Opinions on Learn Python The Hard Way

>>59808033
Outdated.
Noone cares about version 2 anymore and you would shoot yourself in the foot if you spend time learning it.

>>59808043
What would you recommend for an absolute noob to start learning Python? Could be anything, links, books, programs whatever.

>>59808074
pirated video tutorials, lynda, udemy, pluralsight... the list goes on.
watch tutorials with real projects, theory is useless if you already know basic c-based syntax

>>59808074
Online book
http://www.diveintopython3.net/index.html

Practical applications of Python for beginners
https://automatetheboringstuff.com/

Official Getting Started tutorial (you might find the text a bit 'dry' opposed to the previous two)
https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/

>>59808074
find youtube video series that doesn't annoy you. I don't know python, prefer php but...

I like Derek Banas. He is good. Fast, doesn't beat around the bush. His videos don't annoy me.
>Learn python in one video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4mEzFDjqtA

https://www.youtube.com/user/derekbanas/videos

If python, he also does Django videos

>>59808043
It's going to be updated for Python 3 soon anyways

Thanks for all the answers, will dive right in.

>>59808177
Check out the derek banas video. You will know the basics in an hour. Not even joking.

>>59808033
Very bad book, "hard way" but begin way easy normal books.

>>59808206
Cool, not OP but need this shit also. Thanks

>>59808043

>no one cares about python 2 anymore

Nice meme.
Most scientific computing is still done in python 2.

>>59808222
He's good at what he does. I prefer php and laravel.
> he does a php in 30min
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TF00hJI78Y

No laravel though. DevMarketer is my goto laravel guy
>https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6kwT7-jjZHHF1s7vCfg2CA

>>59808033
I don't like his stuff. He's a good writer but it seems like he wants to entertain people rather than educate them.

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>>59808234
I'm going into my second year uni of life sciences and we're using python 3 in our programming module. Kinda does suck considering I only know python 2

>>59808234
Isn't like numpy/pandas moving closer to support 3 only? They're already compatible with 3 anyways

>>59809711
If you know Python 2 and you find Python 3 completely different, you are retarded.

>>59809929
Never attempted anything to do with python 3 in my life, I presumed it would be mostly the same but its just slightly Inconvenient having to learn what's different

>>59809929
This. I've reversed engineered a couple of python programs written in python 2 to fit my python 3 based IDE - trust me it was not very hard.