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For any student or professional interested in learning the fundamentals of Python
In this one-of-a-kind video package, leading Python developer and trainer Wesley Chun helps you learn Python quickly and comprehensively, so that you can immediately succeed with any Python project.
Just click and watch: One step at a time, you will master Python fundamentals. If you already have Python experience, these videos will help further develop your skills. The lessons start with an introduction to the core features of the Python language, including syntax basics and standard types and operations. The lessons progress into advanced topics, such as Python’s memory model and object-oriented programming.
This LiveLessons video course closely mirrors the topics covered in its sister publication, Core Python Programming, Second Edition (Prentice Hall, 2007). As in the book, viewers will find review questions and coding exercises at the end of each lesson in the video booklet to test the material introduced in the video and printed parts of the lesson.
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For any student or professional interested in learning the fundamentals of Python
In this one-of-a-kind video package, leading Python developer and trainer Wesley Chun helps you learn Python quickly and comprehensively, so that you can immediately succeed with any Python project.
Just click and watch: One step at a time, you will master Python fundamentals. If you already have Python experience, these videos will help further develop your skills. The lessons start with an introduction to the core features of the Python language, including syntax basics and standard types and operations. The lessons progress into advanced topics, such as Python’s memory model and object-oriented programming.
This LiveLessons video course closely mirrors the topics covered in its sister publication, Core Python Programming, Second Edition (Prentice Hall, 2007). As in the book, viewers will find review questions and coding exercises at the end of each lesson in the video booklet to test the material introduced in the video and printed parts of the lesson.
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Format:Paperback
I have purchased a number of the livelessons series for quick introductions to various programming languages and am a big fan of this accelerated learning approach. Unfortunately this one does not do the Livelessons series nor the Python language justice at all.
At is mostly death by powerpoint with no live lessons at all, defeating the main objective of this series and even has audio outtakes still edited in, where the lecturer growls out loud to himself.
Don't waste your money on this! Python is a great language and google have a free course online which is a million times better.
At is mostly death by powerpoint with no live lessons at all, defeating the main objective of this series and even has audio outtakes still edited in, where the lecturer growls out loud to himself.
Don't waste your money on this! Python is a great language and google have a free course online which is a million times better.
Format:Paperback
Very comprehensive and good refresher, plus guide for shifting from Python 2.x to 3.0 etc.
Using it partly to encourage kids into programming, since Python is one of the easiest languages to pick-up.
Whilst occasionally Wesley Chun can get a bit pedestrian in his lessons, there are some absolute howlers. Particularly when he loses it in Lesson 6 (one of the longest), and you here him getting extremely frustrated then cutting the mike. I'm guessing that when they editted this lesson the editor also got a bit tired!!
Irrespective of the final polish, its a great introduction that I would have not hesitation in recommending. Far easier than ploughing through the boooks (most of which are still only 2.x).
Using it partly to encourage kids into programming, since Python is one of the easiest languages to pick-up.
Whilst occasionally Wesley Chun can get a bit pedestrian in his lessons, there are some absolute howlers. Particularly when he loses it in Lesson 6 (one of the longest), and you here him getting extremely frustrated then cutting the mike. I'm guessing that when they editted this lesson the editor also got a bit tired!!
Irrespective of the final polish, its a great introduction that I would have not hesitation in recommending. Far easier than ploughing through the boooks (most of which are still only 2.x).
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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Mostly recordings of slides with audio narration
13 Feb 2010
Format:Paperback
This is most certainly not a step by step introduction to Python programming, though technically it is a slide show about the fundamentals but only for someone who already knows a similar programming language. It is NOT for someone who has never programmed before. It is merely a lightweight summary of the content in the author's book, Core Python Programming, of which he'll refer you to more than once to learn about topics he really should be covering, despite the fact that this video slide show actually costs more than the book! No need to read any further, just get the book and skip this waste of money.
If you prefer to watch a video of mostly slides with text on a blue background while the presenter narrates (yawn), and see very little actual video of live coding being done to illustrate the lessons or provide hands on step by step Python programming insight, then this is the product for you (yawn). Many lessons don't even have any video of programming in Python at all! The most coding you'll see is the narrator going through the interactive shell in Lesson 2 rushing through a "Demo" of interactive commands. After that, videos of the author actually doing something get progressively rarer. It's baffling why the author agreed to even do a "Live"Lessons video at all, or why the publisher would release it as a "Live"Lesson along with a misleading description.
On the other hand, why pay for something when there's no shortage of free Python videos of slide presentations on the Internet that are as equally theoretical and not particularly engaging or illustrative? But, if you insist on buying a Python video tutorial, then you'd be better off looking for LinuxCBT's Python scripting video which clearly shows what a live lesson is all about though it isn't cheap.
Python is an interesting language, and deserves better treatment than an uninspiring, overpriced slide show presentation sold as a "Live" Lesson. This might actually turn new programmers away from Python. I'd advise new programmers to search MIT University's website for an entire free video course introducing beginners to programming using Python as their first language.
The LiveLessons series are a bit of a hit and miss in quality, but future authors could benefit greatly by watching how Bill Jelen (Mr. Excel) does his LiveLessons videos. If LiveLessons ever covers Erlang or Clojure, I can only hope they'll use slides to only briefly introduce the theoretical topic, then actually show how a programmer implements the topic for illustration, passing along insights only an experienced developer could as he codes multiple practical examples of the theory.
If you prefer to watch a video of mostly slides with text on a blue background while the presenter narrates (yawn), and see very little actual video of live coding being done to illustrate the lessons or provide hands on step by step Python programming insight, then this is the product for you (yawn). Many lessons don't even have any video of programming in Python at all! The most coding you'll see is the narrator going through the interactive shell in Lesson 2 rushing through a "Demo" of interactive commands. After that, videos of the author actually doing something get progressively rarer. It's baffling why the author agreed to even do a "Live"Lessons video at all, or why the publisher would release it as a "Live"Lesson along with a misleading description.
On the other hand, why pay for something when there's no shortage of free Python videos of slide presentations on the Internet that are as equally theoretical and not particularly engaging or illustrative? But, if you insist on buying a Python video tutorial, then you'd be better off looking for LinuxCBT's Python scripting video which clearly shows what a live lesson is all about though it isn't cheap.
Python is an interesting language, and deserves better treatment than an uninspiring, overpriced slide show presentation sold as a "Live" Lesson. This might actually turn new programmers away from Python. I'd advise new programmers to search MIT University's website for an entire free video course introducing beginners to programming using Python as their first language.
The LiveLessons series are a bit of a hit and miss in quality, but future authors could benefit greatly by watching how Bill Jelen (Mr. Excel) does his LiveLessons videos. If LiveLessons ever covers Erlang or Clojure, I can only hope they'll use slides to only briefly introduce the theoretical topic, then actually show how a programmer implements the topic for illustration, passing along insights only an experienced developer could as he codes multiple practical examples of the theory.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
NOT Worth it!
23 May 2011
Format:Paperback
This Video is presented on a VERY abstract form! If you are new to Python then I would not use this to learn it! For example, the presenter explains "Functions" (def in Python), without a single example on kwargs or groups. It is true that he mentions these, but NOT examples. Since I am attempting to recommend video courses to those new in Python, under my supervision, I cannot recommend this video to my trainees...It would be a total waste of their time!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Not for beginners
14 Dec 2010
Format:Paperback
I couldn't agree more with Jakinder Singh's review. Only I think that 2 stars is being generous.
It's called live LESSONS, but this is not video training at all, nor is it a course.
The title 'Python Fundamentals' is also very misleading. This is definitely NOT something that is suitable for beginners.
There are a few coding examples in the beginning, but they go very fast and any explanation is non-existant.
(I couldn't even complete the helloworld.py one from lesson 1, since I have no idea how to get IDLE to open a .py file from a location on my hard disk. There are NO instructions on how to do this).
I've watched and skimmed through half of it (despite extreme confusion from the start, I have no programming experience and only a limited understanding of the Python basics and terminology) and at best this seems to be a pocket reference in slide-show format.
Don't waste your money.
It's called live LESSONS, but this is not video training at all, nor is it a course.
The title 'Python Fundamentals' is also very misleading. This is definitely NOT something that is suitable for beginners.
There are a few coding examples in the beginning, but they go very fast and any explanation is non-existant.
(I couldn't even complete the helloworld.py one from lesson 1, since I have no idea how to get IDLE to open a .py file from a location on my hard disk. There are NO instructions on how to do this).
I've watched and skimmed through half of it (despite extreme confusion from the start, I have no programming experience and only a limited understanding of the Python basics and terminology) and at best this seems to be a pocket reference in slide-show format.
Don't waste your money.
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