof), and when and where you would use these things.

Doing some case studies on well-designed (or perhaps poorly-designed, for the humour value, and because it’s often more useful to see what doesn’t work, so as to know what to avoid) applications written in Python would be a good advanced book topic as well, if potentially inflammatory. Perhaps going through the standard library and critiquing its design would be recieved better.

A book dedicated to writing a compiler for Python 2.4 that output Java bytecodes could be a fascinating read, and would touch on many advanced topics. Along those lines, python versions of the algorithms in the Knuth books, along with commentary, might also be useful for the advanced programmer.

Or you could aim for the professional programmer, and show how to use Python in a commercial setting. How it interacts with version control, how to slip it in to your organization under the radar, that sort of thing. (I, for instance, got Python in the door by using it to build tools to help our build tools. My boss didn’t care, as long as I provided him an .exe that worked.)

]]> By: Swaroop C H http://www.swaroopch.com/blog/thout-bytes/#comment-719 Swaroop C H Wed, 23 Mar 2005 18:25:09 +0000 http://swaroop.textdriven.com/archives/2005/03/22/thout-bytes/#comment-719 <p>Mr. Inquisitive: I started writing this book nearly 2 years ago when I was looking for a good online book and I didn't like the existing ones.</p> <p>I am interested in hearing what you would like to see in an 'advanced' python book?</p> Mr. Inquisitive: I started writing this book nearly 2 years ago when I was looking for a good online book and I didn’t like the existing ones.

I am interested in hearing what you would like to see in an ‘advanced’ python book?

]]> By: MR. Inquisitive http://www.swaroopch.com/blog/thout-bytes/#comment-718 MR. Inquisitive Wed, 23 Mar 2005 18:22:30 +0000 http://swaroop.textdriven.com/archives/2005/03/22/thout-bytes/#comment-718 <p>Why do we need yet another introductory book on Python? There are already so many out there, and several are free online books.</p> <p>Does anyone ever think about writing an ADVANCED python application book ?</p> Why do we need yet another introductory book on Python? There are already so many out there, and several are free online books.

Does anyone ever think about writing an ADVANCED python application book ?

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