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1843372495 2004 Monty Python Calendar Book Slow Dazzle July, 2003 Slow Dazzle http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1843372495.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1843372495.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1843372495.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $12.99 2276369 Calendar 1843372495 This item is currently not available. 1843372495_us 1149507423000 us unread

1842990586 4u2read.ok: Problems with a Python (4u2read.ok) Book Jeremy Strong Scoular Anderson 17 May, 2002 Barrington Stoke http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1842990586.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1842990586.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1842990586.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $9.31 $9.45 $5.30 $5.72 3220718 Adventure stories Children: Young Adult (Gr. 7-9) English language easy readers Paperback 1842990586 Usually ships in 4 to 6 weeks 1842990586_us 1149507457000 us unread

1584887184 A Java Library of Graph Algorithms and Optimization Book Hang T. Lau 15 October, 2007 Chapman & Hall/CRC http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1584887184.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1584887184.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1584887184.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $99.95 $99.95 Advanced Mathematics Mathematics / Advanced Hardcover 1 1584887184 Not yet released. 1584887184_us 1149507608000 us unread

B0007K6XXG A key to the identification of Australian snakes: Other than blindsnakes, rock snakes and pythons, file snakes, and sea snakes Book R. A Hunt 01 January, 1947 s.n http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0007K6XXG.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0007K6XXG.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0007K6XXG.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg Australia Snakes Unknown Binding B0007K6XXG This item is currently not available. B0007K6XXG_us 1149507595000 us unread

1882185617 A Letter To My Sisters: An Awakening Of Dreams Book Java L. Collins June, 2007 Cornerstone Pub (FL) http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1882185617.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1882185617.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1882185617.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $14.95 $9.72 African American women Christianity Christianity - Christian Life - General Dreams Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General General Personal Growth - General Psychology Religion - Christian Living Religious aspects Religious life Self-actualization (Psychology) Paperback 1 1882185617 Not yet released. 1882185617_us 1149507608000 us unread

1411677315 A Million Little Pieces of Feces - The fake memoir that's so much more fun than James Frey's Book Python Bonkers 28 February, 2006 Lulu Press http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1411677315.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1411677315.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1411677315.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $18.99 $18.99 $18.79 199869 1MEJFTB5DQH5S Fiction Fiction - General Humorous Paperback 1 1411677315 Usually ships in 24 hours 4.5 5 5

A freaking skyrocket Babies

A freaking skyrocket across the sky (or your mind). Madness. Wackiness. And many, many things you've never thought of, that's for sure. I've never read anything like this. I actually reread it after once again rereading Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (I know, I'm sick, but I just get a kick out of it) and it's one of the few books I would put up in that category. Ostensibly we are following the adventures of low-level journalist, Python Bonkers, as he attempts to obtain an interview of Willie Nelson and save his magazine career. But his life is not so simple. Like a lion tamer he has to use a "poking stick" to keep the drunks at his beach house in line. His Dilbert-like office is filled with looney tunes who believe in social Darwinism. His sub-atomic approach to reality, as a passenger in a particular slice of time in a finite universe has never quite been explored like this (probably be a good discussion topic in a physics class). If you have a sense of humor, about class, religion, the universe and yourself, you will enjoy this hysterical book (with or without your Depends; you'll understand once you read it). 5

This book is the cult classic that nobody knows about yet

I predict this will end up being the type of book passed around college dorms and otherwise disseminated, by word of mouth, for years to come. It's one of those books where you say to your friends, "you've got to read this crazy thing, you're going to get a kick out of it." The rhythm and timing of the prose is excellent for the purposes at hand and all of the sentences are carefully balanced and considered, which is essential to humor writing. This book puts the comic in comic novels. And, as far as fake memoirs go, this is tops. It opens up with some bizarre back and forth exchanges between Bonkers and one of the characters from the book who hijacks the manuscript and tries to publish it behind his back. Then it directs you to the back of the book for a brief discussion of Determinism. Then back to the front of the book. It is a peculiar opening, funny, but I'm not sure a different editor editing this book wouldn't have worked in a more traditional opening. But without experiments where would we be? Stuck with every other assembly line piece of ___ . . . Maybe a million little pieces of them for that matter. Aside from this, I'm going two thumbs up despite the price, after all, it was twice as humorous as the last comic tome I delved into. 5

The Dr. is dead. Long live the Dr.

I opened up this book and the first thing that I saw was a testimonial quote: "Only a lunatic would read this book." I'm just the guy to do it, I thought to myself. This thing will make you laugh a lot. It's like taking mescaline and that's probably not a bad idea while reading it - or, at least, some sort of herbal redirection. I've never laughed my ass off while reading a book. I mean, bent over laughing and leading to a laughing jag. I don't know, maybe it's just me. Maybe I need to be committed or something, I'm sure others won't get it, but this thing made me piss my pants. Around every corner, or should I say on every page, something jumped out and before I knew it, there I was, bent over laughing again. Jesus. Once you get a taste of that, you keep on moving forward, because now you want it again, like a junky. And then it delivers. I plowed through the thing in a few short days. The opening 10 or 15 pages, I wasn't sure where he was going but it was amusing enough and then once it got in the groove it was a non-stop riot. Who is this guy? I wonder if it's a famous writer having fun on the side? 0061171468 1573223158 0307276902 0374500010 1411677315_us 1149507414000 us unread

0345276906 A Plague of Pythons Book Frederik Pohl 12 August, 1978 Del Rey http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0345276906.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0345276906.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0345276906.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $1.75 $0.14 $0.19 1518055 2BSDRYTM93TYC Non-Classifiable Nonfiction - General Mass Market Paperback 1 0345276906 This item is currently not available. 4.5 5 3

"Hell is open & all the devils are here"

Frederik Pohl an author from the "Sci-fi Golden Age" group and he is still producing new books. He has authored more than one success as: "The Space Merchants" (1952 with C. M. Kornbluth), "Gladiator-at-law" (1955 with C. M. Kornbluth), the underrated but excellent "Drunkard's Walk" (1960), Hugo & Nebula winner "Gateway" (1977), also some fiascos as the sequel of "Gateway" known as "Heechee Saga". This book is a mixed basket: a good idea and a poor resolution. Earth is subject to the attack of "demons" that are able to posses any creature and force it to perform whatever kind of vandalic acts you may imagine. Against them there is no defense. On this background the worst felony, a person may commit, is to forge such attack. If someone is found guilty is ostracized and exposed. The main character is blamed and convicted of "hoax". The reader follows his misadventures. After the half of the book the frame of the story begin to change and continue so until the end. This finale is intended to be shocking but it doesn't qualify. If you had already read the best of Pohl you may try this story. If not you will better read the titles mentioned at the start of this review. Reviewed by Max Yofre. 4

Cracking story by Pohl

I had a hard time tracking down a copy of this, but I finally did and am glad that I took the bother. It's a story of two halves, and strongly promotes the old adage that 'absolute power corrupts absolutely'. The first half of the story leads you to believe that people in a post-apocalyptic world are being attacked by 'fire-spirits', which possess the hosts to take over their bodies to perform all sorts of nasty and sinful acts. Once the plot begins to resolve itself, it becomes apparent that this is not necessarily so. Without revealing the premise of the second half, the plot does twist and takes a different direction. A good example of Pohl writing well. Not his best work, but very entertaining. 5

Where can I get it ?

A Frederick Pohl classic. A small group of people acquire the ability to control others by taking them over, and operating them like remote machines. Soon the term "possessed" becomes a legal defence against any crime - unless you are caught and outcast as a "hoaxer" - Pohl establishes this structure and develops a highly personalised account of one man's travels. both in and out of body, in this altered society.Where can I get it ? 0345276906_us 1149507595000 us unread

0413741605 A Pocketful of Python: Volume 2 Book John Cleese John Cleese 01 September, 2000 Methuen Publishing, Ltd. http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0413741605.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0413741605.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0413741605.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $9.99 $5.20 $189.50 851846 3DHFKFX4PMPTL 3K5O1N3EV08AQ 1EYGEG2IEFSXA Comedy Film & Video - History & Criticism General Humor Monty Python's flying circus ( Monty Python's flying circus (Television program) Pop Arts / Pop Culture Television - History & Criticism Humor / General Hardcover 1 0413741605 This item is currently not available. 5.0 3 5

The Best of the Series

This whole "Pocketful of Python" series strikes me as just a bit odd. Much of it was released to mark Monty Python's 30th Anniversary, and it seems like something of a cash-in. After all, it's just portions of other Python books crammed into several volumes in a slightly new way. That said, I have gotten an awful lot of enjoyment from the series (hence the five star rating.) This is undoubtedly the best book of the series. Normally I'd just write about my favorites bits, but John Cleese's selection is so good I'll list them all. African Notebook, Anne Elk's (Miss) Theory, Arthur "Two Sheds" Jackson, Consulting Jean-Paul Sartre, Eric the Half a Bee, Fear No Man!, Jonah Gambolputty, Larch in Court, The Last Supper, Merchant Banker, Mollusks, Norman Henderson's Diary, History of Mankind Medallions, Oh Lord Please Don't Burn Us, Python Panel, Raymond Luxury Yacht, Sacred Castles, We Are Individuals, and Word Association Football. 5

NEE!

THIS BOOK WILL MAKE YOU READ IT OVER 10,000,000 TIMES! WHEN i GOT THIS BOOK I LAUGHED SO MUCH! MY SUGGESTION IS IF YOUR A PYTHON MANIAC YOU MUST BUY THIS BOOK.(NEE!) 5

NEE!

THIS BOOK WILL MAKE YOU READ IT OVER 10,000,000 TIMES! WHEN i GOT THIS BOOK I LAUGHED SO MUCH! MY SUGGESTION IS IF YOUR A PYTHON MANIAC YOU MUST BUY THIS BOOK.(NEE!) 0413760103 0413750000 0413741605_us 1149507501000 us unread

0413750108 A Pocketful of Python: Volume 3 Book Michael Palin 01 January, 2001 Methuen Publishing Ltd http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0413750108.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0413750108.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0413750108.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $11.95 $11.95 $5.15 $7.49 1109191 3K5O1N3EV08AQ General Humor Monty Python's flying circus ( Monty Python's flying circus (Television program) Performing Arts Performing Arts/Dance Drama / General Hardcover 1 0413750108 Usually ships in 24 hours 4.5 3 4

Picked by Terry Gilliam

This whole "Pocketful of Python" series strikes me as just a bit odd. Much of it was released to mark Monty Python's 30th Anniversary, and it seems like something of a cash-in. After all, it's just portions of other Python books crammed into several volumes in a slightly new way. That said, I have gotten an awful lot of enjoyment from the series (hence the four star rating.) This selection of material edited by Terry Gilliam has some very good material. There are very few copper bottom Python classics in it (other than the Prince in the Tower), there are some of my favorite unappreciated bits, like The Old Storyteller, Adventures of Walter the Wallaby, What to Do When Meeting the Royal Family, and the German Lumberjack Song. In addition, there is a preface by Eric Idle (at the back of the book) which is probably the funniest of the "Pocketful of Python" series. 5

not just for brits

since i saw "holy grail" 6 years ago, (i was 10) i have been hell bent on finding everything the pythons ever did. unfortunately most of my friends don't share my enthusiasm for british comedy, but i think it should be known that the occasional american recognizes comedic genius when she sees it. for all those who live in areas where mention of the pythons is scarce, this is a must have. you'll be quoting them in your head at school, at work, on the bus, wherever. just ignore the people who turn and look when you burst out laughing. 5

This is Abuse....Stupid Git

Well, what CAN be said? It is good to see humour spelled with a pair of U's (per the King's English). Whilst doth contain numerous funny bits, perhaps the American palate is not suited for wit which possesses intellectual subtleties. For our American friends I recommend Rosanne Arnold, fluorescent plaid sport-coats (with matching white 5cm/2" belt), premium Wisconsin 3 week old processed cheese slices, Napa Valley's finest blush and a domestic rum tipped Colt cigar. 0413760103 0060758643 0679726470 0679726489 0380804794 0413750108_us 1149507501000 us unread

158488455X A Practical Guide to Data Structures and Algorithms using Java Book Sally A. Goldman 15 June, 2007 Chapman & Hall/CRC http://images.amazon.com/images/P/158488455X.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/158488455X.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/158488455X.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $79.95 $79.95 Advanced Mathematics Science/Mathematics Mathematics / Advanced Hardcover 1 158488455X Not yet released. 158488455X_us 1149507608000 us unread

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B0008DH3DQ A study of invidious racial discrimination in admissions at Thomas Jefferson High School For Science and Technology: Monty Python and Franz Kafka meet ... : An article from: Albany Law Review Ebook Lloyd Cohen 31 July, 2005 Albany Law School http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0008DH3DQ.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0008DH3DQ.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0008DH3DQ.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $5.95 $5.95 Digital HTML Available for download now B0008DH3DQ_us 1149507457000 us unread

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0131016075 Advanced Java 2 Platform How to Program (2nd Edition) Book Deitel 01 July, 2007 Prentice Hall http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0131016075.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0131016075.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0131016075.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $74.00 $74.00 3268079 Computer Bks - Languages / Programming Computer Books: Languages Computers Programming Languages - Java Computers / Programming Languages / Java Paperback 1 0131016075 Not yet released. 3.0 21 5

Pleased!

Book looked brand-new even though it was used. Very pleased with what I got. 1

worst ever

Dont buy "ants" books. Terrible style, bad explanations, urgh ... There are a lot of tutorials to spend money for. 5

Outstanding Textbook!

I am a big advocate of the HTP series. I've been reading this series since your 2nd Edition of the Java SE. I've also owned the HTP Visual Basic books when I first started programming. I don't think I have seen a better programming textbox on how to learn any language the "proper" way. It is because of the HTP series that with just an A.S. CIS degree, I am currently in a 6 month internship with IBM Global Services as a Java Web developer. The task given to me has been challenging. I'm responsible for migrating an ASP application to JSP and also developing another JSP application from the ground up. 0131483986 0130284173 0130092290 0201787903 0131118269 0131016075_us 1149507608000 us unread

1551975467 Adventures in Green Python Country Book Karl H Switak 1996 Commonwealth Publications Inc http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1551975467.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1551975467.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1551975467.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $199.95 Paperback 1551975467 This item is currently not available. 1551975467_us 1149507535000 us unread

0836836529 African Rock Pythons (World's Largest Snakes) Book Valerie J. Weber December, 2002 Gareth Stevens Publishing http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0836836529.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0836836529.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0836836529.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $22.00 $22.00 $42.67 $19.86 2011853 African rock python Animals - Reptiles & Amphibians Children's 4-8 - Nature Children's Books/Ages 4-8 Nonfiction Children: Grades 2-3 Juvenile Nonfiction Juvenile literature Pythons Snakes Library Binding 1 0836836529 Usually ships in 24 hours 0836836529_us 1149507457000 us unread

0672328968 Agile Java Development with Spring, Hibernate and Eclipse Book Anil Hemrajani 09 May, 2006 Sams http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0672328968.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0672328968.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0672328968.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $39.99 $26.39 $25.05 $39.99 $25.04 10528 Certification Guides - General Computer Books: General Computers Computers - Certification Programming - Software Development Programming Languages - Java Computers / Technical Skills Paperback 1 0672328968 Usually ships in 24 hours 3.5 5 4

Wonderful Intro to Eclipse, Spring, Hibernate, and Agile development

If you are unfamiliar with any of the technologies listed, then this is a good book to help you get up to speed. Nowadays, it's hard to stay current on Java and the magnitude of open source frameworks available. Any of the technologies are too big to cover in one book. Anil gives you a short concise introduction on each that allows you to start your journey using these technologies. It's enough so that you know where to dig to find more information. Along the way, he gives lessons about agile development and how these technologies help support that. I've been loaning this book out to fellow team members and it's been great to get everyone up to speed. The writing style is straightforward and honest. Anil gives his candid opinions along the way on development. I found this refreshing. You might not like everything he says and that's OK. They're more like recommendations and advice. I appreciated that they were included. If you approach this book as a way to get up to speed on Eclipse, Spring, and Hibernate, then you will not be disappointed. It's much too short to give you all the details, but like is stated in the introduction: it's a roadmap. 5

Not just Spring and Hibernate

To call this book just an introduction to Spring and Hibernate does it gross injustice. It definitely does that, but it does it in the bigger context of Agile Modeling Driven development and XP, and thus provides a complete roadmap for planning and executing Java-based projects. I liked the book. While it is definitely not for a Java novice, it is definitely for a mid-career Java professional who is either trying to keep up to date or trying to move from a project using old-style Java development to one that uses lighter frameworks. The best feature of the book, IMHO, is the simple, straightforward language that it uses to introduce and explain the concepts. This almost laidback style of writing makes the book a very fast read. Also, the fact that it takes a sample application and takes it through a full development life-cycle really gives it a good narrative flow. Interspersed throughout the book are insights from the author in the form of side-boxed personal opinions. Anil uses these for narrating experiences from his career and they provide relief from the academic content as well as real-life perspective into the subject matter. The only negative points I can make are a) the chapter on Eclipse need not have been that long - a GUI tools such as that does not need such detailed explanations. And b) there are cartoons in the book - when I see them in books, I expect a chuckle out them - but these are not funny cartoons :-( All in all, a good book that provides useful and usable insights into Agile development and introduces all the tools that one needs to practise it. In the foreword to the book, Scott Ambler says that the greatest strength of the book is that "it presents real-world advice that reflects what top-notch developers actually do in practice". When I read it I thought it was high praise. But after reading the book, I think he is exactly correct. 3

should have been introduction to Spring, Hibernate and Eclipse

As somebody mentioned above , why go through the stuff like setting up spring etc ..when it can be found anywhere and everywhere .And even that is kind of funny at places sample this "If you experience some completely odd problems with your Eclipse project (which I have never encountered, by the way), you could try deleting the project from Eclipse and re-creating it." Buy this one if you want to get started with Spring, Hibernate and Eclipse . 159059584X 0764574833 1932394583 1932394354 193239415X 0672328968_us 1149507666000 us unread

0132272679 AJAX : Creating Web Pages with Asynchronous JavaScript and XML Book Edmond Woychowsky 21 July, 2006 Prentice Hall PTR http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0132272679.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0132272679.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0132272679.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $44.99 $28.34 680639 Computer - Internet Computer Books: Languages Computers Computers - Languages / Programming Internet - Application Development Programming Languages - CGI, Javascript, Perl, VBScript Computers / Programming Languages / CGI, JavaScript, Perl, VBScript Hardcover 1 0132272679 Not yet released. 0132272679_us 1149507375000 us unread

0975212869 AJAX and Flash Development with OpenLaszlo : A Tutorial Book Chris Coremans 10 June, 2006 BrainySoftware http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0975212869.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0975212869.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0975212869.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $39.95 $25.17 250551 Computer Books: Languages Computers Computers - Languages / Programming Programming Languages - Java Computers / Programming Languages / Java Paperback 1 0975212869 Not yet released. 1932394613 1932394354 0764574833 0321303474 097669400X 0975212869_us 1149507666000 us unread

0596101805 Ajax Design Patterns Book Michael Mahemoff 01 June, 2006 O'Reilly Media, Inc. http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0596101805.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0596101805.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0596101805.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $44.99 356683 Computer - Internet Computer Bks - Languages / Programming Computer Books: General Computers General Internet - Application Development Internet - Web Site Design Programming - Software Development Programming Languages - CGI, Javascript, Perl, VBScript Ajax, DHTML, JavaScript, Asynchronous JavaScript, XML, patterns, design, usability, user experience Computers / Programming Languages / CGI, JavaScript, Perl, VBScript Paperback 1 0596101805 This item is currently not available. 0596101694 0471777781 0596102259 0976694085 1590596161 0596101805_us 1149507375000 us unread

0471785970 Ajax For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech)) Book Steve Ph.D. Holzner 13 March, 2006 For Dummies http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0471785970.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0471785970.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0471785970.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $29.99 $18.89 $16.73 $29.99 $16.73 19910 Asynchronous transfer mode Computer Bks - Languages / Programming Computer Books: Languages Computers Computers - Languages / Programming JavaScript (Computer program language) Programming Languages - XML Web site development Computers / Programming Languages / XML Internet Paperback 1 0471785970 Usually ships in 24 hours 5.0 7 4

Hello, does the word "proofreading" mean anything to you?

This might be a wonderful book but it's hard to tell through the proofreading errors. I'm only 27 pages into chapter 2 and I've already found 25 errors. The errors might be manageable to someone who already knows how to program in JavaScript. But for those new to the language the errors will drive you crazy. There's no excuse for this kind of sloppiness in publishing. Whoever proofread this book ought to be fired. 5

An Excellent Introduction to Ajax

Ajax, for the uninitiated or curious, is a technology that is used to update page content without page refreshes. Surprisingly for a Dummies book, Ajax for Dummies covers enough of this seemingly complex topic not just to serve as an overview, but to prepare one to actually go out and use it in the real world. Not counting the obligatory Part of Tens section (lists of tens that are in the back of Dummies books), this book is broken down into 4 main sections: 1. Getting Started Here, the reader is given a glimpse of what can be done with the Ajax technology - from Google Maps and Google Suggest to the drag 'n drop power of the Rico framework, enough is given to wet the reader's appetite. A decent overview of JavaScript, the main language requirement for implementing Ajax, is given here as well. 2. Programming in Ajax In this section lies the meat of Ajax - how to use the XMLHttpRequest JavaScript object. Assuming the reader understands JavaScript to some extent, one leaves this section not just with a vague understanding of the workings of Ajax, but with enough know-how to starting implementing it (albeit in a rudimentary form) right away. 3. Ajax Frameworks Now that the reader has learned how to create manual Ajax requests, this chapter leaves all of that behind - sort of. Frameworks are basically libraries of code written and organized by developers for easy access to complex tasks, allowing the user to do things such as grab XML data from the server or move an element in the document without having to reinvent the code wheel in order to do so. A number of these frameworks are reviewed in this section, both for the client and for the server. Most server-side examples are PHP-based, but should be understood by anyone with a Java background (some Java frameworks are covered as well). 4. In-Depth Ajax Power This section is somewhat a continuation of Part One, which left off with the JavaScript tutorial. Here, the reader gets on overview of some of the other technologies used in Ajax, specifically XML and how to manipulate it's data with JavaScript; CSS, used to control the look of the web page; and PHP, to handle data processing on the server. I highly recommend this book to anyone wanting to learn Ajax, I've been able to walk away from this book with enough knowledge to start adding Ajax to my current applications immediately, and now have enough clarity to understand more complex Ajax books, such as Ajax in Action. With a little web development experience under one's belt, most other readers will able to do so as well. 5

Excellent introduction!

Just at the right level for an introductory book. It quickly goes through the basics and into more advanced topics. If you are looking to get your arms around this technology this is a great place to start. 0672328682 1932394613 0471777781 0596102259 1590595823 0471785970_us 1149507375000 us unread

0596101694 Ajax Hacks : Tips & Tools for Creating Responsive Web Sites (Hacks) Book Bruce Perry 01 March, 2006 O'Reilly Media, Inc. http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0596101694.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0596101694.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0596101694.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $29.99 $18.89 $15.83 $29.99 $14.97 10763 Computer - Internet Computer Books: Languages Computers Computers - Languages / Programming Internet - Application Development Internet - Web Site Design Internet - World Wide Web Programming Languages - CGI, Javascript, Perl, VBScript Programming Languages - General Ajax, XML, DHTML, JavaScript, Asynchronous, xhtml, css, DOM, ruby on rails, ajaxian Computers / Programming Languages / CGI, JavaScript, Perl, VBScript Paperback 1 0596101694 Usually ships in 24 hours 3.5 8 2

The Last Book I'd Recommend on AJAX

A lot of O'Reilly books of late seem rushed, intended to fill a sudden small vacancy in the marketplace. This is one such book. It seems not well proofed, the code samples are often big blobs of text with no indentation or concern for formatting, and the content seems rushed and poorly considered. For example, the Ruby on Rails coverage is really slim, and the code looks like it was written a year ago. There's not a single example using RJS templates, the current standard way of writing AJAX in Rails. The Scriptaculous examples are already out of date (for example, the chapter on in-place editing is totally irrelevant - Rails has a means to do this in a single line of code by now) and the content is quite spare. If you need a book on Ajax, look for the Manning or Pragmatic Programmer books. All the other ones are quite poor, especially this one. I usually really like O'Reilly's work, but lately it's gotten watered-down. Skip this book and save your money for something better. 4

Lots of great tips and techniques...

If you're already pretty comfortable with JavaScript and had possibly even done some "Ajax" development before it was coined "Ajax", this book would be a great addition to your library. It covers quite a number of various Ajax techniques and libraries that have been around for a while as well as the increasing number that have cropped up over the last year or so. If you are new to Ajax (or JavaScript) development, you might want to check Head Rush Ajax or another Ajax/JavaScript starter book, as this book assumes you aren't new to JavaScript development. If you're looking for a variety of interesting ways to do asynchronous javascript calls, this book fits the bill quite nicely. 4

Good, usefull

Hello, I have this Ajax book and other one too. This book is fine, and the examples mainly worked in my system (with Firefox browser, but I have not checked all examples). Examples are easy to understand. If I have to recommend some Ajax book, then I recommend this one. To basic-understand Ajax is enough with something like 20 or 30 pages, and this book writes only what is needed. Rest of thing in the book are examples, case of usage, etc. Carles. 1932394613 0596102259 0471777781 0976694085 1590596161 0596101694_us 1149507375000 us unread

1932394613 Ajax in Action Book Dave Crane Eric Pascarello Darren James 01 October, 2005 Manning Publications http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1932394613.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1932394613.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1932394613.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $44.95 $28.32 $21.46 $32.00 $26.30 877 37FGO8FA36M2M 366XKGXWFZK29 AQM9VSAUS77D Asynchronous transfer mode Computer Books: Languages Computers Computers - Languages / Programming JavaScript (Computer program language) Programming Languages - General Programming Languages - HTML Programming Languages - Java World Wide Web Computers / General Paperback 1 1932394613 Usually ships in 24 hours 4.5 37 5

Good introductory book for budding AJAXian

This book is my first AJAX book and frankly speaking this book did keep up its promises with a good introduction and smooth-sailing examples. I am not a Client-side scripting expert, but I found this book feeds a lot basics about Javascript and even CSS. These scripting langaugaes are important when you are working with Ajax. The book has lots of examples that you'll find useful to fully understand what is going on. I found I could modify several of the examples and drop them into my own Ajax project. I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to get introduced to Ajax programming and could also use a primer on Javascript and CSS. I may probably buy another one other book on Ajax simply because it is still evolving and not standardized. Thus I feel sure there's more tricks to learn till AJAX hits all parts of the Internet. Worth reading + worth a buy and you will NOT be disappointed. 5

a must buy book

I have bought Ajax Patterns and Best Practise (accademic), Foundations of AJAX (accademic), Professional AJAX (pragmatic) and Ajax in Action (pragmatic) Ajax Patterns is good at telling you the kind of patterns to use for different solutions, where as Ajax in Action is a little lighter here but after each chapter the is a Refactoring phase. The "accademic" books are a too much up their own butts, like I am more OO than you. Like any new Fad, you will always have the scolars/purists padding out a point. The pragmatic books seem to be by real world developers, so you have less include files, better formed objects and useful samples. The WROX download samples are missing so you will have to contact the webmaster. All four books are good in their own way. Eg Patterns is good for designing data factories. None of then cover ASP3.0 some do Java, PHP or .NET for server side activies. on two books cover XML and only In Action covers SOAP and webservices. The others just use JSON which is not supported in ASP but well in php/ruby/js etc. "Ajax Patterns and Best Practise" is good if you are planning a large project and developing a in house tool kit. But "Professional AJAX" and "Ajax in Action" are ones I use all the time. 5

CLEANING UP WITH AJAX!!

Are you a professional enterprise developer? If you are, you're in luck! Authors Dave Crane, Eric Pascarello and Darren James, have done an outstanding job of writing a book that explains how to distribute the application between the client and the server, while retaining the integrity of the system. Crane, Pascarello and James, begin by discussing the fundamental differences between Ajax and the classic web application, how to think about usability, and other conceptual items. Then, they emphasize where the technology is used differently, or behaves differently, as a result of being part of Ajax. The authors continue by introducing the third main theme for this book, managing the Ajax codebase. Next, they look at ways of keeping your code clean on the client itself, applying the old web work-horse, Model-View-Controller, in a new way. Then, the authors look at different ways of communicating between the client and the server and how various types of frameworks can be adapted to work with Ajax. The authors continue by addressing the user experience, and take an in-depth look at ways of keeping the user informed while asynchronous tasks are executing. Next, they look at the issue of security in Ajax from a number of angles. Then, the authors discuss that other showstopper: performance. They also look at a simple way to give the user a richer experience by enhancing HTML forms with Ajax. The authors continue by showing you how to implement a type-head and fetching data from the server in response to user keystrokes. Next, they explore the wider possibilities of Ajax user interfaces. They also show you how to develop an Ajax-based search system and demonstrate the power of client-side XSLT as a way of turning raw XML data into formatted, styled content. Finally, they present an Ajax client without a back-end implementation. You'll learn in this most excellent book, how to ensure your application is flexible and maintainable. So, if you are a web developer who has prior experience with web technologies, this book is for you! 1590595823 097669400X 0471777781 0974514055 1590596161 1932394613_us 1149507375000 us unread

0596101872 Ajax on Java Book Steve Olson 01 October, 2006 O'Reilly Media, Inc. http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0596101872.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0596101872.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0596101872.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $29.99 $18.89 462356 Computer Bks - Languages / Programming Computer Books: Languages Computers Computers - Languages / Programming Data Transmission Systems - Broadband Integrated Services Digital Networks (Isdn) Internet - Application Development Internet - General Internet - Web Site Design Programming - Object Oriented Programming Programming Languages - CGI, Javascript, Perl, VBScript Programming Languages - Java AJAX, Java, ruby, web, GUI, rich client, client, templates, UI, interface, rails Computers / Programming Languages / Java Paperback 1 0596101872 Not yet released. 1932394613 0596101694 1590596161 1590595823 0596102259 0596101872_us 1149507375000 us unread

1590596161 Ajax Patterns and Best Practices (Expert's Voice) Book Christian Gross 13 February, 2006 Apress http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1590596161.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1590596161.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1590596161.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $44.99 $28.34 $16.97 $44.99 $16.98 15693 Computer Bks - Languages / Programming Computer Books: Web Publishing Computers Computers - Languages / Programming Internet - Web Site Design Internet - World Wide Web Programming Languages - CGI, Javascript, Perl, VBScript Programming Languages - XML Paperback 1 1590596161 Usually ships in 24 hours 4.5 10 4

Good Book, poor title...

This book was very useful as an introduction to AJAX. There are definitely practices that look useful, and ways to go about things that I will keep in mind. The author does not seem to know what a Design Pattern is. Most of the "patterns" that are introduced in this book are specific solutions. Design patterns are solutions to generic problems. The author jumps from pre-existing patterns being implemented for specific problems to introducing new "patterns" that only solve specific problems. The book is well written, but I think comprehension would be easier if he used a little UML. An example of this is his book class. Rather than building the whole class, he could have built a single class diagram, and then only shown the implementation of the non-trivial methods and properties. This would have taken less space, and been easier to read. Nothing in this book is rocket-science, but there are things that it might take a few projects to work out on your own. I think it is a great book for anyone who is interested in learning AJAX. 5

Excellent 2nd or 3rd book on Ajax

Buy whatever Ajax primer you want, work with it, get excited about it, but before you use it in a real application, buy and read this book. Never expect to learn about a subject from a patterns book, just expect to leapfrog some painful learning experiences. This book helps you jump from experienced beginner to reasonable competence status without having to build a lot of bad applications first. 5

Excellent book on Ajax design strategies

This is an excellent theory and strategy book for AJAX. For the uninitiated, AJAX stands for Asynchronous Javascript and XML. In short, it's the technology behind Web 2.0. New data is fetched from the server and/or presented dynamically through client side Javascript that calls server side sources, commonly XML. Instead of refreshing the entire page, individual elements are changed based on user input and new data pulled from the server. The level of interaction and sophistication involved in using AJAX makes it a force to be reckoned with. Because of that, it's essential to have a book that covers the underpinnings of this technology. True to the title of this book, it is packed with good theoretical discussions of how AJAX works and good strategies for how to use AJAX. Knowing all of the tricks isn't worth much unless you can apply your knowledge in a meaningful way. An example of what I considered impressive was the material on caching strategies: AJAX has always struck me as being a high-transfer way to presenting information and instead this section makes AJAX into a means of saving traffic. Unlike other books on AJAX, this book covers design patterns for the technology. How do you divide data for distribution? Answer: Use the Content Chunking Patterns. How do you effectively maintain state or at least the impression of maintenance? Answer: the persistent communications pattern. How do you make all of the potential data available at the user's fingertips? Answer: the infinite data pattern. In the nine patterns presented the author explores much of theory, and that helps you strategize when it comes time to code your own applications. Each pattern has a dedicated chapter that first presents the intent of the pattern, then the motivation for using it in the context of AJAX, a list of possible applications of the design pattern, and associated design patterns. Next, the design pattern's architecture is explained in the context of solving an actual problem. Finally, the implementation is shown via code and the user's interaction with various webpages. At the end of each pattern's chapter there are "highlights" of what has just been presented. Up to now concrete examples of using AJAX were copious and usable theory has been hard to come by, making this book a welcome volume. I know how to write Javascript, I know what XML is. What I needed to know was how to bring it all together using design patterns that make sense for AJAX. This book accomplished that. My one criticism is that the introductory material in chapters one and two seems a bit rushed, so absolute beginners might benefit by reading "Head Rush Ajax" first, which is an excellent yet more introductory text. I notice that Amazon does not show the table of contents, so I do that here: CHAPTER 1 Introduction to Ajax 1 CHAPTER 2 The Nuts and Bolts of Ajax 19 CHAPTER 3 Content Chunking Pattern 53 CHAPTER 4 Cache Controller Pattern 79 CHAPTER 5 Permutations Pattern 111 CHAPTER 6 Decoupled Navigation Pattern 153 CHAPTER 7 Representation Morphing Pattern 197 CHAPTER 8 Persistent Communications Pattern 225 CHAPTER 9 State Navigation Pattern 265 CHAPTER 10 Infinite Data Pattern 303 CHAPTER 11 REST-Based Model View Controller Pattern 333 1932394613 0471777781 1590595823 0596102259 1590595335 1590596161_us 1149507375000 us unread

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1846283809 An Introduction to Network Programming with Java Book Jan Graba 28 July, 2006 Springer http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1846283809.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1846283809.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1846283809.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $59.95 $59.95 Computer Books: General Computer Science Computers Computers - Languages / Programming Networking - General Programming - Software Development Computers / Networking / General Java Network Programming Paperback 1 1846283809 Not yet released. 1846283809_us 1149507618000 us unread

1932857311 And Now For Something Completely Digital : The Complete Illustrated Guide to Monty Python CDs and DVDs Book Alan Parker Mick O'Shea 01 April, 2006 The Disinformation Company http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1932857311.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1932857311.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1932857311.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $17.95 $11.67 $12.28 $17.95 $11.56 604163 Cinema/Film: Book Film & Video - General Film & Video - Guides & Reviews Performing Arts Pop Arts / Pop Culture Popular Culture - General Performing Arts / Film / General Paperback 1 1932857311 Usually ships in 24 hours B000E97Y6K 1932857311_us 1149507414000 us unread

0859652084 And Now for Something Completely Trivial : Monty Python Trivia and Quiz Book Book Kim 'Howard Johnson 30 November, 1993 Plexus Pub http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0859652084.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0859652084.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0859652084.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $14.45 $11.74 $9.67 1390343 Humor Paperback 0859652084 This item is currently not available. 0859652084_us 1149507586000 us unread

0312062893 And Now for Something Completely Trivial: The Monty Python Trivia and Quiz Book Book Kim Johnson September, 1991 St Martins Pr http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0312062893.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0312062893.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0312062893.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $8.95 $0.01 $4.25 $4.45 1223603 English wit and humor General Humor Monty Python (Comedy troupe) Pop Arts / Pop Culture Television - General Paperback 1 0312062893 This item is currently not available. 5.0 1 5

Test your knowledge of Python with "Completely Trivial"!

Python fans beware: this book will extremely tax your knowledge of everything Python and make you exclaim "my brain hurts!" Kim Howard Johnson masterfully displays both his love of the group's comedy and his knowledge of their work in this whimsical trivia compendium. Filled with fun facts and quirky quizzes, "Trivial" will make even the most devout Python follower feel like a novice. Think you know "Holy Grail" or the Dead parrot sketch like the back of your hand? Come and take the test.... 0312062893_us 1149507586000 us unread

0431001251 Animals in Danger: Python and Anaconda (Animals in Danger) Book Edith Hope Fine 03 September, 1990 Heinemann Educational Books - Library Division http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0431001251.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0431001251.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0431001251.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg Designed / suitable for National Curriculum Reptiles & amphibians The environment Hardcover 0431001251 This item is currently not available. 0431001251_us 1149507586000 us unread

0321334833 Apache Geronimo : Java EE 5 Development and Deployment Book Aaron Mulder 13 October, 2006 Addison-Wesley Professional http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0321334833.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0321334833.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0321334833.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $44.99 $28.34 2162144 Business Enterprise Computer Bks - Languages / Programming Computer Books: Languages Computers Computers - Languages / Programming New Business Enterprises Programming Languages - Java Computers / Programming Languages / Java Paperback 1 0321334833 Not yet released. 0321334833_us 1149507609000 us unread

0836836553 Asian Rock Pythons (World's Largest Snakes) Book Valerie J. Weber December, 2002 Gareth Stevens Publishing http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0836836553.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0836836553.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0836836553.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $22.00 $22.00 $17.95 2688285 Animals - Reptiles & Amphibians Burmese python Children's Books/Ages 4-8 Nonfiction Children: Grades 2-3 Indian python Juvenile Nonfiction Juvenile literature Pythons Snakes Library Binding 1 0836836553 Usually ships in 24 hours 0836836553_us 1149507457000 us unread

B0000CDS92 Ball Python Care Ebook Donnie "Morti" Smith Steph Bairey 01 January, 2002 Baireynet http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000CDS92.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000CDS92.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000CDS92.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $5.00 $5.00 1360099 Pets Reptiles, Amphibians & Terrariums Digital Download: PDF Available for download now 0793802601 B0000CDS92_us 1149507457000 us unread

1882770285 Ball Python Manual (The Herpetocultural Library. Series 300) Book Philippe De Vosjoli Phillipe Devosjoli Roger Klingenberg Barkers October, 1997 Advanced Vivarium Systems http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1882770285.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1882770285.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1882770285.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $8.95 $0.75 $9.99 279120 19BCLM98ABKJE 11CUB5VL31M0A JBUK1P8RGED1 Agriculture - Animal Husbandry Animals Ball pythons as pets Nature/Ecology Pythons Pythons as pets Snakes Snakes as pets Paperback 1 1882770285 This item is currently not available. 748869030201 4.0 14 5

Awesome Book

I've recently purchased a 2ft Ball Python and have been buying as much lit. on the Ball Pyhon as I can. This book so far gives the most usefull information out there. It also has a lot of information that is dated. I say this because the book appears to be written when captive breed snakes were not readilly available. Witht that said there is a LOT of information that is specifically for a snake caught in the wild and shipped over. Even still it's probably the most valuable book on the Ball Python I own so far. 1

Ball Python Manual Review

Full of elementary information, why pay for it when you can get this information anywhere on the web. Surely there is a better source for ball python information out there! 5

Not a "pet guide book" but a manual.

This is what it says it is a manual. I see people trying to buy this book expecting it to be everything they ever need to know about pythons and then they are dissapointed. This is not a pet guide but a manual. This is a remarkable tool to owning a python. It lists many diseases a python might have,How to check the python for the diseases and how to treat them. Its a must for an owner because if you plan to have the snake for 20-30 years the chances are it will get sick more then once. This book has some great facts for begginers on selecting and housing a snake. Don't buy this book thinking this is all what you need. Its a trouble shooting manual and not a book on how to become one with ur pet, but if you are serious about owning a python or already have one this book is a MUST have. Other then that the next edition should have a better trouble shooting index and more photos on treatment and afflictions in color. There are only a few books that are easy to find on the Ball python and this is one of the best out there. 0793802601 0812093658 1882770358 1580080359 0764111248 1882770285_us 1149507534000 us unread

0764111248 Ball Pythons (Reptile and Amphibian Keeper's Guide) Book Richard Bartlett Patricia Bartlett 01 February, 2000 Barron's Educational Series http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0764111248.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0764111248.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0764111248.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $6.99 $6.99 $2.32 $3.93 604071 Pets Reptiles, Amphibians & Terrariums Pets / Reptiles & Amphibians Paperback 1 0764111248 Usually ships in 24 hours 027011011245 1.5 3 2

dont bother with this book

i bought this book because it was cheap and I needed information before bought my python to see if it was the species for me. This book tells you to do things every experienced reptile keeper has told me not to. I have had my ball python for three years and this book has never come in handy, dont bother with it, get yourself a real handbook. Its really just a skimpy overview of anything to do with bp's. 2

Too general

Some helpful basic information, but overall, too general. No specifics on temperatures, humidity, what to feed at what age/size, what size/age to start breeding, etc. 1

"NOT VERY INFORMATIVE "

THIS BOOK DOES NOT EXPLAIN IN DETAIL ABOUT THE BALL PYTHON, I HAVE LEARNED MORE FROM THE INTERNET THAN I HAVE FROM THIS BOOK. IT DID NOT ANSWER ANY OF THE SPECIFIC QUESTIONS THAT I HAD AND I ENDED UP PURCHASING ANOTHER. ALTHOUGH IT WAS SLIGHTLY INFORMATIVE, NOT ENOUGH WAS SPECIFIED 0793802601 0812093658 1882770358 1882770722 1580080359 0764111248_us 1149507501000 us unread

097673348X Ball Pythons in Captivity (Professional Breeders Series) Book Kevin McCurley 2005 ECO/Serpent's Tale NHBD http://images.amazon.com/images/P/097673348X.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/097673348X.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/097673348X.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $8.95 Paperback 097673348X This item is currently not available. 097673348X_us 1149507423000 us unread

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0972705538 Be Prepared for the AP Computer Science Exam in Java, Second Edition Book Maria Litvin 15 May, 2006 Skylight Publishing http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0972705538.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0972705538.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0972705538.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $18.95 $18.95 $14.00 288970 Paperback 0972705538 Usually ships in 24 hours 0972705538_us 1149507666000 us unread

1590596714 Beginning EJB 3: From Novice to Professional (Beginning: from Novice to Professional) Book Raghu R. Kodali Jonathan R. Wetherbee 11 September, 2006 Apress http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1590596714.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1590596714.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1590596714.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $44.99 $28.34 151692 Computer Books: Languages Computers Computers - Languages / Programming Programming Languages - Java Paperback 1 1590596714 Not yet released. 1590596455 0596007345 1590594703 1590595807 1590595963 1590596714_us 1149507609000 us unread

1590596935 Beginning Hibernate 3: From Novice to Professional (Beginning: from Novice to Professional) Book Jeff Linwood Dave Minter 28 August, 2006 Apress http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1590596935.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1590596935.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1590596935.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $39.99 $25.19 261573 Computer Books: Languages Computers Programming Languages - Java Java & variants Paperback 1 1590596935 Not yet released. 1590596935_us 1149507609000 us unread

1598631500 Beginning Java 5 Game Programming Book Jonathan S. Harbour 25 April, 2006 Course Technology PTR http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1598631500.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1598631500.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1598631500.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $29.99 $19.79 $18.69 $29.99 $12.00 34885 Computer Bks - Languages / Programming Computer Graphics - Game Programming Computers - Languages / Programming Games Games/Puzzles Programming Languages - Java Video & Electronic - General Computers / Entertainment & Games / General Paperback 1 1598631500 Usually ships in 24 hours 5.0 2 5

Another Great Book By Jonathan Harbour

I first bought Jon's book Game Programming all in one. Creating games in Allegro was fun and put me on a track that has not stopped. When I found out (per his website) that he had a game book on Java coming out I was excited because I am hoping to getting a job Java programming very soon. He does not teach you how to program in Java but instead shows you how to create games you would love to play in a simple, entertaining and productive way. I was able to breeze through the book and start playing around with vector graphics and sprites to test out how Java would implement them. The side effect is that you will be learning the language while creating something you can show. If you don't have some knowledge you feel you will need to use this book, I would recommend buying another Java book to keep by your side to answer any questions that the book may not answer for you. 5

Great book for beginners

I remember Jonathan showing me a rough draft of one of the book's chapters, and as I scanned through it, I instantly knew this was going to be a great book for beginners. The book primarily focuses on applets, so you can almost instantly guarantee that thousands of gamers on the web will play your games. He takes you through an actual game while learning, and the book results with a great demo game. I definitely suggest that you pick up this book. 0596007302 1584503262 1592730051 0672327473 159200900X 1598631500_us 1149507666000 us unread

1590596803 Beginning JavaScript with DOM Scripting and Ajax: From Novice to Professional (Beginning: from Novice to Professional) Book Christian Heilmann 17 July, 2006 Apress http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1590596803.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1590596803.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1590596803.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $39.99 $25.19 325700 Computer Books: Internet General Computers Computers - Languages / Programming Internet - General Internet - Web Site Design Internet - World Wide Web Programming Languages - CGI, Javascript, Perl, VBScript Java & variants Paperback 1 1590596803 Not yet released. 0321346939 0975240269 1590596145 1590595335 1590596803_us 1149507375000 us unread

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0764596543 Beginning Python (Programmer to Programmer) Book Peter C. Norton Alex Samuel Dave Aitel Eric Foster-Johnson Leonard Richardson Jason Diamond Aleatha Parker Michael Roberts 05 August, 2005 Wrox http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0764596543.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0764596543.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0764596543.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $34.99 $22.04 $19.58 $34.99 $19.62 303508 15ND45SPUBCTE Computer Bks - Languages / Programming Computer Books: Languages Computers Computers - Languages / Programming Programming Languages - General Programming Languages - Python Python (Computer program language) Reference - Beginner Guides Computers / Programming Languages / General Object-oriented programming (OOP) Programming languages Paperback 1 0764596543 Usually ships in 24 hours 4.5 3 5

Beginning Python

Beginning Python is book on programing using the python language. This book serves as a tutorial or guide to the python language for anyone. If all you know is how to save text files,then you can learn python using this book. If you are an expert programmer then this book then this would be great if you love Java, C++, Perl, or any other language you will have a great time learning Python 4

It makes learning Python seem easy...

My primary compliment to "Beginning Python" is that it makes learning Python seem easy. . The book covers a lot of Python basics like strings, numbers, operators, variables. It also covers advanced topics like network programming, extending Python through C/C++, threading, GUI programming and Python with XML. In the end it discusses about the new features of Python release 2.4. Last Chapter "Integrating Java with Python" covers - scripting with java applications, Jython, integrating Java and Jython, J2EE servlets in Jython. I find it useful for both python and java programmer. Book provides exercises at the end of every chapter, which can help you for self study and better understanding of the concepts. The explanations and the code throughout the book are easy to understand I think this book would be a good choice for someone in the beginner to intermediate range. If you are a programmer (C, C++, Java, Perl) then it may be a little slow for you. A lot of time is put into syntax, control flow, and basic data structures, it can get a little difficult to digest. I thought more could have gone into topics like "Writing Shareware and Commercial programs". I would highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to learn Python but is new to programming. 4

A good "getting started" title for Python...

Python is one of those programming languages I hear about a lot, but I've never taken the time to pick up a book and find out more about it. To fix that, I got a copy of Beginning Python (published by Wrox) by Peter Norton, Alex Samuel, David Aitel, Eric Foster-Johnson, Leonard Richardson, Jason Diamond, Aleatha Parker, and Michael Roberts. Not a bad title to use to get started... Contents: Introduction; Programming Basics and Strings; Numbers and Operators; Variables - Names for Values; Making Decisions; Functions; Classes and Objects; Organizing Programs; Files and Directories; Other Features of the Language; Building a Module; Text Processing; Testing; Writing a GUI with Python; Accessing Databases; Using Python for XML; Network Programming; Extension Programming with C; Writing Shareware and Commercial Programs; Numerical Programming; Python in the Enterprise; Web Applications and Web Services; Integrating Java with Python; Answers to Exercises; Online Resources; What's New in Python 2.4; Glossary; Index When I first started reading, I was a little disappointed at the target level. Up through about the Functions chapter, it's information that any programmer should already know (loops, variables, etc.) and would be best used by someone who had never programmed before in their life. While they do say that particular demographic is intended as a reader, I was hoping for more. From Classes on, it's material that squarely hits where intermediate programmers live and breathe, and it's at that point that the book takes off (in my opinion). Using the basic Python skills learned in the first section, you start to see how those concepts are applied in real programs that actually do stuff. And given the wide array of subjects they hit (C integration, GUI development, XML, etc.), you should quickly learn how best to use this language in many of the common situations you'll run into on a day-to-day basis. The writing style and format is consistent, as well as their use of examples throughout the book. You don't find yourself switching gears every few pages for some new contrived example that just came out of left field. This is a book I'll be holding onto in order to free up time to get some hands-on experience with Python. It gives me what I need to know along with numerous ways to apply that knowledge, and from there I can decide how much further to take my learning... 159059519X 0596007973 1590593715 0596002815 0596009402 0764596543_us 1149507414000 us unread

159059519X Beginning Python: From Novice to Professional (Beginning: From Novice to Professional) Book Magnus Lie Hetland 26 September, 2005 Apress http://images.amazon.com/images/P/159059519X.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/159059519X.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/159059519X.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $44.99 $29.69 $27.60 $44.99 $27.61 16919 15ND45SPUBCTE Computer Bks - Languages / Programming Computer Books: Languages Computers Computers - Languages / Programming Programming - General Programming Languages - CGI, Javascript, Perl, VBScript Programming Languages - General Programming Languages - Python Paperback 1 159059519X Usually ships in 24 hours 5.0 10 4

Nice reading

Still reading it though, it's a simple read. Small, simple examples and easy reading motivates any reader for further reading, exploring the language. Though I'm sure the 10 projects in the last chapters are very eductional, I think the author should've spent more time with "Files and stuff" and GUI-programming. Maybe, removing a couple of the projects would give more space and foundation in the areas mentioned? (Where's the pickle, Magnus?) Anyway, I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to learn the Python language. 5

Great Book

The title says it all - Beginning Python. Not beginning programmer. This book does assume that you have at least some (but not a lot) of programming experience. It moves quickly through the basics and along the way teaches some great methods of programming. It shows you the nuts and bolts and the why's and wherefores without leaving the reader feeling like they are being talked down to or listening to a PhD lecture on software engineering. The conversational tone is great. I think that this is a better book than O'Reilly's Learning Python. 4

Not exactly the best first book to use

I'm a little surprised to see such great reviews for this book, especially those reviews that claim this is the book you should start out with for Python. Granted, it all depends on what your background is, but I feel like if you know nothing about Python (even if you know another language), then this isn't the best book to start with. Thus far I've read two Python books: first, Learning Python; and second, Beginning Python (this book). Learning Python should, without a doubt, be the book to start with. It teaches Python from the ground up so that not only will you know how to write a function or a class, but you know what exactly is going on behind the scenes when all this is happening (but not in so much detail as to be over the heads of newcomers). Beginning Python, on the other hand, contains very cursory introductions to each element of Python. The core language is presented in the first 200 pages, each chapter being around 20 or so pages. After the first 20 pages, you are already introduced to functions and modules! Eventually these topics are covered again, but this book just moves too fast for a beginner. I suppose someone who is already a programmer will be able to pick up quickly on this fast-paced introduction, but even that person will be at a loss for how Python is working under the hood. Beginning Python doesn't even spend much time explaining how all Python 'variables' are only references to an object, and never contain the object itself. This is a fairly simple idea to grasp, but the consequences are so important that it really needs a somewhat lengthy section of its own (that's just an example of how the book moves too fast). But still, it's not a *bad* book. It was great for me because it served as a quick review of what I had already learned (more thoroughly) in Learning Python. Furthermore, later chapters discuss some of the more popular and effective third-party modules (i.e. py2exe, Beautiful Soup, wxPython) but again, not in very much detail. Each of these chapters is about 10 pages. Finally, there are the 10 projects at the end of the book. I've only read the first one of these so far. They seem fairly involved, and probably require a little more experimentation with the language before tackling. Overall, my opinion is this: Learning Python should be the first book anyone reads on the subject, especially newcomers to the language and hobbyist programmers, but even experienced programmers need that book. Beginning Python is a great review of the material because it moves through it quickly, but it is *not* a good introduction for exactly that same reason. The strongpoints of this book are that it exposes you to a wide variety of standard and third-party modules, so that after you have read the later chapters, you will at least know where to go for further information for just about any project you can think of. 1590593715 0596007973 1590593561 0596002815 1932394613 159059519X_us 1149507414000 us unread

1590596854 Beginning Spring 2: From Novice to Professional (Beginning: from Novice to Professional) Book Steven Devijver Seth Ladd Bram Smeets 25 September, 2006 Apress http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1590596854.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1590596854.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1590596854.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $44.99 $28.34 365354 Computer Books: Languages Computers Computers - Languages / Programming Programming Languages - Java Programming languages Paperback 1 1590596854 Not yet released. 1590596854_us 1149507618000 us unread

0688175384 Big Snake: The Hunt for the World's Longest Python Book Robert Twigger 20 June, 2000 William Morrow & Company http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0688175384.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0688175384.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0688175384.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $25.00 $0.79 $2.50 $3.34 577022 1964- Asia - General Biography / Autobiography Editors, Journalists, Publishers Literary Nature Nature/Ecology Reptiles Reptiles & Amphibians Size Snake hunting Snakes Travelers Twigger, Robert, Journeys Twigger, Robert Hardcover 1 0688175384 This item is currently not available. 2.5 5 2

A travel book without direction

Twigger is a great writer at publishing adventure novels in which he starts the quest but never seems to complete it. His books are about growing up and finding himself, but he rarely finds his subject (BIG SNAKE). A self-help book for the over educated who are looking at making their mark by desperately trying to find their niche in life ie: being a writer. 3

Snakes and more snakes

I liked this book - more of a travelogue than a snake book, but entertaining and inspiring. Went and saw some reticulated pythons afterwards, and thought about the world's longest snake... If you liked this book, try the Snakebite Survivor's Club also - hilarious and scary. 1

Big Ego: The Hunt for the World's Longest Whine

Well, as treatises on growing into manhood go, it's about average. What gets me is the title: why call it a hunt for a python? All the author hunted was other people to find a snake, and his own elusive maturity. I also cannot imagine going into such an endeavour so unprepared. It would have been more interesting, at least from a herp point of view, if a reticulated python hunted Twigger.Buy this book only if you have a man in your family that refuses to grow up, and you want to show him into what he could deteriorate. 0688175376 0688175384_us 1149507501000 us unread

0321442598 BIRT : A Field Guide to Reporting Book Diana Peh Alethea Hannemann Paul Reeves Nola Hague 06 October, 2006 Addison-Wesley Professional http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0321442598.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0321442598.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0321442598.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $49.99 $49.99 560709 Computer Bks - Languages / Programming Computer Books: Languages Computer Graphics - General Computers Computers - Languages / Programming New Business Enterprises Programming Languages - Java Computers / Programming Languages / Java Paperback 1 0321442598 Not yet released. 0321442598_us 1149507609000 us unread

0866226036 Boas & Pythons and Other Friendly Snakes Book John Coborn September, 1992 TFH Publications http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0866226036.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0866226036.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0866226036.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $29.95 $29.95 $0.65 $0.97 1778877 Nature/Ecology Pets Reptiles & Amphibians Hardcover 1 0866226036 Special Order 018214260363 0866226036_us 1149507586000 us unread

086622632X Boas & Pythons: Breeding and Care Book Erik D. Stoops Annette T. Wright October, 1993 TFH Publications http://images.amazon.com/images/P/086622632X.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/086622632X.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/086622632X.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $29.95 $19.77 $5.98 $21.20 $6.99 556704 Animals General Pets Reptiles & Amphibians Hardcover 1 086622632X Special Order 2.5 4 1

Stay away from this book!

The only reason that I give this book a single star is for the pictures. Honestly, I couldn't belive what a complete waist of money this book was. The information that passed on as "the most up to date" was just laughable. Now make sure that your snake is eating a well balanced meal and that you supplement it properly. Hello....a mouse is a complete meal. That was the most blaringly obvious stupid comment. And yet there's like two or three pages devoted to that drivel. The authors don't have much experince to begin with and this book very obviously shows that. I don't understand how they possibly got a book deal in the first place! They talked about various health problems that they had with some of their snakes. Health problems that most if not all knowledgeable reptile keepers just don't come across. All the health problems they talked about were basically a result of the keeper (aka the authors) not knowing what they were doing and not having done enough research into the care and maintenance of their animal. Anwhow, I STRONGLY recommend that you stay as far away from this book as possible!!! 4

ALL ROUND GOOD BOOK!

THIS BOOK IS VERY GOOD FOR THE NEW SNAKE OWNER AND THE UNSURE. IT HAS USEFUL INFORMATION ON MANY DIFFRENT TYPES OF BOAS AND PYTHONS. THE BOOK DOES NOT USE "LARGE WORDS" THAT COULD CONFUSE READERS AND THOSE IT DOES THEY EXPLAIN THEM IN THE BACK. I WORK IN A PETSHOP AND THE BOOK IS REALLY CLOSE TO THE REAL THING. IT'S A GOOD BOOK FOR GETTING STARTED. IT ALSO HAS GREAT PICTURES. 3

Not enough information on breeding, excellent photographs

It has excellent photos and it covers most of the boas and pythons you may purchase but, if you already have the snakes and you are looking for information about breeding them this book doesn't help much. It has enough information to help you make up your mind if you still haven't decided on what species to buy for breeding. 0812096266 0812093658 1882770358 0764122797 1882770218 086622632X_us 1149507586000 us unread

0836814274 Boas, Pythons, and Anacondas (Fangs! An Imagination Library Series) Book Eric Ethan September, 1995 Gareth Stevens Publishing http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0836814274.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0836814274.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0836814274.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $22.00 $22.00 $4.34 $32.21 1863759 Anaconda Animals - Reptiles & Amphibians Boa constrictor Boidae Children's 4-8 - Nature Children's Books/Ages 4-8 Nonfiction Children: Grades 3-4 Juvenile literature Nature - General Pythons Library Binding 1 0836814274 Usually ships in 4 to 6 weeks 0836814274_us 1149507535000 us unread

0809280469 Brand New Monty Python Book Book Monty Python March, 1976 NTC/Contemporary Publishing http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0809280469.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0809280469.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0809280469.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $32.00 $13.83 $14.00 1726748 30D027HMFOJDQ Hardcover 0809280469 This item is currently not available. 5.0 1 5

You gotta see this, no questions asked.

An excerpt from "16" magazine! Shocking first drafts by famous authors! "The London Casebook of Detective Rene Descartes!" A warning on hamsters! The page with the most words ever! The Adventures of Walter The Wallabee! ... All this and more in these 96 wonderous pages of Python goodness, sandwiched between these two magnificent pieces of cardboard. This book is a MUST for Python lovers, or even for those who are just getting into Python! Either way, I guarantee you, at least 3 minutes alone with this book and you will be laughing your head off. But beware: this book is heavily detailed, so you gotta have eyes to read this! I mean EYES! 0809280469_us 1149507595000 us unread

0413741400 BRAND NEW MONTY PYTHON PAPPERBOK Book MONTY PYTHON 13 March, 2000 Methuen Publishing Ltd http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0413741400.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0413741400.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0413741400.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $24.23 $103.80 $125.00 3212863 3K5O1N3EV08AQ Paperback 0413741400 This item is currently not available. 0413741400_us 1149507501000 us unread

189726609X Brilliant Idiot's Where God Went Wrong (Brilliant Idiot, Where God Went Wrong) Book Corinne Friesen & Brilliant Idiot Corinne Friesen 2004 Brilliant Idiot Publications http://images.amazon.com/images/P/189726609X.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/189726609X.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/189726609X.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $19.95 3135008 Audio CD Unabridged 189726609X This item is currently not available. 189726609X_us 1149507423000 us unread

0975841947 Build Your Own AJAX Web Applications Book Matthew Eernisse 01 June, 2006 SitePoint http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0975841947.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0975841947.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0975841947.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $39.95 332435 Computer - Internet Computer Books: Languages Computers Data Transmission Systems - Broadband Integrated Services Digital Networks (Isdn) Internet - Application Development Internet - Web Site Design Programming Languages - CGI, Javascript, Perl, VBScript AJAX, DHTML, JavaScript, Web Standards, Web Accessiblity Computers / Programming Languages / CGI, JavaScript, Perl, VBScript Internet Paperback 1 0975841947 This item is currently not available. 0975841947_us 1149507375000 us unread

0596102356 Building Scalable Web Sites : Building, scaling, and optimizing the next generation of web applications Book Cal Henderson 16 May, 2006 O'Reilly Media, Inc. http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0596102356.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0596102356.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0596102356.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $39.99 $25.19 $24.13 $39.99 $22.88 4652 Computer - Internet Computer Bks - Internet Computer Books: Web Programming Computers Internet - Web Site Design Internet - World Wide Web Programming - Software Development Ajax, DHTML, Flickr, Web 2.0, rich internet applications, JavaScript, Asynchronous XML Computers / Internet / World Wide Web Paperback 1 0596102356 Usually ships in 24 hours 097669400X 0596008031 0596101694 1932394699 1590596145 0596102356_us 1149507375000 us unread

1590596870 Building Search Applications with Lucene and Nutch Book Jon Shoberg 24 October, 2006 Apress http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1590596870.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1590596870.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1590596870.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $44.99 $44.99 522639 Computer Books: Languages Computers Programming Languages - Java Java & variants Paperback 1 1590596870 Not yet released. 1932394281 1932394613 1590596161 097669400X 1590596870_us 1149507618000 us unread

1882770838 Burmese Pythons: Plus Reticulated Pythons And Related Species Book Philippe De Vosjoli Roger Klingenberg 01 September, 2005 BowTie Press http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1882770838.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1882770838.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1882770838.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $8.95 $8.95 $4.95 $8.95 $5.70 372829 Burmese pythons as pets Nature Nature/Ecology Pets Reptiles & Amphibians Reptiles, Amphibians & Terrariums Paperback 1 1882770838 Usually ships in 24 hours 0812093658 0764111248 1882770412 0812096266 0894649957 1882770838_us 1149507414000 us unread

1593271190 Code Craft: The Practice of Writing Excellent Craft Book Pete Goodliffe 01 August, 2006 No Starch Press http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1593271190.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1593271190.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1593271190.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $39.95 $25.17 Computer Books: Languages Computer programming Computer software Computers Computers - Languages / Programming Development Programming - General Programming languages (Electronic computers) Computers / Programming / Software Development Programming, software development, code, coding, program, develop, developer, software, C#, .NET, C, C++, Java, Python, Perl Paperback 1 1593271190 Not yet released. 1593271190_us 1149507414000 us unread

097131974X Complete Chondro: A Comprehensive Guide to the Care and Breeding of the Green Tree Python Book Greg Maxwell Trooper Walsh 2003 ECO Publishing with Zoo Book Sales http://images.amazon.com/images/P/097131974X.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/097131974X.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/097131974X.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg 1041713 2AX28505ZJUUW Hardcover 097131974X This item is currently not available. 5.0 1 5

A Marvelous Tome on Morelia Viridis

I absolutely love this book. The Complete Chondro is literally 'in a nutshell,' not 'all' you need to know about green tree pythons, but a great source of information in one book. The book is written by well known breeder Greg Maxwell from his own experience and features everything from history of how this wonderful snake came to the United States, locality types, what you need for this type of snake along with breeding and many other helpful things. There are numerous images of this beautiful snake, from pictures of neonates to various moprhs of adults. I highly recommend this book to anyone who is interested in Green Tree Pythons or herps in general! The author is honest and ethical - truly a treasure! 097131974X_us 1149507457000 us unread

0470031603 Computer Graphics for Java Programmers Book Leendert Ammeraal Kang Zhang 29 December, 2006 John Wiley and Sons Ltd http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0470031603.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0470031603.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0470031603.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg Computer Software Packages Paperback 0470031603 This item is currently not available. 3.5 10 1

Only buy this book if you have to...

I don't know if the other reviewers read the same book as I did, I think I was tricked by the bookstore and given the wrong book as a cruel joke. So, let me tell you the reasons why this book was given 1 star: 1) If you a native spaker of the English language, you won't understand this book. Chapter 5 starts out with, "We now turn to the exciting subject of 3D graphics." Who writes like that anymore? The English in this book is very difficult to understand. The author repeatedly states the same piece of information over and over again in different words. At times you begin to wonder if the author is just trying to fill the pages. It's very apparent that English is not the author's first, second, third, forth, or fifth language. After reading the first several pages, one might conclude that perhaps author had the proof reading and translation assistance of a poorly trained monkey. 2) The author has a bad habit of putting words in quotes expecting the reader to know what they mean. Example is on page 112 with 'superpixels'. Any person who has ever taken a technical communications class knows that one should never assume the audience to know topic specific words. If you look up 'superpixel(s)' in the index, it lists 112. Great. The Pros: While this book greatly frustrates me, it isn't all bad. The concepts that the author presents are coherent. His execution could use work. Conspiracy Theory: This book is not worth the price they charge for it. This is one of those cases where the publishing company and the universities got together and decided to create a textbook. Anytime this happens, they also agree to rip-off the students as much as possible. One day someone will compile a list of books that aren't worth their weight in coconut shavings, because the publisher and universities were greedy, and this book will rank top 5 of that list. If you're a student and you're going to fail the class if you don't buy this book - try to get it used. If you're interested in learning about computer graphics, I cannot recommend this book to you. If you are thinking about buy this book, Jonathan Swift recommends you attempt to steal it first and get arrested. The time that you spend sitting in a cell will give you an opportunity to ponder about something meaningful. Or spend your energies being angry at something else other then this book. 2

Decent writing, painful pricing

Although providing nice code examples and clearly explaining the mathemantics of standard computer graphics algorithms, its ~270 (paperback) pages do not cover the scope or detail of the ~1100 (hardcover) pages in "Computer Graphics" by Foley, van Damm, et al., which costs roughly the same amount. John Wiley & Sons needs to be brought to task on the pricing issue, as the high price really shadows the real value (and business opportinity) of the book. My conspiracy theory is that the publisher is aiming to market it as a text book where students can't counter being ripped off by a publisher endorced by a professor or university. 4

Worth every Penny

That book was really worth every Penny. I hope Leen Ammeraal (author) continues the tradition in writing such comprehensive textbooks that are generous with information as well as code. If you're taking an introductory course in Computer Graphics and you've already taken an introductory course in JAVA , then that is all you need to optimize your use of this book. Once again, worth every penny. 0470031603_us 1149507608000 us unread

184628287X Computer Simulations with Mathematica and Java Book Paul Wellin Todd Gayley December, 2006 Springer http://images.amazon.com/images/P/184628287X.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/184628287X.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/184628287X.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $69.95 $69.95 Computers / Computer Science Hardcover 184628287X Not yet released. 184628287X_us 1149507609000 us unread

0812550005 Conan and the Treasure of Python Book John Maddox Roberts August, 1994 Tom Doherty Assoc Llc http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0812550005.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0812550005.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0812550005.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $4.99 $4.95 $15.55 761852 1E6A7P7YB4SF7 Fantastic fiction Fantasy Fantasy - General Fiction - Fantasy Paperback 1 0812550005 This item is currently not available. 3.5 3 3

Conan the Ape

Amen to killercroc. JMR does capture the personality of Conan better than anyone since Robert Howard. This, however, is not one of JMR's best. It's been about three months since I read this book and I can only vaguely remember what it was about. I had to look it up on line for a reminder. I would still recommend it as a solid entry into the Conan saga. Again, as long as Conan keeps on moving through the world Howard created, opening that world up to us with each unfolding chapter, then you will be a satisfied reader. 3

There is nothing bad to say about this book

As one of the reviewers said already, Roberts portreys Conan as a barbarian who is more civilized than the so called "noble" people that surround him. That aspect is shown in every one of Roberts novels. In my opinion he is the only author that does not destroy the image of Conan that was created by Robert Ervin Howard.In this book Conan travels far south to recover mysterious treasure of Python. Less you know about this book, will make the reading more interesting....Very Highly recommended 5

A Fabulous Journey...

This is maybe my favorite non-Howard Conan adventure. We get to follow Conan and company on a great voyage through Stygian waters, then into the Black Kingdoms, into the heart of a decadent kingdom...With this book, Roberts proves himself Howard's equal in action sequences, but there's more to a Conan story than swordplay. Roberts portrays Conan as having his own sense of nobility and honor, and he endows the supporting characters with their own motivations and traits. By the end of the book, you are almost sad to see these characters depart (one way or another). It's an impressive job, and I hope they reprint this novel soon so more people can read it and enjoy the journey. 0812524934 0812524896 0812552687 0812514149 0812500822 0812550005_us 1149507586000 us unread

0470093552 Concurrency : State Models and Java Programs Book Jeff Magee Jeff Kramer 11 July, 2006 John Wiley & Sons http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0470093552.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0470093552.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0470093552.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $55.00 $34.65 308361 Computer Bks - Languages / Programming Computer Books: Languages Computers Computers - Languages / Programming Java (Computer program language) Parallel programming (Computer science) Programming - Software Development Programming Languages - Java Computers / Programming Languages / Java Java & variants Hardcover 1 0470093552 Not yet released. 0321349601 0470093552_us 1149507619000 us unread

0321256174 Concurrent Programming in Java(TM) : Design Principles and Patterns (3rd Edition) (Java (Addison-Wesley)) Book Douglas Lea 19 May, 2006 Addison-Wesley Professional http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0321256174.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0321256174.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0321256174.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $44.99 $44.99 391627 Computer Bks - Languages / Programming Computer Books: Languages Computers Programming Languages - Java Computers / Programming Languages / Java Paperback 1 0321256174 Not yet released. Concurrent Programming in Java, 2nd Edition surveys a wide field of research in parallelism and concurrency and shows how to do more with multithreading in Java with dozens of patterns and design tips. Written for the advanced Java developer, this book offers a comprehensive tour of leading-edge thinking about parallel coding processes. Within the dozens of techniques and tips offered here, this book accomplishes at least two goals. First, it shows how concurrency is implemented by default within Java, with material on how built-in features (like the synchronized keyword and its memory model) can be expected to perform when dealing with multiple threads. Naturally, Java threads themselves are also covered, including priorities, scheduling, and the like. Much of this book looks at ways to improve performance of concurrent code beyond the simple default strategies. After defining criteria for measuring concurrent code (such as safety and "liveness," a measure of running live threads effectively), the book presents dozens of techniques for letting threads work together safely. For the working Java programmer, coverage of patterns that have been implemented in the downloadable java.concurrency package will be the most immediately useful. (Within this nearly encyclopedic survey, short code snippets are used for every pattern and concept.) Though theoretical at times, this book offers plenty of ideas and sample code to get you started thinking of ways to improve multithreaded code. Impressively comprehensive, Concurrent Programming in Java offers a veritable bible of techniques for doing two things at once with threads in Java. It's a worthwhile guide to the state-of-the-art strategies for improving the performance of your Java threads. --Richard Dragan Topics covered: Threads and concurrency in Java, design considerations (safety, liveness, and performance), Before/After Patterns, layering, adapters, immutability and synchronization, deadlock, resource ordering, the Java Memory Model and concurrency, using the java.concurrency package, confinement, refactoring for concurrency, mutexes, read-write locks, recovering from failure, notifications, semaphores, latches, exchanges, transactions, one-way messages, worker threads, polling and event-driven I/O, parallelism techniques (fork/join, computation trees, and barriers), Communicating Sequential Processes (CSP). 4.0 48 2

5 for knowledge; 0 for the writing -> 2.5 -> 2

Sure he knows his stuff but doesn't have a clue on how to write. This is appallingly poorly written. It is one of the most ridiculously disorganized collections of academic 'verbage' (verbiage subsumes garbage) I have ever read. It's almost useless as a reference: its very non-linear (say non-deterministic almost) in concept elucidation (perhaps he's taken the notion of multithreading too much to heart and tried multi-threaded writing???). It's useless as a book to learn from- since learning by example is not just a way to learn, but the only way to learn (Einstein) and this book largely disavows examples. What it needs is another edition with a ghost writer. Seriously it's not good. Try Paul Hyde for a good intro to threads. While those at guru-ish level may love this book, those of us for whom threads represent a means to an end, not an end in and of themselves, would probably want to throw this book in frustration of the author's inability to structure a coherent sentence with a clear point. This meanders on like great uncle herb's war stories and is equally will sapping. Avoid if you can or check it out when you reach guru-ness. It's a good cure for insomnia though. 3

If you want to program concurency in Java you need this book

This is a kind of book you'll need to start developing concurrent systems in Java. It shows details of what should be done to safely handle patterns for concurrent programs. I beleive this book is a must for every developer who want to start learning concurrency design priciples for Java. 5

Great Threaded Programming Information for More than Java

This is the best book I have ever read on threading, and certainly applies well to other languages naturally (especially languages with a modern and mature thread library like Mono/.NET). Unlike other reviewers here, I encourage so-called "beginners" to read this book. He has plenty of examples so you will not get lost, and this *is* the right way to do things, so start with this one. 0201310058 193239415X 0596007124 1893115100 0672315858 0321256174_us 1149507666000 us unread

076851679X Constricting snakes (Dominie world of amphibians & reptiles) Book Graham Meadows 2002 Dominie Press http://images.amazon.com/images/P/076851679X.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/076851679X.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/076851679X.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg Boa constrictor Boidae Juvenile literature Pythons Snakes Unknown Binding 076851679X This item is currently not available. 076851679X_us 1149507458000 us unread

0737730056 Constrictors (Animals Attack!) Book Maurice Gray 23 October, 2005 KidHaven Press http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0737730056.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0737730056.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0737730056.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $23.70 $23.70 $15.00 $15.00 962227 Anaconda Animals - Reptiles & Amphibians Boidae Children's 12-Up - Nature Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Nonfiction Children: Grades 4-6 Juvenile Nonfiction Juvenile Zoological Sciences Juvenile literature Pythons Reptiles & Amphibians Snake attacks Library Binding 1 0737730056 Usually ships in 24 hours 0737730056_us 1149507414000 us unread

3540336893 Construction and Analysis of Safe, Secure, and Interoperable Smart Devices : Second International Workshop, CASSIS 2005, Nice, France, March 8-11, 2005, ... Papers (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) Book Gilles Barthe Benjamin Gregoire Marieke Huisman Jean-Luis Lanet 22 May, 2006 Springer http://images.amazon.com/images/P/3540336893.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/3540336893.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/3540336893.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $58.00 $58.00 Computer Books: Languages Computers Computers - Languages / Programming Operating Systems - General Programming - General Programming - Software Development Programming - Systems Analysis & Design Computers / Programming / Software Development Java VM technology Web services access control embedded devices formal methods formal verification mobile security mobile service security model checking privacy safety verification secure platforms security security policies smart cards smart devices systems security Paperback 1 3540336893 Usually ships in 24 hours 3540336893_us 1149507666000 us unread

6304402619 Contractual Obligation Book Monty Python Cdaris 18955 31 July, 2000 ARISTA RECORDS http://images.amazon.com/images/P/6304402619.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/6304402619.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/6304402619.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $10.98 4391027 Audio CD 6304402619 This item is currently not available. 6304402619_us 1149507501000 us unread

0131738860 Core JavaServer Faces (2nd Edition) Book David Geary Cay Horstmann 23 June, 2006 Prentice Hall PTR http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0131738860.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0131738860.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0131738860.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $49.99 $31.49 205508 Computer Books: Languages Computers Computers - Languages / Programming Programming Languages - Java Computers / Programming Languages / Java Paperback 1 0131738860 Not yet released. 4.0 22 5

Excellent thick book on web application development with JSF

Reading the Amazon reviews I suspected this to be a good book. But how excellent it actually was, caught me by surprise. You get introduced slowly. The authors do not even hesitate to make pedagogically motivated design shortcuts at the beginning and they comment what they will improve later on. The code examples are complete. Though you rarely ever need all of it, it strongly helped me not to get lost in the later chapters. The code quality is top notch with a slight taste of C. It just feels good to read the code and one learns for even completely different software contexts. If you only want a thin book on JSF the first six chapters (270 pages) will do an excellent job on that too. In fact this would be even the better book. The style is unpretentious and the intellectual muscle of the authors is just amazing. Are there problems? Well I think yes, in the more advanced chapters. The authors are just too competent. The consequence: In the later chapters you learn how you could do much, and I mean really much more, than is directly covered by the JSF standard. This might be a life saver, if you really do have any of those specific problems. In a general purpose book this might encourage people to overstretch their own system. This book focuses only on the development side of the issues. If you want to learn the visual or the usability part of web applications, you have to turn to other books. In summary I do highly recommend this book to people interested in JSF, Web development and software in general. 2

It's OK, but there are better books on JSF available

Despite the fact that I really like David Geary's other books, I was pretty disappointed with this one. Why: It doesn't flow well, the examples just aren't very good, the chapters get repetitive, and overall, the book feels more like a collection of magazine articles than a unified whole. Way too much space is devoted to code listings (many repeated verbatim several times) and screen captures of directory listings. Take a look at the sample chapters to see this. In fact, most of the book is available as sample chapters online anyway.... If you want to really understand how JSF works, I recommend 'Mastering JavaServer Faces' by Dudney, Lehr, Wills and Mattingly. Using that book you can seriously understand how JSF functions and how to use it effectively. I wish I had started there! If you just need a cookbook approach, the JSF examples and JSF tutorial from Sun are more useful. 3

Oldish, bad examples, and scratches only surfaces

Despite the high ratings of the this book, I do not recommend it to people who seek in-depth walkthroughs of JSF. The book is too brief in most of the JSF topics, and gives examples without much explanations. You see 1/5 ~ 1/4 of the book filled with codes, and some even are incomplete. Worst of all, most of the examples are barely scratching the surfaces of the features of JSF. When we talk about JSF now, we expect to use an visual editor to do the tedious job of editing the meta files, codings, etc., or something less time-consuming other than asking the reader to modify the meta file after each change. The book did go through an *overview* of the IDEs, but in the end it chose to use ant to do the job, which I believe is the author's flavor. However, all the book examples asks you to manually edit the meta files by hand, and the spaces used to put the contents of the meta files after each change just wastes a lot of spaces in the book. Near the end of the book, the author failed horribly to include Strut's Tile in the topics. Again, scratching only the surface of Tile, the author leaves reader a handful of skins, and no meat! In conclusion, I find this book good for only overviewing JSF, for practical coding, developing, and in-depth JSF knowledge, I suggest something else. 1932394125 193239415X 0596005393 1932394613 0471462071 0131738860_us 1149507666000 us unread

0132269937 Core Python Programming (2nd Edition) Book Wesley J. Chun 18 August, 2006 Prentice Hall PTR http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0132269937.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0132269937.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0132269937.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $39.99 $25.19 476001 Computer Books: Languages Computers Computers - Languages / Programming Programming Languages - General Programming Languages - Python Computers / Programming Languages / General Paperback 1 0132269937 Not yet released. 4.0 21 3

Decent but you can do better

The text covers a wide range of topics but doesn't dive very deep. The font in the book is pretty large and there is copious amounts of whitespace that is wasted. It would be a decent read through for a beginner-to-immediate person but you will need to do much more to round out your Python knowledge. 5

Easy read to get you up and running

I've been a big fan of the Core programming books, including the Core Java volumen 1/2 series. This book I found while skimming my local library and decided to give this little language a try. I understand that this is an "outdated" book that covers Python 2.0, the latest being 2.4.x as of this writing. However, the material covered in this book is still very valuable. The author does a good job of introducing the language and arguing why Python should grab your interest as an easy to read, easy to maintain, easy to learn language. Several chapters into the book, without writing a single line of code, I could already understand exactly what the code is doing. Python, as taught in this book, sells itself as a very understandable language. Furthermore, the book provides excercises in the end of each chapter that helps you think in Python when trying to solve the problems. If you've really studied the chapters, the solution to these questions will seem very obvious. As the Python adage goes, "there's only one obvious way of doing it." The overall format of this book should be a model for how new languages are treated. Get this book if you want to add Python to your programming tool chest. If you're already familiar with one programming language you'll be writing productive scripts in a matter of hours. If this is your first language, in the order of days! 5

Good book for beginning Python programmers

Definitely worth 5 stars. The book clearly explains its purpose, and the author makes his methodologies known in the beginning as to how he will approach teaching the language. His explanations are clear and concise, and it does not contradict the DOCS available on the Python web site. He's both humorous and informative, with a relaxed style of writing.The code in itself is neatly organized, clearly explained, and overall, it works. He does cover a lot of Python basics, the majority of the book are Python basics. He also covers advanced topics such as network programming, extending Python through C/C++ modules, and multithreading. All of which are important, being able to write distributed applications, writing responsive programs, and being able to extend the language are all equally important. Python's power is clearly explained and logically thought-out in this book. I would recommend it to anyone who wants to learn Python but are new to programming.As a side note, I would also take extra time and check out the DOCS themselves. The author is good, but by no means perfect, supplement the book with the DOCS, it'll help you out a lot more. I have plans on writing more complicated web services using Python, and this book will remain beside me as both a reference and a guide when I'm lost. 0596007973 0596002815 1592000738 0596000855 1590593715 0132269937_us 1149507414000 us unread

0131482602 Core Servlets and JavaServer Pages, Volume II (2nd Edition) (Core) Book Marty Hall Larry Brown Yaakov Chaikin 09 June, 2006 Prentice Hall PTR http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0131482602.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0131482602.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0131482602.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $49.99 $31.49 77258 Client-Server Computing - General Computer Books: General Computers Computers - Languages / Programming Programming Languages - Java Computers / Programming Languages / Java Paperback 1 0131482602 Not yet released. 076092036876 In the Java universe, the interface layer of the ubiquitous model-view-controller (MVC) software design paradigm is handled by either servlets of JavaServer Pages (JSP). The second edition of Core Servlets and JavaServer Pages, like its predecessor, documents these handy technologies fully and practically. Far more than a straight API reference, this book presents examples--complete with code and a listing or screen shot showing results--wherever possible. It's a fantastic strategy for communicating to programmers what they need to do in order to achieve the effects and behaviors they desire. What's new in the second edition? Lots, in terms of its eponymous software development environments: The book covers servlets 2.4 and JSP 2.0. The examples are more refined, too, and more attention is paid to supporting technologies like Web and database servers. The didactic approach of authors Marty Hall and Larry Brown is recipe-like. They typically begin with a statement of a problem to be solved, then discuss relevant aspects of the servlet or JSP API. A series of code listings follows, and screen shots showing results bring up the rear. The net effect is that it's easy to spot relevant sections in the table of contents, it's clear how implementation works (thanks to the extensive listings) and there's no doubt about what the results are supposed to be. More elaborate examples show how servlets and JSP work in shopping cart, auction, and other applications. This is a significant and worthwhile update to an important Java book. --David Wall Topics covered: Java servlets 2.4, JavaServer Pages (JSP) 2.0 (including the new expression language), HTML forms, JDBC database connectivity, and the details of how servlets and JSP are implemented in Apache Tomcat, Caucho Resin, and Macromedia JRun. 4.5 256 4

Great Read

Not a book for beginning programmers, however if you have minimal java experience and are proficient in other languages you will be able to figure it out. This book is an excellent read but has little reference value because it has no index. It is very informative if you are looking for something that explains the in's and out's and why's of .jsp and servlets, but if you are looking for lessons and sample code, you will have better luck looking for it online. But then again if you have experience, you can figure out the code yourself -not that difficult. P.S. There is a wealth of hints and code at java.sun.com That site coupled with this book was enough to get me on my way. 5

Excellent service - book brand new condition

Although used, the book was in brand-new condition. Arrived on time. 5

What you need to know about JSP and Servlet Programming.

This book presents a great introduction into the world of server side programming. Hall is an excellent writer and is considered to be the go-to man for JSP and Servlet development. This book is valuable to anyone interested in J2EE development. 0131482025 0131118269 0131422464 0596005407 0596005725 0131482602_us 1149507666000 us unread

1584504668 Creating Content Management Systems in Java Book Arron Ferguson 15 August, 2006 Charles River Media http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1584504668.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1584504668.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1584504668.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $49.95 $31.47 Computer Books: Languages Computers Computers - Languages / Programming Digital media Internet - Web Site Design Java (Computer program language) Management Multimedia systems Programming - General Computers / Programming / General Paperback 1 1584504668 Not yet released. 1584504668_us 1149507618000 us unread

2738494803 Dan le python : et autres contes sorciers Book Catherine Fourgeau Calpa S' 01 January, 2000 L'Harmattan http://images.amazon.com/images/P/2738494803.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/2738494803.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/2738494803.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $28.46 $24.30 Paperback 2738494803 This item is currently not available. 2738494803_us 1149507501000 us unread

078930290X Dark Knights and Holy Fools : The Art and Films of Terry Gilliam: From Before Python to Beyond Fear and Loathing Book Bob Mccabe 16 July, 1999 Universe http://images.amazon.com/images/P/078930290X.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/078930290X.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/078930290X.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $49.95 $10.90 $59.99 $38.22 1194032 Biography & Autobiography Biography/Autobiography Criticism and interpretation Entertainment & Performing Arts - General Film & Video - Direction & Production Film & Video - History & Criticism Film - Direction & Production Film - History & Criticism Gilliam, Terry Individual Directors And Producers Pop Arts / Pop Culture Performing Arts / General Hardcover 1 078930290X This item is currently not available. With Dark Knights and Holy Fools, film writer Bob McCabe has done a masterful job of depicting the evolution of a filmmaker and his vision. Terry Gilliam, of course, is the mind behind the bizarre and hilarious animations for Monty Python's Flying Circus, as well as the films Time Bandits, Brazil, and The Fisher King, among others. Using interviews with Gilliam and a few of his collaborators, McCabe takes readers on a chronological journey through the Python alum's work, going back as far as cartoons from his high school and college days. The book is gloriously stuffed with Gilliam's playfully wicked and distinctly rounded drawings--everything from political posters to stills from Python clips to pencilled storyboards for his films. The storyboards in particular are fascinating because they give insight into how Gilliam's mind works as he maps out his movies. Dark Knights and Holy Fools also offers interesting glimpses at the inner workings of the film industry. McCabe chronicles Gilliam's well-publicized battles with studios over budgets, running lengths, and less-than-sunny endings, illustrating the frustrations of trying to push art through a bureaucracy (and, to a lesser extent, the frustrations of trying to reason with a visionary). Just as engrossing are the accounts of how ideas that don't quite fit into one film can materialize in another, and the amount of pure serendipity that went into some of the indelible images Gilliam has created. This is a lavish and thoughtful treatment of one of our most unpredictable modern directors. --Ali Davis 4.5 7 5

Great Gilliam companion!

This is the perfect book for Terry Gilliam fans. It traces his history as an animator and director through the early years, into the Monty Python legacy and all the way to his feature films. This book is filled with color pictures from all of his projects, and even discusses some of the projects that never got off the ground. Very informative, but dated as this book came out right after the release of 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas'. Still, a great book if you truly enjoyed this innovative directors work! 5

A Fantastic, colorful showcase of the art & film of Gilliam

A fantastic art book about the work of Terry Gilliam. Some of his art has been reprinted elsewhere, but never in large format and never, in many cases, in full color. It is quite thourough, for what it is. The text and Bob McCabe's interviews give the reader the facts about what is being covered in each chapter. However, the artwork is the star of this book. If you want to know about Terry Gilliam, the artist, then this is the book for you. As Gilliam says in his intro 'you can write about them (the movies) all you want but these movies are basically there to be seen.' If you want to know about Terry Gilliam in detail, then the book Gilliam on Gilliam, which is basically a book length interview with Gilliam, is the book for you. I think the books compliment each other nicely: 'Gilliam on Gilliam' for everything you could possibly want to know about Terry Gilliam and 'Dark Knights & Holy Fools' for Terry Gilliam's quirky, beautiful, humorous art. 5

The right way to look at an imaginative director

Dark Knights & Holy Fools is a portrait of director Terry Gilliam expressed through comment, interviews with the great man, and his work itself. A descriptive thread goes through each stage of his work, from before his first public beginnings as a cartoonist, to each of his films, made and unmade.It's a biography, a reference, a wonderful collection of illustrations and photographs, and a celebration of a cinematic genius. If you enjoy Gilliam's work, I suspect this ought to be on your bookshelf. 0571202802 1578066247 0767809335 B0000844JJ 155783346X 078930290X_us 1149507534000 us unread

0974514071 Data Crunching : Solve Everyday Problems Using Java, Python, and more. Book Greg Wilson 20 April, 2005 Pragmatic Bookshelf http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0974514071.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0974514071.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0974514071.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $29.95 $18.87 $7.00 $29.95 $15.50 206785 242NMT3CMJW6X Computer Books: Languages Computers Computers - Languages / Programming Programming - Software Development Programming Languages - Java Programming Languages - Python Programming languages (Electronic computers) Computers / Programming Languages / CGI, JavaScript, Perl, VBScript Python, Java, data, algorithms, database Paperback 1 0974514071 Usually ships in 24 hours 4.5 7 4

Data Crunching: Solve Everyday Problems Using Java, Python, and More

This is an excellent introduction to typical data crunching applications. I found it to be very readable and filled with lots of examples. The author uses an economy of words, yet gets his points across. The book nicely complement books on Java or Python that are more targeted towards understanding the language specifics. The majority of the text is oriented towards processing non-numerical data (i.e. it is not a book about numerical analysis). Subjects considered are: text files, regular expressions (very nicely done by the way), XML, binary data, and relational databases. The author mentions the benefit of separating a data crunching application into the following components: input from processing and processing from output. He also stresses the need to be neat, not to needlessly repeat oneself, and sound testing methodologies. I recommend this book to whoever needs to mine data out of files. Often this material is not covered in University, but is often dealt with in real life. The book is refreshing to read. 5

Just the information you need to know to get rolling

There exists a set of tasks common to every software developer independent of the type of application developed and the language used. Concisely presenting these tasks to the new developer has always been a problem without burying the hapless soul under a pile of thick texts. The Pragmatic Bookshelf attempts to remedy this situation by giving the developer the knowledge they need to get the job done in a concise and, well, pragmatic format. One of the latest offerings in this outstanding series is "Data Crunching: Solving Everyday Problems Using Java, Python, and More" by Greg Wilson. The core of programming comes down to data manipulation. This may be parsing XML, reformatting text data, searching a database, or any other number of a host of tasks. Typically, figuring out how to do each of these would require digesting several books in order to just get to the nuts and bolts of simple operations. "Data Crunching" fills this hole by concisely presenting the minimum amount of information required to get the job done. Just the information you need to know to get rolling, without all the fluff. There are chapters on manipulating text files, XML documents, binary data, and relational databases. Included is a nice chapter on regular expressions, as well as a chapter on various "glue" topics relevant to solving data manipulation problems. Each chapter examines the tools and methods used to successfully manipulate the format of data being discussed. The examples used, and the book is chock full of them, are practical and relevant to the problems most often faced by developers. The examples are clearly illustrated and easy to follow. Wilson does a fine job of presenting things in the "pragmatic" style that readers familiar with other books in the series have come to know. Each chapter stands well on its own, so the book may be used as a reference, although it's concise and a pleasant enough read that it's also worth reading through once. Great for the new developer who hasn't yet gotten his feet wet with data manipulation, yet also a nice reference for those who have been around the block a bit more, "Data Crunching" makes a fine addition to the Pragmatic series and is definitely worth having on the bookshelf. 5

A gold mine for the software developer...

If you're reading this, you probably spend some quality time developing software. If you're developing software, chances are that you have to move data around on a daily basis (lucky you, if you don't). Be it getting data from one text format to another, moving data from a legacy system to a newer project's database, transforming XML into some more readable format for your boss or trying to get some useful data out of a former colleague's own binary format. Whatever you do in that manner, you're crunching data. Greg Wilson seems to have spent a lot of time crunching data and wants to share his wisdom with the world of pragmatic programmers. The book's coding focus is on working with Python and Java. I for my part haven't worked with Python yet, but being familiar with Ruby and Groovy it wasn't actually that hard to get an idea about what the Python code does (and I'm starting to like Python). So you've been warned about that. Being a big fan of The Pragmatic Programmers' bookshelf I didn't hesitate to buy a copy of "Data Crunching" as well. Since I spend a lot of time doing stuff with some more or less usable data I thought it might be a good read to get some fresh ideas. And as it turns out that was a good choice. Let's dive into the world of crunching data. Greg takes it easy on the reader in the introduction. He starts off with short examples of his professional career. This helps a lot to get an idea about what data crunching actually is. If you didn't already know it, reading the first chapter will give you some hints. The book is split up in a simple way. The next chapters will take you most of the data source/formats/crunching you'll most likely get in touch with. Mainly, that's text, regular expressions, XML, binary data, and relational databases. The book ends with a short chapter about the so called horseshoe nails, that being things that didn't fit anywhere else. But we'll get to that later. Not surprisingly, every chapter ends with a short summary. The (more or less) simplest data you can work with is text. While some genius programmer in some company whose products you use/once used can always come up with a great new text format that nobody will ever understand, there's a good chance that you'll at least get an idea of its meaning by looking at a text file. Greg takes an example from the introduction some steps further to show the basics of working with text files, and also how to work with and around the common pitfalls. Being a pragmatic book, you also get the idea of how to keep your data crunching code nice and clean, and how to deal with normalising, collision detection and, of course, the basics of working with the UNIX shell (the tool of my choice for dealing with most "normal" text). After reading this chapter you have a very good idea about dealing with text. Compressing more information about dealing with text should be almost impossible. Ah, regular expressions. The sheer joy of getting to know all the differences between grep, sed, awk, vim, Perl RE and the like just keeps me alive. Giving probably the best and shortest (but still understandable) introduction into working with regular expressions, Greg also gives good examples about what you can and what you can (or should) not do with regular expressions. Skimming through the pages you'll find that regular expressions can be applied to a lot of problems when it comes to handling input. Working with XML is something I never really got comfortable with, but I gotta say Greg could convince to change my mind here. He introduces the basic techniques to work with XML, being SAX and DOM, showing their strengths and their weaknesses. Pretty much nothing else to say here. Good thing is that he prefers showing how to work with JDOM (Java) and xml.dom.minidom (Python) rather than the clunky C-style DOM-API. The real beauty of working with XML is XPath, at least for me. On the other hand there is XSLT which is more verbose than useful. You might get a similar impression reading this chapter. But I'm not here to judge (well, not about XPath and XSLT, anyway), the day might come when I'll have to get back to XSLT. It's always good to know the choices you have. If you didn't get a chance to work with binary data yet, then next chapter is for you. One could discuss, if there's still a need to fiddle with binary data in the modern world. Or you could just give it shot. The examples are pretty straight-forward and understandable. Greg does an impressive job at working through the ups and downs of working with binary data. My fears certainly turned into curiosity after this chapter. After a short introduction into the world of 0 and its buddy 1 you'll learn how to pack and unpack different data types in fixed and variable formats with metadata. The chapter on relational databases starts off with the best summary to SQL I've read so far, including joins, nested queries and normalisation. Besides text, databases definitely are one of my favourite tools for data crunching, in whatever tongue of SQL they speak. The SQL you'll learn in this chapter might be almost everything you'll ever need for working with data from MySQL, Oracle, and the like. Since working with SQL in your code is not the hardest part here, Greg keeps the focus on showing what you can do with SQL itself. The grand finale is a small collection of so called horseshoe nails, miscellaneous techniques that will help you while crunching data that didn't really fit somewhere else. I definitely agree with Greg here in that those nails didn't fit anywhere else, but they're very much worth reading anyway. He introduces some basic tools like JUnit, diff and Make. He finishes with some short information about encoding/decoding, floating point arithmetic and working with dates and times. This book is a gold mine for the software developer, be it a beginner or one that crunches data on a daily basis for years. The examples are very applicable to the every day life of a developer. They are simple enough to be immediately understood, but powerful enough to be good snippets to reuse, work on or build own data crunching code on them. Greg does an amazing job at keeping the examples and the text at a level that is both understandable and helpful for every developer. The book should be on your (as well as on mine) shelf whenever you have to write a small script or program to work with yet another data format the world didn't know existed. Greg will keep you sane and on track with his book. It's, after all, a pragmatic book! Just like with the other ones (which I can recommend without hesitation), you'll find tons of information packed into an entertaining, but nonetheless helpful book. 0974514047 0974514063 097669400X 0974514055 0974514039 0974514071_us 1149507414000 us unread

013237045X Data Structures and Abstractions with Java (2nd Edition) Book Frank M. Carrano 31 July, 2006 Prentice Hall http://images.amazon.com/images/P/013237045X.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/013237045X.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/013237045X.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $104.00 $104.00 Computer Books: Database Computer Books: Languages Computers Computers - Languages / Programming Data Structures Database Management - General Programming - Object Oriented Programming Programming - Systems Analysis & Design Programming Languages - Java Computers / Programming / Systems Analysis & Design Hardcover 1 013237045X Not yet released. 2.0 1 2

Mediocre

Too complicated to use as a tutorial, and too simple to use as a reference. This book tries to be both and does a poor job of it. Buy this book if you absolutely have to (like I did, for a class at the U of MN); otherwise I'm sure there are other books out there that can do a better job.P.S. - I found at least one typo in chapter 1. Can you find it? :-) 0072930330 0763718165 076370444X 0321278658 0471476021 013237045X_us 1149507618000 us unread

0131986198 Data Structures From the Outside In : With Java Genetics Book Sesh Venugopal 01 November, 2006 Prentice Hall http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0131986198.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0131986198.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0131986198.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $104.00 $104.00 Computer Books: Database Computers Computers - Languages / Programming Data Structures Database Management - General Object-Oriented Programming Programming - Object Oriented Programming Programming Languages - Java Computers / Programming Languages / Java Hardcover 1 0131986198 Not yet released. 0131986198_us 1149507609000 us unread

0471478083 Data Structures in Java Book Tamassia 12 October, 2007 John Wiley & Sons Inc http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0471478083.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0471478083.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0471478083.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg Computer Programming Paperback 0471478083 This item is currently not available. 0471478083_us 1149507608000 us unread

0321392795 Data Structures in Java : From Abstract Data Types to the Java Collections Framework Book Simon Gray 01 September, 2006 Addison Wesley http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0321392795.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0321392795.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0321392795.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $88.00 $88.00 2653638 Computer Bks - Languages / Programming Computer Books: Languages Computers Computers - Languages / Programming Programming Languages - Java Computers / Programming Languages / Java Paperback 1 0321392795 Not yet released. 0321392795_us 1149507609000 us unread

0321333020 Design Patterns in Java(TM) (2nd Edition) (Software Patterns Series) Book Steven John Metsker William C. Wake 18 April, 2006 Addison-Wesley Professional http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0321333020.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0321333020.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0321333020.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $49.99 $49.99 $34.44 $37.85 238451 Computer Books: Languages Computers Computers - Languages / Programming Java (Computer program language) Programming Languages - Java Software patterns Computers / Programming / Object Oriented Hardcover 1 0321333020 Usually ships in 24 hours 5.0 1 5

for new and intermediate Java programmers

Metsker, in collaboration with Wake, has released a counterpart to his earlier book, "Design Patterns in C#". Essentially, it covers the same design patterns, but now implemented in Java code. The authors readily point out that the book is directed at a new or intermediate Java programmer. Experienced Java coders probably [or should] already have written such patterns, based on their prior knowledge. The book takes you beyond the elementary syntactical issues of Java. The pedagogy also includes frequent problems interwoven into the text. These have answers! [At the back of the book.] One reason given by the authors for including the problems is simply that you can get good experience with patterning, if you tackle them. A cheaper and safer alternative than trying out patterns for the first time on actual workplace problems. None of the problems are very intricate. But they expose enough of the essence of the patterns for your understanding. Of course, aside from actual coding, patterns are now forming part of the standard vocabulary of professional programmers. If you are not a programmer, but have to interact with them, then the text can be good background. 0321293533 1932394583 0201633612 0596007124 0131858580 0321333020_us 1149507666000 us unread

047175157X Developing Chemical Information Systems : An Object-Oriented Approach Using Enterprise Java Book Fan Li 10 November, 2006 Wiley http://images.amazon.com/images/P/047175157X.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/047175157X.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/047175157X.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $250.00 $250.00 Chemistry - Physical & Theoretical Computer - Internet Online Services - General Applications of Computing Laboratory techniques, experiments Science / Chemistry / Physical & Theoretical Hardcover 1 047175157X Not yet released. 047175157X_us 1149507609000 us unread

0470090251 Developing Java Software Book Russel Winder Graham Roberts 18 August, 2006 John Wiley & Sons http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0470090251.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0470090251.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0470090251.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $65.00 $65.00 3307247 Application software Computer Books: Languages Computers Computers - Languages / Programming Development Java (Computer program language) Object-oriented programming (Computer science) Programming Languages - CGI, Javascript, Perl, VBScript Programming Languages - Java Computers / Programming Languages / Java Java & variants Paperback 1 0470090251 Not yet released. 4.0 11 5

Good practical mix

Quite a nice resource. One thing that hasn't been mentioned, I think, is that this book covers data structures. I looked around for some time for an enjoyable book that showed how to implement the standard data structures in Java, till I found this. I also like the case studies later on. Very useful! 5

This book is very good for High School students (and older)

This book provided a very good introduction for me to Object Oriented programming. Although I had previous knowledge of other programming languages, I never knew anything about Object Oriented programming. The authors give an OO approach to the language, explaining what objects are and why we use them instead of linear programming. Java seemed to me as one of the hardest languages to learn when I was 13, but last year when I got this book (I was 15 then), I was able to master Core Java and basic AWT/Swing in a matter of weeks (3 to be precise). I recommend this book to anyone who hasn't had any luck learning Java well before. Since I DID have programming knowledge before, I'm not in a position to recommend it for starters -- but please give it a try. 5

This book is very good for High School students (and older)

0957921896 DHTML Utopia Modern Web Design Using JavaScript & DOM Book Stuart Langridge 01 June, 2005 SitePoint http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0957921896.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0957921896.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0957921896.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $39.95 $25.17 $22.59 $39.95 $23.15 163668 1PCSJJHRTRNNF Computer Books: Languages Computers Computers - Languages / Programming DHTML (Document markup language) Internet - Web Site Design JavaScript (Computer program language) Programming Languages - CGI, Javascript, Perl, VBScript Programming Languages - HTML Web site development Computers / Internet / Web Site Design DHTML, Dynamic HTML, DOM, Document Object Model, JavaScript, CSS, Cascading Style Sheets, Jscript, Ajax, Remote Scriping Paperback 1 0957921896 Usually ships in 24 hours 3.5 21 4

Complicated but definately worth reading

(this was originally published on www.last-child.com) This is a difficult book to read for non-javascript programmers. If you are more comfortable with HTML and CSS, I'd recommend reading Jeremy Keith's DOM Scripting first. Keith explains the theories behind this book. That said, I did learn enough from DHTML Utopia to not look like a complete idiot during my job interview with Yahoo. This book is filled with project examples for you to follow along with. I will say that I tried several of the examples and had mixed results. I visited the book's web site to get updated code. If you've already worked with Javascript, this is a great book to have on the shelf. If you are a rookie, start with Jeremy Keith and follow up with DHTML Utopia. 2

Definitely NOT a book for beginners

As a developer with no prior JavaScript experience, I've been very disappointed with this book. In the Introduction section, the author says "Some experience with JavaScript might also be useful, but it is by no means critical" (Page VIII) which isn't true. Throughout the book, the author will keep assuming (implicitly) that you already have a good programming background (he uses a more complex logic in his code),and will leave many things unexplained or explained too late. This alone will easily guarantee frustration. NO BOOK EVER frustrated me that much. Another issue is that the book uses some very complicated examples with complex logic. Unlike other decent coding books, instead of starting with simple functional examples and developing them\it as you read a chapter, the author uses one big example and "tries" to explain it part by part throughout the chapter. This might force you to "memorize" the script(s) since they contain too much code to understand (which is not the point). To make sure if the examples of the book suit you or not, download the free sample chapters from Sitepoint.com and check the "table highlight" example at the end of chapter 3. That's how most of the examples will be presented. (with more code of course) Now don't get me wrong, the topics covered in this book are great, but it seems that the only people who will really appreciate it are those who already have a good background in JavaScript (logic,functions,methods...etc) NOT beginners like myself. So if you're trying to learn JavaScript\DOM, then go find a better book (such as "DOM scripting"). 1

Avoid this like the plague

This is without doubt the worst book on DHTML/Javascript that I've ever read. The author tries to be cute, funny and authorative but ends up just plain painful. The examples are over-long and artificial, and would be difficult to incorporate into a real world application. The author peppers the book with snazzy shots like "It's the modern way!" but rarely explains the benefits of the methodology he's pushing, and glosses over any shortcomings. For instance, in discussing regular expressions he provides a simple expression for a telephone number, then points out that it's seriously flawed. But it's "suitable for our discussion" so onward we press, and a correct solution is never provided. Bad luck if you were after such a beast. (Footnotes abound - often just URLs to now broken links - so you have to wonder why he couldn't have provided the solution at the bottom of the page.) The part on Ajax is a joke - he just plugs in an out-of-date version of the Sarissa library and never scratches below the surface. Beware. 0957921888 1932394613 1590595823 1590595335 0764579088 0957921896_us 1149507375000 us unread

1846283795 Digital Image Processing in Java Book Wilhelm Burger Mark Burge March, 2007 Springer http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1846283795.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1846283795.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1846283795.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $69.95 $69.95 Computer Books: General Computer Graphics - General Computers Computers - Other Applications Electronics - General Computers / Computer Graphics / General Hardcover 1 1846283795 Not yet released. 1846283795_us 1149507608000 us unread

3540326510 Distributed Event-Based Systems Book Gero Mühl Ludger Fiege Peter Pietzuch August, 2006 Springer http://images.amazon.com/images/P/3540326510.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/3540326510.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/3540326510.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $79.95 $79.95 2060526 Computer Books: General Computers Computers - Communications / Networking Networking - General Operating Systems - General Programming - Software Development CORBA Computers / Networking / General IBM WebSphere MQ Java Messaging Services JMS TIBCO Rendezvous distributed systems event-based systems information dissemination middleware notification services Hardcover 1 3540326510 Not yet released. 3540326510_us 1149507618000 us unread

1590593561 Dive Into Python Book Mark Pilgrim 19 July, 2004 Apress http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1590593561.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1590593561.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1590593561.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $39.99 $25.19 $2.94 $39.99 $2.95 10815 316CFTT2VZEGP 178DD0NBCBET0 T6E1W3BPCRXW Computer Books: General Computers Computers - Languages / Programming General Programming Languages - Python Python (Computer language) Python (Computer program language) Computers / Programming / General Paperback 1 1590593561 Usually ships in 24 hours 689253155615 5.0 20 5

Instant favorite

Very nice.. I had to buy this one after having read the whole PDF version... It's not a beginner's guide - but that was pretty obvious. I think it's unfair to take away stars for that. ESPECIALLY because everybody can preview the PDF version online! 5

Polishing your Python

Dive into Python moves quickly into Objects and puts them to use in processing XML, HTML, and making RPC/SOAP calls. Many of the more powerful Python features are exposed like introspection, streams, unit testing, and generators. In addition, many gems are dropped along the way(classes as behaiving like dict...). DIPy is really a concise, intensive immersion into deep Python very skillfully done. The first time I read DIPy I was fascinated but knew I was missing a lot. I backtracked and read Beginning Python by Magnus Lie Hetland and some other basic Python books. DIPy does not dwell on the basics - it tells you once and expects you to make sure you understand before moving on. I am reluctant to admit it but it wasn't untill the third read where everything made sense(Chapter 17 is especially wonderful). It also became clear that DIPy ventures where no other Python book goes and the author accomplished something extraordinary. In short, DIPy was not a quick read but well worth the effort. 2

essentially "Quick Python" second edition albeit abridged

I'm starting a new Python job soon and so picked up a hard copy of Dive Into Python. The book does jump right in with non-trivial examples. However I find all the references to external resources/websites disconcerting: these must certainly work much better in the free online version of the book. Furthermore I had occasion to pull my old copy of the "Quick Python Book" off the shelf in the meantime, and "Dive Into Python" is formatted in much the same way with footnotes embedded in the code examples. However, Dive Into Python does not pull it off as well as its predecessor. First, the footnotes don't stand out well enough: in the Quick Python Book they are bolder. Also there is too much wasted white space: in the Quick Python Book sometimes the footnotes were explained directly in the right hand margin, in Dive Into Python they always take up new lines under the code sample. These issues combined with a larger font and smaller page, and although the two books are approximately the same length in pages, I'm sure the Quick Python Book contains significantly more material. Yes Dive Into Python is much more up to date, but, other things being equal, compared to its predecessor, it's quite disappointing, at least in hardcopy. 1590593715 0596007973 0596002815 0596001886 1590593294 1590593561_us 1149507423000 us unread

0425030849 Dr. Fegg's Nasty Book of Knowledge Book Terry Jones 1976 Berkley Publishing Corporation http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0425030849.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0425030849.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0425030849.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $29.40 $79.50 765775 Paperback Large Print 0425030849 This item is currently not available. 0425030849_us 1149507595000 us unread

3540357262 ECOOP 2006 - Object-Oriented Programming : 20th European Conference, Nantes, France, July 3-7, 2006, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) Book Dave Thomas August, 2006 Springer http://images.amazon.com/images/P/3540357262.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/3540357262.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/3540357262.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg C# programming C++ programming Computers / Programming / General Java programming OCL UML XML abstraction aspect-oriented programming component systems distributed objects distributed systems modeling multi-threaded programming object technology object-oriented languages object-oriented programming software patterns systems analysis systems modeling types Unknown Binding 3540357262 This item is currently not available. 3540357262_us 1149507618000 us unread

3540328556 Einführung in die Programmierung : Grundlagen, Java, UML (Springer-Lehrbuch) Book Robert Braun Werner Esswein Steffen Greiffenberg May, 2006 Springer http://images.amazon.com/images/P/3540328556.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/3540328556.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/3540328556.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $29.95 $23.68 Computers - General Information Management Information Systems Programming Languages - General Computers / Management Information Systems JAVA Modellbasierte Softwareentwicklung Programmiermethodik Programmierung Paperback 1 3540328556 This item is currently not available. 3540328556_us 1149507666000 us unread

059600978X Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0 Book Bill Burke Richard Monson-Haefel 16 May, 2006 O'Reilly Media, Inc. http://images.amazon.com/images/P/059600978X.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/059600978X.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/059600978X.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $49.99 $31.49 $26.99 $49.99 $27.65 3807 Computer Books: Languages Computers Computers - Languages / Programming Programming Languages - Java Computers / Programming Languages / Java java, j2ee, ejb, spring, hibernate, jdo, enterprise, persistence, database Paperback 1 059600978X Usually ships in 24 hours As many Java developers and IS managers already know, Sun's powerful Enterprise JavaBean (EJB) technology offers an attractive option for developing server-side components. A suitable read for both managers and Java programmers, Enterprise JavaBeans provides a surprisingly clear and engaging introduction to designing and programming with EJBs. The tour of the EJB component model presented here centers on several beans created and tested for a travel reservation system in a fictitious cruise ship company. The samples are just right in scale, large enough to test out key concepts in design and deployment, but small enough to be comprehensible, even to those who are not Java experts. The author pays close attention to the real-world issues of deployment with EJBs (as well as the differences among the vendor application servers that run them). While there are enough details in Java syntax for designing both entity and session beans for the developer, sections on design here will please those who manage projects without delving much into code. Later, the author shows various ways to design entity and session beans. (For instance, entity beans can allow their bean containers to handle the details of connecting to a database, or they can do it themselves. This book demonstrates both approaches.) When it comes to session beans (which "wire" together entity beans to do real work), the author's introduction to managing state and transactions is also a standout. Tips for performance and reusability close out the book. In all, Enterprise JavaBeans provides an engaging tour of one of the most promising component technologies. It's technically astute, but thoroughly approachable too, and can serve the needs of any manager or Java developer considering EJBs for future projects. --Richard Dragan Topics covered: Enterprise JavaBeans (EJBs) basics, distributed architectures, Component Transaction Monitors (CTMs), bean-containers, home and remote bean interfaces, resource management, configuring EJB servers, entity beans, JNDI, container-managed and bean-managed persistence, session beans, stateless and stateful beans, transactions, design and performance hints. 4.5 163 4

Does the job

Good book. Easy to read and contains comprehensive examples and excercises for JBOSS App Server. Does not contain enough examples on creating EJB architectures, which is ok as that was not the intention of the book. The one thing that threw me off every now and then is the book's coding conventions, like calling "Data Transfer Objects" "Dependent Objects", naming such objects with DO in the end instead of DTO, which is the way done in NetBeans 5.0 IDE when creating EJBs. Overall, it's a very good starters' book. Looking forward to the next book about EJB 3.0 2

the best book to start with J2EE that you can read over and over again

This book in a previous release was my start in the world of J2EE. Since then I've worked on many project with many technologies involved and, of all the books I read, at the end I always came back to this one for more insight and details. One of my best buys ever and a must for anyone interested in real three-tier applications. [...] 4

Great resource on EJB

RMH is an excellent author. His books on JMS, Web Services, J2EE topics are living examples to his penmanship. I highly recommend this book if you intend to work with EJBs. The treatment of EJBs - SLSB, SFSB,Entity Beans and MDBs plus the new additions as part of EJB 2.1 have been well explained. A great reference book for consultants who go on the road to customer sites, for quick resolution of issues. Anil Saldhana, Chicago Java Users Group. 0131422464 193239415X 0596000685 0596006519 0764543857 059600978X_us 1149507666000 us unread

0596006357 Essential Mac OS X Panther Server Administration Book Michael Bartosh Ryan Faas 24 May, 2005 O'Reilly Media, Inc. http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0596006357.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0596006357.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0596006357.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $49.95 $31.47 $22.00 $24.94 $29.18 153768 Apple And Macintosh Programming Client-Server Computing - System Management Server Computer - Apple/Macintosh Computer Bks - Apple / Macintosh Computer Books: Operating Systems Computers Hardware - Personal Computers - Macintosh Information Technology Macintosh (Computer) Operating Systems - Macintosh Operating systems (Computers) Web servers Computers / Operating Systems / Macintosh Mac OS X administration, managing and using Mac OS X Server, Mac OS X, Panther, Mac OS X Server, OS X, OSX, Mac, Macintosh, Apple Computer, Apple, BSD, FreeBSD, Mach, Unix, command-line, command line, Active Directory, Directory Services, NetInfo, system administration, sysadmin, Kerberos, password authentication, password server, Keychain, Finder, Xserve, Xserve RAID, RAID, lsbom, SSH, remote, Rendezvous, firewall, security, DHCP, DNS, NAT, VPN, IPSec, PPTP, IPv4, IPv6, SMB, Samba, AFP, FTP, CUPS, Common Unix Printing System, print services, WebDAV, PHP, Perl, Python, NFS, LDAP, users, groups, postfix, Mail, MTA, MDA, Apple Mail Server, AMS, SpamAssassin, CGPro, WebMail, MySQL, Jboss, WebObjects, QuickTime, QuickTime Streaming Server, QTSS, QuickTime Broadcaster, Apache, NetBoot, NetInstall, WorkGroup Management, backup, troubleshooting, FireWire, IP failover, rsyncx, file synchronization Paperback 1 0596006357 Usually ships in 24 hours 4.5 12 5

No other OS X server book comes close

Even with 10.4 out this is still the number one book on Mac OS X server there is. Period. Bartosh goes deep in to all areas of OS X server and provides excellent examples for you to follow. This book has saved my hide on a number of occasions and I can't wait to see what he comes up with next. If you only buy one OS X server book this is it. 5

This is a "must-have" book for all level users related to Apple systems administration.

This book is organized into seven parts and one appendix: from new system installation to remote management and different kind of clients supported. Inside the first part, there is a chapter about planning system deployment reviewing different scenarios as first task to take care of. The author exposes some basic ideas about system administration as well as strategies and tools to resolve a large number of common problems. One of the key points of this book is its better organization centered around system deployment phases than Apple documentation. Continuous explanations and small tricks to monitor and tune the system are made across the entire book sections. There is exhaustive information about installation with graphical tools, command line and network setup. The most appreciated resource can be screenshots: it allows to follow all the explanations without any problem to new Apple system administrator. Authors, as advanced users, describe in an easy but deeply enough way all management tools of all system services either graphical or command line versions. Some other Open Source or even propietary tools are described when they are good alternatives to Apple ones. All the chapters contain "best practices" sections and background knowledge to really understand their functions. This is a "must-have" book for all level users related to Apple systems administration. I'm really impatient waiting for Tiger revision. 5

Best MacOS X Server book

For those who are familiar with MacOS X and would like to learn the server-side of the equation, this book is it. Apple's documentation has been sparse and this book covers that deficiency with great aplomb. This is the best Mac OS X Server book on the market right now. Too bad O'Reilly just cancelled the Tiger version because I would have first in line for the next edition. http://www.afp548.com/article.php?story=20051221121321676 I hope they change their minds because it will certainly leave a big void in future MacOS X Server documentation. 0321242521 0321357582 032136984X 0596009151 0321335473 0596006357_us 1149507414000 us unread

1405145633 Essential Python for Corpus Linguistics Book Mark Johnson 15 July, 2006 Blackwell Publishers http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1405145633.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1405145633.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1405145633.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $74.95 $74.95 Language Language Arts & Disciplines Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy Linguistics Programming Languages - Python Hardcover 1 1405145633 Not yet released. 1405145633_us 1149507414000 us unread

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0595385974 Follow Your Java : Stories Exploring Caffeine Madness Book Peyton Burkhart 25 May, 2006 iUniverse, Inc. http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0595385974.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0595385974.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0595385974.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $14.95 $14.95 $15.74 Fiction / Short Stories (single author) Paperback 0595385974 Usually ships in 24 hours 0595385974_us 1149507666000 us unread

1590595823 Foundations of Ajax (Foundation) Book Ryan Asleson Nathaniel T. Schutta 14 October, 2005 Apress http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1590595823.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1590595823.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1590595823.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $39.99 $26.39 $16.13 $39.99 $18.95 16502 190CAFRKPEB97 Asynchronous transfer mode Computer - Internet Computer Bks - Internet Computer Books: Web Publishing Computers Internet - Web Site Design Internet - World Wide Web JavaScript (Computer program language) Web site development Paperback 1 1590595823 Usually ships in 24 hours 4.0 24 5

AJAX to the rescue...

We really liked the book as it's real easy to read. We appreciated the overview of JavaScript patterns and very much liked the overview of getting your JavaScript development environment in order with tools like: JSDoc, JSLint, JsUnit and GreaseMonkey. We look forward to next related "Foundations" book: Foundations of Atlas! 4

Review: Foundations of Ajax

Foundations of Ajax By Ryan Asleson & Nathaniel T. Schutta 296 pp., Oct 2005, Apress, Inc. Review by Dave Myers As a open source technology consultant for non-profit and community media organizations, my job is to keep on top of emerging "Web 2.0" and other social media technologies, and then clearly communicate to my clients any potential value these technologies might offer them. So when a buzz started happening around a "new" technology called Ajax a little more than a year ago, naturally I was intrigued. Ajax (short for Asynchronous Javascript And Xml) isn't really a specific technology as much as it is a novel way of combining already existing technologies that allow developers to extend the user's browser with lightweight mini-applications. This is particularly useful when the goal is to enhance web page responsive by exchanging small amounts of data with the server behind the scenes. This approach allows users to make changes to interactive web pages without the entire web page needing to reload each time a change is made. Because of the nature of my work, I found the opening chapter, "Introducing Ajax," very useful for walking me through a brief history of web applications and describing various approaches to building dynamic web pages. The remaining seven chapters provide techniques for communicating back to the server, useful Ajax examples, a toolbox and testing your JavaScript. The appendix covers cross-browser JavaScript and introduces Ajax frameworks. In all, I found this book quite useful in that it provided me with a much deeper understanding of the advantages (and drawbacks) to using Ajax. A major plus would have been a chapter on incorporating Ajax techniques into some of the more advanced open source content management systems, such as Mambo/Joomla or Drupal. Even so, I think Foundations of Ajax is a worthy introduction to this innovative approach to web app development. ~ Reviewer: David J. Myers | Open Media Center & Open Forest Consortium | Portland, Oregon USA. 4

Good introduction to Ajaz, but too Java-centric

With so much energy having been pumped into server-side programming over the last five years, the new trend is a return to developing rich clients. I've previously read several of the intermediate-to-advanced titles currently in print, so I appreciated this book's fundamental tone and approach to teaching what Ajax is and how web programmers can use it in their web applications. The book is what one just wanting to get up to speed with the next big thing would expect, and in that regard is very valuable: short chapters, lots of code and examples that can be directly copied into projects. The main concerns of programming with XHTML, CSS, XML and JavaScript are dealt with properly. The basic construct used to create an XMLHttpRequest object and work with it is replicated throughout the book, showing how easy it us to get up and running with Ajax. There are a few minor syntactical differences in the coding styles used by either author, but those are minor. The book's first four chapters are really good learning tools towards learning Ajax programming, GET'ing and POST'ing data to the server, and processing both text- and XML-based responses. The book is very modern, using several up-to-date examples of Ajax programming like those employed by NetFlix and A9, and makes frequent use of sidebars to note cross-browser incompatabilities for those unavoidable DOM quirks. Chapter 4's examples are very useful, pragmatic utilities most sites could use at some point. The one glaring point of criticism I have is that the book should have been titled "Foundations of Ajax for Java". Not that it's a bad thing, but in contrast to most other books that take a framework-agnostic approach to showing Ajax, often using .NET, PHP, CGI and Java examples, this book sticks with the approach of using servlets (and later, JSPs) to processing remote scripts, and bases the later chapters on testing and debugging on available Java tools. Again, there isn't anything inherently wrong with this, but the approach is a little one-sided for those of us not working in Java shops. Overall, this is a great read for any programmer at any level, to be followed by other APress titles on Ajax that deal with more advanced JavaScript programming. It also makes a good teaching reference for a classroom setting. 1932394613 0471777781 097669400X 1590596161 1590595335 1590595823_us 1149507375000 us unread

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1590593715 Foundations of Python Network Programming (Foundations) Book John Goerzen 17 August, 2004 Apress http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1590593715.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1590593715.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1590593715.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $44.99 $28.34 $18.00 $44.99 $18.00 103624 3BSOU1KKMMDFA 15ND45SPUBCTE Computer Books: Languages Computers Computers - Languages / Programming Internet programming Networking - Network Protocols Programming Languages - CGI, Javascript, Perl, VBScript Programming Languages - Python Python (Computer language) Python (Computer program language) Computers / Programming / General Paperback 1 1590593715 Usually ships in 24 hours 689253157152 5.0 10 4

Good overview

This book is offers very broad and detailed information about python's network features. It is very good written with many source examples. The only thing with this book (like many other python books) is, that this book was published early 2003. So things lik "SOAP" or "Twisted" are only scratched. This book really shows the fundamental features of python networking. 5

Superb

Clearly written with tons of practical examples. Mr. Goerzen has a very deep understanding of internet protocols, network programming, and the Python libraries. If you are ever going to use Python to send or receive emails, write web servers, or anything else you can think of that has to do with internet, you should not hesitate to buy this book, far and away the best Python network/internet book on the market. 5

Book fills in an a gap

The author fills an important gap in writing this book. There are a lot of books about the programming language Python - good books and not so good books. These books surely are scratching the topic of network programming. But if you want to develop certain client-server applications in Python these books do not really help very much. "Python Network Programming" explains this topic in detail starting with quite basic things up to special applications. A certain number of examples completes this well written book. 1590593561 0596007973 159059519X 0321112547 0735710902 1590593715_us 1149507423000 us unread

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1584502584 Game Programming With Python (Game Development Series) Book Sean Riley 24 October, 2003 Charles River Media http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1584502584.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1584502584.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1584502584.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $49.95 $31.47 $8.00 $49.95 $15.53 99992 24YNDRDVSPGQU 3BSOU1KKMMDFA MSAKM5CV0WHI Computer Books And Software Computer Graphics - Game Programming Computer games Computers Computers - Languages / Programming Programming Programming - Software Development Programming Languages - General Programming Languages - Python Python (Computer program langu Python (Computer program language) Art / Graphic Arts Paperback 1 1584502584 Usually ships in 24 hours 619587025841 Python may not be the first language you think of when you consider computer games, but it's surprising adept at tying together elements of game systems and not at all bad for the implementation of games in its own right. Game Programming With Python explains how to write game code in Python, and goes a long way toward showing that this isn't just a pet project of some hobbyists--that you'd really want to consider Python for game work. Sections dealing with graphics are particularly impressive. Even established Python enthusiasts will smile at what Sean Riley has accomplished in the area of terrain generation. Much of the book is as interesting for its coverage of algorithms and design patterns generically as for its detailed coverage of Python programs. Riley takes care to explain, for example, the empirical logic behind the A* (a-star) path-finding algorithm as well as its specific implementation in Python. He devotes similar care to collision-detection algorithms and the simple artificial intelligence behind tic-tac-toe. Riley makes extensive use of libraries in his games, and studying his code is a good way for readers to learn about PyUI, PyOpenGL, and network services libraries. --David Wall Topics covered: How to push Python to somewhere near the limits of its capabilities by using it to write games. The author talks about game design, useful algorithms, and strategies for using Python to interconnect game elements as well as using Python for core game functions. 4.5 7 5

Very good introduction to game coding

I know Python pretty well and I find that it is often an excellent way to quickly explore new programming concepts. Python is so powerful that you can quickly get a feel for the subject by coding a bit. At work, you may have to use a different language, but at least you will know the subject. That's how I got to understand XML and unit testing for example. A good book always helps the process though. As a newbie to games, I found this book to be an excellent introduction to game coding. It basically walks you through the material you need to create simple 2D real time games on OpenGL, including how to code simple multiplayer games (using Twisted for the networking). It does an excellent job of demystifying basic game concepts and makes me think that I could write a simple game myself, given sufficient time. The code samples, which I mostly did not run though, are well-crafted and minimalist - just enough to get the job done and no more. This is very clean and expressive code where every line serves a purpose. I am more interested by turn-by-turn web-based 2D games, so I am currently not using the book all that much. However, once I have figured out my user interface, I will surely return to it to learn how to manage game objects, persistence, game states, and the like. One caveat, and not a big one. As another reviewer stated, the book excels at showing how to develop modular code by gradually building libraries of reusable code that you can use for a number of games. The author pulls off the trick of doing that in a Python-sensible manner, without adding the overhead that Java/C++ would require, but that Python doesn't. However, the resulting code, while extremely well thought out, easy to describe, and modular, is distributed though multiple classes in numerous files . This makes it somewhat hard to just start hacking his code. I quickly got lost while trying to modify the network protocol he used for the sample tic-tac-toe application. In other words, while his code structure is very appropriate to a serious production system, I feel that it is a bit too complex for me to use as a starting point. Monolithic code has many drawbacks but can provide an easier _initial_ learning curve. 5

I just love it ...

When I buy a book with source code I first run the examples and then I start reading, so I followed all the installation steps and every single example worked nicely so. The book is clear, concise, fun tu read and I do recommend it fully. If you are serious about writing your own online game and learning Python, get this one. It 's worth the money. 3

Great introduction - terrible support

I fully agree with an earlier reviewer of this book. I am only through to chapter 6 after getting it last week and it is a great introduction. However all the examples do rely on the author's own Python user interface library which does not work. So don't expect to be able to run much of the sample code in this book. But it's a great read if you want to learn the theory behind game and simulation design with Python... 1592000738 1590593715 0596007973 1593270046 1592000770 1584502584_us 1149507423000 us unread

1592000770 Game Programming with Python, Lua, and Ruby (Game Development) Book Tom Gutschmidt 01 December, 2003 Course Technology PTR http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1592000770.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1592000770.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1592000770.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $39.99 $29.16 $3.95 $4.56 376443 Computer Books: Web Programming Computer Graphics - Game Programming Computers - Languages / Programming Games Games/Puzzles Programming Languages - General Programming Languages - Python Video & Electronic - General Computers / Entertainment & Games / General Paperback 1 1592000770 Usually ships in 24 hours 082039500775 1.5 3 1

An Absolute Joke

First let me preface this by saying that i'm only on page 31 and ALREADY am I compelled to write a review about how bad this book is. however, if I get further into the book to find that by some miracle it actually improves, I will revise this review as appropriate. However, the first 31 pages alone are so bad i had to say something before other people blow their cash on this. Where to begin? I suppose my biggest problems with the book are: 1) It's like no one edited the book AT ALL: By only page 31, already i've had to re-read more than a few sentences because of the blatant grammar errors that I simply don't expect when reading a professionally published book, such as "A strings is basically..." (p31) "In the1960's software development..." (p13). "They can be composed numbers, letters..." (p30) There are numerous others but I can't remember them off hand. Also, in Chapter 1 as the three languages are introduced, the author produces a diagram for each language's "family tree". Two out of three of these are completely wrong. Figure 1.5 is labeled as "The Python language family tree", yet the diagram itself doesn't contain Python anywhere-- rather, the root of the tree is Lua. Figure 1.6 is labeled "The Lua language family tree", but again, Lua is nowhere to be found; rather, the root of the tree is Ruby. How can so many errors exist already, less than one TENTH of the way through the book? 2) Numerous technical errors and misconceptions: With all due respect, I seriously question the author's grasp of even basic subjects so far. For instance, on page 25, we're told that the # symbol is used for one-line comments in numerous languages, including *C*. As anyone with even a semester of junior college CS classes knows, the # symbol denotes a proprocessor directive in C, not a single-line comment. This would be nitpicking anywhere else, but in the context of a professionally published book, especially one that's already on such shakey ground, this is unnerving. On page 18, one of Lua's features is described as the ability to be compiled into byte-code, "simulating a virtual machine". "Simulating" a "virtual" machine? In other words, Simulating a simulated machine. You don't simulate VM's-- the whole concept of a VM is a simulation in the first place. It'd be like "simulating" virtual reality. Again, it wouldn't normally be a big deal, but I can't help but wonder how much the author really "gets" this stuff. This becomes less of a joke when you consider genuine newbies reading this stuff, setting them up for real long-term confusion. There are other examples but those are two I remember off the top of my head. 3) A book clearly aimed at no one: This book, as I understood it at least, is aimed at game programmers who want to learn how to use scripting languages to either script their games, or implement their games while using native languages like C++ to handle performance-critical elements such as graphics. Unfortunately, it also seems to be aimed (in certain parts) at newbies and flat-out non-programmers. On the one hand, the author has gone out of his way to explain what CPU is (!), what commenting is (!), and how parentheses are used to denote order of operations in math expressions (!). Not more than a few pages later, however, we get this sentence (typo taken from actual text): "[Lists] can be composed numbers, letters, or even constructs such as arrays, hashes or even other lists." (p30) Exactly what type of reader needs to be told what CPU stands for, what a comment is, and what parentheses mean, but has no problem following along when you mention "constructs" such as arrays and hashes? My point is that the author is continually wasting time with useless explanations of things that would only serve a *brand new* programmer who knows virtually *nothing* about computers or programming in general. Needless to say, that person simply won't learn anything from a book like this, which would clearly only be useful to an intermediate programmer or better (so far at least). So those of us actually trying to learn something have to sit through these absurd sidebars and tangents instead of focusing on what we came for. Of course, if you actually were a total newbie, you wouldn't be able to understand 90% of the content *aside* from these useless sidebars and tangents. 4) Strange organization: I'm only about 7 pages into Chapter 2, and I'm already about to give up on this book. This chapter is an absolute train wreck and is the total opposite of the approach that would have worked. Believe it or not, the author is attempting to introduce all three languages, Lua, Python and Ruby, *simulatneously*. In some ways this sounds like a decent idea, since it seems like it would allow the reader to directly compare the languages feature-for-feature. Unfortunately, keep in mind that this book is designed to *teach* these languages, not just compare them. Imagine having to learn three separate topics at one time simply because later on, you'll have to chose one of them to go with. I've never read anything so disjointed in my life. Fortunately, I already know a thing or two about two of these languages, so I can keep my head above water, but it's obvious that if I didn't understand any of them I would be totally lost. This book is begging to be rewritten in a straightforward divide-and-conquer approach. Teach me things in separate, discrete, understandable chunks, and THEN tie them all together and make the necessary comparisons. Throwing them all into a single chapter TOGETHER makes things endlessly confusing for no reason whatsoever. 5) A weird, sketchy writing style overall: Lastly, and I admit I don't know quite how to categorize this, the author writes in a style that is just bizarre. Overall, it often sounds like I'm reading a conversation between one beginner-level programmer trying to explain programming concepts to another beginner. Ugh: - "Variables are holders for data any computer or program might need to use or manipulate." I know what he's trying to say, but this is a REMARKABLY obtuse way of saying it. "Any computer or program"? "Use or manipulate"? Yeesh. - "Variables are usually given names so that a program can assign values to them and refer to them later symbolically." "Usually" given names? That's like saying numbers "usually" have values. And the program doesn't "assign values" to those names-- the programmer does. Variables exist *solely* for benefit of a human programmer, not an executing program. Variables and their names (generally) do not persist beyond the compilation stage, and even when they do (as in the case of late binding or debugging), they still exist for the use of the human programmer only, not the "program". Explaining this concept in such a hazy and clearly incorrect manner is poison for a beginner's understanding. - "Another commonality between Python, Lua and Ruby is using parentheses() to state precedence;" This may be true, but why phrase it this way? It implies that the parentheses is a specific feature to these three languages. In reality, the only mainstream alternative to parentheses is RPN, which is used virtually nowhere in modern programming languages. Parentheses are a de facto standard among all high-level languages if ever there was one, not a "commonality" between these three languages. He might as well say the same thing about variables, conditional logic, iteration, and what have you. To sum up, this is a book that doesn't have a clearly defined target audience (by a long shot), is written in a savagely unprofessional and often baffling style, and is riddled with subtle and not-so-subtle mistakes and innappropriate tangents. The only reason I've written a review so early into the book (page 31!) is that I'm already thinking about returning it, and want to make sure others have some idea of what they're getting into before they buy it. At best, if you're still curious, give this thing a good 30 minutes at least in your local bookstore, and keep an eye out for the things I mentioned. The Premier Press GameDev series actually does have a lot of good, underrated titles, and gets a bad rap more often than it deserves, but books like this definitely aren't doing it any favors. 2

mediocre overview

I flipped through this book before buying it, so I should have known what I was getting, but still I was disappointed. The discussion of the languages is pretty elementary. I was hoping that the discussion of game libraries for the various libraries would be of value, but the selection presented is much smaller than you can easily find online - and being a book, the information presented is out of date, too.Additionally, there are some pretty atrocious editing errors, including syntax errors in the code that completely obscure the point being made, as well as figures incorrectly matched with their respective captions.It's not ALL bad, though. There are a few examples here and there that changed the direction of how I considered using Python in games. 1

Very thin

I hate giving this book a bad review because I ordered it without seeing the Table of Contents. If I had seen it, I would've known it wasn't what I was looking for. In any case, I don't think the book has anything useful in it for intermediate or experienced programmers. Normally I would say that this book is for beginners only, but I don't think it covers any of the scripting languages well enough for beginners.The introductory chapter is mostly fluff, as it is in most computer books. Each language has 3 chapters dedicated to it: the first is a crash course on the language, the second introduces some useful extensions for the language (without explaining them well enough for you to be able to use them), and the third lists some existing projects that use the language. The concluding chapter has a little information on extending the scripting languages, and a comparative list of pros and cons.Because the book is too short to reasonably cover three languages and their various extensions, it should've avoided explaining them and directed the user to the online documentation for them. With the possible exception of the Ruby SDL extension, which is only documented in Japanese, the online documentation is much better. The online documentation probably could've been distributed with the binaries that came with the CD.When I bought this book, I was hoping to find some examples of game and game engine architecture/design that use scripting languages. Some are written with C/C++ extending the scripting language, and others are written the other way around. I wanted to see examples of both, with explanations of how the code was organized and why it was organized that way. Memory and performance pitfalls should be pointed out, along with tips on debugging and profiling. 1584502584 1592000908 1931841578 8590379817 1592000282 1592000770_us 1149507423000 us unread

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0793802601 Guide to Owning a Ball Python (Guide to Owning A...) Book John Coburn March, 1995 TFH Publications http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0793802601.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0793802601.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0793802601.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $9.95 $9.95 $1.00 $5.00 $2.50 311292 Animals Animals / Pets Nature/Ecology Reptiles & Amphibians Reptiles, Amphibians & Terrariums Paperback 1 0793802601 Usually ships in 24 hours 018214102601 4.0 7 3

Can hopefully find something better

I have owned snakes but just bought my first ball python. I picked up this book at the pet store and read it cover to cover--a couple of times over. While it offers some good information to start, it leaves out so much. It leaves out common sense info that the new ball python owner will search high and low for. Such as: what do those rotten little mites REALLY look like, what are some real ways to REALLY get rid of them, what humidity level to really strive for--in actual numbers, when the first shed will occur, the fact that they are supposed to have "wrinkled corneas" (he didn't fail to shed his eyeball), how to gauge when your baby ball is ready to move from fuzzies to hoppers to adults, etc. After doing a lot of day-to-day research to supplement this average book, we found a FABULOUS vet who has personally owned and cared for hundreds upon hundreds of ball pythons. (If you live in/near Murrieta, CA, email me for her contact info.) I am really looking for a new book that will give me more confidence and comfort that I am caring for my sweet snake much more properly. And thank goodness for my vet!! 2

Buy a better book called `the ball python manual`

I read both books. Whenever I encounter problems , I refer to the ball python manual. Many pictures posted are Boa constrictors. All the informations in this book can be found in web sites. 3

Okay book.

This is a good book to own but should not be the first in your collection. It has excellent photos and can be very good for a reference but I find some of the information in it is inaccurate compared to other sources of information, which is why I don't think it should be your first Ball Python book. 0764111248 0812093658 1882770358 1580080359 0793810221 0793802601_us 1149507535000 us unread

0596008678 Head First Object-Oriented Analysis and Design : A Brain Friendly Guide to OOA&D Book Dave Wood Bert Bates Kathy Sierra 01 September, 2006 O'Reilly Media, Inc. http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0596008678.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0596008678.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0596008678.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $49.99 $32.99 72124 Computer Bks - Languages / Programming Computer Books: Languages Computers Computers - Languages / Programming Programming - Object Oriented Programming Programming - Software Development Programming - Systems Analysis & Design Computers / Programming / Object Oriented object oriented, object oriented analysis, object oriented design, analysis, design, object oriented programming, Java, interface, encapsulation, inheritance, design patterns, UML Paperback 1 0596008678 Not yet released. 0596102259 059610197X 0596007124 0596009208 0596102143 0596008678_us 1149507609000 us unread

0596102259 Head Rush Ajax Book Brett McLaughlin 28 March, 2006 O'Reilly Media, Inc. http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0596102259.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0596102259.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0596102259.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $39.99 $25.19 $16.99 $39.99 $18.95 1864 Asynchronous transfer mode Computer - Internet Computer Books: Languages Computers Computers - Languages / Programming Internet - Application Development Internet - Web Site Design Internet - World Wide Web JavaScript (Computer program language) Programming Languages - CGI, Javascript, Perl, VBScript World Wide Web Ajax, DHTML, Google maps, Javascript, asynchronous, XML, span, div, web design, pixel creative, HTTP, XHTML, HTML, CSS Computers / Programming Languages / CGI, JavaScript, Perl, VBScript Paperback 1 0596102259 Usually ships in 24 hours 4.0 15 4

Learn the Fundamentals

Other reviews have supplied the synopsis, and table of contents for this book, so I'm just going to put my 2 cents in regarding the Head Rush/Head First format. Some people might think it's too cute, but to get an entry level understanding of a technical topic, there is none better than this series. This is the second book in the series I have owned. The other is 'Head First Java'. If you are serious about learning something new, understanding fundamentals is the key, and teaching the fundamentals is what this series is about, and it excels at. In the future, I will pass up the 'Dummies' and 'Idiots' books for quick fixes that I might forget, and look for a Head First/Head Rush book to gain a better understanding of concepts. 1

waste of money

This book doesn't teach you anything. Instead of telling you how to do it, the author is wasting your time explaining what you can do with AJAX. If you want to impress your nondeveloper friends, this book might be an asset. 5

Unique & Effective Way To Learn AJAX

'Head Rush AJAX' is a unique but effective way of learning AJAX. This "Head Rush" book is unlike anything I have ever seen before. Instead of a 'normal' layout with a bland approach, this book feels very BUSY from start to finish. While this might sound like a negative connotation for a lot of other things that could be reviewed, I found that this AJAX book was an effective, and heavily entertaining learning tool. AJAX is a pretty straightforward topic and while I do agree with other reviewers that the author probably droned on a bit too long as it relates to some of the topics/examples (certainly this 400+ page book could have been trimmed down to 250-300 pages), it's enjoyable ride to take. The author writes well, and it feels like a total "Generation X+" book that caters to a new breed of programmer which is probably right on because AJAX is a new breed of programming. ***** HIGHLY RECOMMENDED 059610197X 0596007124 0976694085 1932394613 0596009208 0596102259_us 1149507375000 us unread

0596003064 High Performance MySQL Book Jeremy D. Zawodny Derek J. Balling 08 April, 2004 O'Reilly Media, Inc. http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0596003064.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0596003064.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0596003064.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $39.95 $25.17 $22.00 $39.95 $15.00 14528 38JJY0Q0R7QWR 20BJTYAK6I51R S5TTMJW8ZXUE Computer Books: Languages Computers Computers - Languages / Programming MySQL (Electronic resource) Programming Languages - General Programming Languages - SQL SQL (Computer language) SQL (Computer program language) Computers / Database Management / General Paperback 1 0596003064 Usually ships in 24 hours 4.5 18 5

Practical Book for MySQL 4.x users

This book is very practical and gives a clean insight for Power Users of MySQL. It also illustrates some concepts in brief and gets user going fast. Some of the topics like backups, load balancing are covered very well. In short following is what I can say in points. -Very good quick reference and tips for mysql 4.x users -Practical Tips and performance issues which you may not find in mysql official reference -Writing style is definitely "get going" type and not a "comprehensive guide" style. I liked this book and I use it as a reference. I would recommend this book to any MySQL 4.x users. Specially for those having the database in production environment, this book is really handy. 5

Good book overall, but may grow obsolete to MySQL5.

I mainly bought this book so that I could get some insight into 'advanced' Storage and Replication techniques w/ MySQL. Jeremy provided some pretty detailed and easy to understand examples, with decently comprehensive descriptions which did help answer some of the questions I had. I'd suggest this book to anyone who wants to understand the principles of Storage and Replication techniques in MySQL4. This book is definately a kick in the right direction, but does not take you too far, so I'd say this is for intermediate users. MySQL5 has many new storage and replication features not mentioned in this book, some of which resolve a lot of the 'problematic' storage and replication issues that this book discusses, thus making SOME of the content irrelevent (or obsolete) to MySQL5. However, the overall principles remain the same, and can be applied to either version. If you're using MySQL4, then this book is for you! If you're using MySQL5, you may want to wait for a revised edition of this book. I sure hope Jeremy is working on a revised version for MySQL5! *hint*hint* =) 5

A computer book actually worth reading

I read approximately 2 computer-related books a month, and have done so for the last 10 years. This book is the best computer book I have read in the last 5 years, hands down. Not content on the basic "how to install, learn SQL, etc" route, Zawodny and company have chosen to give you real nuggets of wisdom to tune your MySQL instance with. This book is for the advanced MySQL developer/DBA/Admin, and medium to high knowledge of MySQL is a must to use this book effectively. I would recommend this book to anyone with performance problems coming from MySQL. As always, check your code first :) 0596001452 0672325616 0672326736 1590595351 0672326345 0596003064_us 1149507423000 us unread

0819307866 Hilaire Belloc's the Yak, the Python and the Frog Book June, 1975 E P Dutton http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0819307866.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0819307866.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0819307866.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $2.35 $5.99 3407189 Animals Children's poetry, English Juvenile poetry Nonsense verses Nonsense verses, English Hardcover 0819307866 This item is currently not available. 0819307866_us 1149507595000 us unread

0819307858 Hilaire Belloc's the Yak, the Python and the Frog: A Picture Book Production Book Hilaire Belloc Steven Kellogg June, 1975 E P Dutton http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0819307858.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0819307858.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0819307858.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $5.95 $5.00 2030687 Animals Children's poetry, English Juvenile poetry Nonsense verses Nonsense verses, English Hardcover 0819307858 This item is currently not available. 0819307858_us 1149507595000 us unread

0908081367 How To Puzzle A Python Book Max Walker Ray Martin 1990 Magenta Press Pty, Ltd http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0908081367.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0908081367.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0908081367.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $4.99 Hardcover 0908081367 This item is currently not available. 0908081367_us 1149507586000 us unread

0971677506 How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: Learning with Python Book Allen Downey Jeffrey Elkner Chris Meyers 04 January, 2002 Green Tea Pr http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0971677506.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0971677506.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0971677506.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $24.95 $24.95 $19.00 $9.95 $24.92 453863 178DD0NBCBET0 15ND45SPUBCTE Reference Paperback 0971677506 Usually ships in 2 to 4 weeks 4.0 8 5

Excellent

I just got the online copy of this (available free under the GNU documentation license). I had some classes in the past, programming classes, all pertained to java and i did not learn much of anything about it. It was just "type this and blarg (As someone in a previous review said" This book is amazing, it has an elegant and significant way of blending words to the point where its fun to learn programming. Stick with the book and you'll not only learn the basics of Python, but you'll learn all the logic and other implementations of computer programming as you go along! Very good read and i plan on purchasing a hardbound copy just as a keepsake becuase i enjoy this book so much. 4

A great text for learning Python

I don't actually own a hard copy of this book, but I read it in its entirety online, and I must say, it was all I needed to learn Python. I began programming 8 years ago in AppleSoft BASIC, and I've now been using C++ for 5 years. Prior to seeing this book, I'd looked into Python a few times, but never really got engaged enough to learn it. A few days ago, when I found a copy of the book on iBiblio, I read through it in two days flat, and now I have a really good feel for the language. The authors cover all the vital topics in a concise, consistent, and reader-friendly manner. I must say that I'm not a programming neophyte, so I don't have an objective feel for whether or not this book can teach you from scratch how to think like a computer scientist, but it certainly helped me once and for all to learn Python, and I'd recommend it to anyone without hesitation. 5

Excellent book for beginners!

"How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: Learning with Python" is one of the best computer programming books out there that beginners can start with! I have been enjoying this book for the past two months and I HIGHLY recommend it for the following reasons:1) This book is designed with beginners (like you) in mind. In other words, you will not have to hire a tutor to be able to understand this book! It is very easy and clear to understand -- unlike many of the previous programming books that I have come across in the past.2) It teaches you the necessary programming fundamentals that other programming languages require you to know. Once you have learned how to work with python, you will probably find it pretty easy (as I did) to acquire additional programming languages, such as Microsoft Visual Basic, C++ and Java.3) This book provides the beginner with many easy-to-understand examples, in which the reader can try out. This makes the learning experience more interactive and enjoyable.4) Python is a very easy language for beginners to work with. It is very easy to comprehend and tends to be on the "forgiving" side, especially if one makes a mistake while trying to learn to program.5) Python is a free programming language that works with my different type of computer systems. It works beautifully with Microsoft Windows, Macintosh, Unix, Linux, Solaris, and other operating systems. With the language being free, you do not have to pay additional money to obtain the software.I absolutely love this book and I hope that you will find it to be a fun and rewarding experience too. Give it a try -- it will open up a new world of programming to you! 1590593561 0596002815 1887902996 1592000738 0596007973 0971677506_us 1149507457000 us unread

0975212842 How Tomcat Works : A Guide to Developing Your Own Java Servlet Container Book Budi Kurniawan Paul Deck 30 December, 2006 BrainySoftware http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0975212842.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0975212842.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0975212842.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $49.95 $32.97 1601891 Computer Books: Languages Computers Computers - Languages / Programming Programming Languages - Java Computers / Programming Languages / Java Paperback 1 0975212842 Not yet released. 4.0 14 5

A solid pedagogical way to the implementation of Tomcat 4

This is one of the rare books that pave you a way through the implementation of a major software product. The last one I read was Tannenbaums classic "Operating Systems". The Tomcat book is a lot easier to access: Tomcat is written in Java not C and the author takes a lot of trouble of making code iterations especially for pedagogical reasons. I do very much appreciate this. Both authors have a very clear style. They do not enervate and distract you with any vanity. You have ample time during the read for your own thoughts of how you can do better. Usually I found that my ideas were worse and I learned something more. Sure there are rather small questions of style. The code smells a little like C. There are very many if statements. Some routines are quite long... Still it is a pleasure to read the code. In this book you learn a lot about the implementation of a major software project and a lot about production quality code. You do not learn how to install, administer and use Tomcat. Most is about Tomcat 4. Some ideas are given of the changes due to Tomcat 5. This is a Tomcat 5 aware book but not a book about that version. I am sure this book helps you to actually do extensions of the engine itself, though this certainly is not its main impetus. Be prepared for some very solid reading. Do not worry about the comments with regards to bad editing. The editing is more than adequate. Much welcome improvements: (1) Provide an overview of the major interfaces and classes. And provide the central sequence diagram. Put both at a prominent place in the book (maybe inside the book flaps). This should be straightforward and easy for the authors. (2) Update the book to the newest version of Tomcat. I know this is really asking too much. It takes at least a full time week to read the book, to rewrite takes considerably longer. But it is clear that Tomcat 5 would require even more: an entirely new adapted pedagogically design of the book. 4

powerful interfaces in Tomcat

Tomcat is the most common container for Java servlets. Yet using all its power can be formidably intricate. To help you, the authors spend much space going over the interfaces it offers. Using these is an easy way for your servlets to avail themselves of Tomcat's functions. Like writing your own logger, specific to your output needs. All it has to do is implement the Catalina Logger interface, and the container can run it. Or, you can use sundry default loggers that come with Tomcat. The text shows, amongst other things, how Java's interface capability is a profoundly useful enabler of modular code. It lets you integrate easily with Tomcat, using a minimum of coding. 2

I'm afraid I wasn't that impressed

Having recently finished TCP/IP illustrated, volume 2, which is a line-by-line treatment of the BSD networking code, I was hoping that "How Tomcat Works" would be as thoughtful and as comprehensive a treatment of Tomcat's code. It wasn't, and it fell far short of my expectations. For the most part, the value of the book comes from the author's organization of the source code - first look at the connectors, then look at containers, then look at wrappers, engines, hosts, etc. This organization is valuable if you're just sitting down to dissect the source, since it gives you a place to start. Otherwise, though, the book didn't provide much information that the source code itself (freely available) doesn't. The authors just present the source code and say, "there you go. That's it". They don't delve into the why or the how - they don't show how the sources tie together or discuss areas where Tomcat might be improved (or why it can't be improved in an otherwise obvious way). All in all, if you're the sort of person who'd be interested in reading this book, you probably already know everything it has to teach you. 0764559028 0596003188 193239415X 1932394613 0764558315 0975212842_us 1149507608000 us unread

0321356993 IBM Rational(R) ClearCase(R), Ant, and CruiseControl : The Java(TM) Developer's Guide to Accelerating and Automating the Build Process Book Kevin A. Lee 24 May, 2006 IBM Press http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0321356993.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0321356993.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0321356993.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $44.99 $44.99 $43.93 $42.79 219026 Computer Bks - Languages / Programming Computer Books: Languages Computer software Computers Computers - Languages / Programming Development Java (Computer program language) Programming - Software Development Programming Languages - Java Computers / Programming / Software Development Paperback 1 0321356993 Usually ships in 24 hours 0321200195 0321262204 0321356993_us 1149507666000 us unread

B0006Y30IE In the coils of a red python Book James C Troyanowski 01 January, 1982 Printed by Adobe Press http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0006Y30IE.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0006Y30IE.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0006Y30IE.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg Foreign relations History Occupation, 1939-1945 Poland Soviet Union World War, 1939-1945 Unknown Binding B0006Y30IE This item is currently not available. B0006Y30IE_us 1149507595000 us unread

0321443853 Integrating and Extending BIRT Book Jason Weathersby Don French Tom Bondur Jane Tatchell Iana Chatalbasheva 20 October, 2006 Addison-Wesley Professional http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0321443853.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0321443853.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0321443853.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $49.99 $49.99 999872 Computer Bks - Languages / Programming Computer Books: Languages Computer Graphics - General Computers Computers - Languages / Programming New Business Enterprises Programming Languages - Java Computers / Programming Languages / Java Paperback 1 0321443853 Not yet released. 0321443853_us 1149507609000 us unread

1558514848 Internet Programming with Python Book Aaron Watters Guido Van Rossum James C. Ahlstrom Guido Van Rossum Guido v Rossum James C Ahlstrom 30 September, 1996 M & T Books http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1558514848.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1558514848.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1558514848.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $34.95 $10.99 $27.00 $49.99 906900 Computer Bks - Internet Computer Books And Software Computer Networks Computer Programming Languages Computers Internet Internet - General Programming Languages - General Python (Computer program langu Python (Computer program language) Java & variants Object-oriented programming (OOP) Programming languages Paperback 1 1558514848 This item is currently not available. 4.0 6 5

A masterpiece

Instead of giving this book an opportunity to become a best-seller, the publisher let it become out of print. An unfortunate effect is that my students could not buy the book, and have to share the library copies. This book is beautifully written, enormously useful and fun to read because of authors' good sense of humor. Chapter 7: "Generating HTML" gives one of the best introductions to object orientation and dynamic features of Python. I urge the authors and the publisher to work quickly to make the book available. 4

great book, the CD is out-of-date

Awesome book, I liked Chapter 3 which instantly gets you into useful programming stuff. The book also takes you from beginner-level to advanced stuff like extending and embedding python, sort of the python equivalent of the Perl camel book (programming perl) and panther book (advanced perl programming) rolled into one. I think there's enough stuff on net programming to justify the title. The CD-ROM in my copy of the book has python 1.3, the current version is 1.5 something. The book too might be dated, but I skimmed the latest ORA python book, Learning Python, and I think this is more my speed. 4

Gentle Intro to Python.

The book's title probably has been chosen to attract attention. That said, it is an excellent book. The standard book, Programming Python by Mark Lutz, may bog neophytes down.The first half of the book is an introduction to the language and the second half applications loosely connected to the Internet.The language is worth knowing, but I'd have liked a book with exercises. 1590593715 0321112547 1558514848_us 1149507535000 us unread

0131176552 Introduction to Computing and Programming in Python, A Multimedia Approach Book Mark Guzdial 27 December, 2004 Prentice Hall http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0131176552.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0131176552.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0131176552.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $84.00 $84.00 $45.00 $67.50 371036 Computer Bks - General Information Computer Books: General Computer Literacy Computers Computers - Languages / Programming Interactive & Multimedia Programming - General Programming Languages - Python Computers / General Paperback 1 0131176552 Usually ships in 24 hours 4.5 3 4

strong image analysis

Guzdial teaches Python from the angle that you want to use it to easily manipulate various types of multimedia files. The files might contain images, sounds, video or even just plain text. This gives some of you extra motivation to learn the material. Along the way, you can learn how images are encoded in JPG, and how colours are represented, either in RGB or HSB. There is a fair amount of image analysis and modifications that can be easily done in Python. This does not approach the sophistication of what Photoshop provides. But being able to do a lot yourself, instead of invoking canned Photoshop routines, might appeal to you. Audio manipulation is also covered, though perhaps not as extensively. There are more specialised audio tools available elsewhere, especially for music synthesis. The discussion of movies is very weak. Due to the complexity of what is required. Here I suggest you turn to what Apple and others offer. 5

best python as a first language book so far

This book achieves both of the things you would want a Python as a first language book to do - it engages the beginner with things they might actually want to do, but doesn't fail to introduce the deeper concepts that are needed to come to appreciate the beauty and elegance of Python. Focusing on computing applications in the arts, this book uses a clever approach to enable the beginner to do really interesting stuff, very quickly. There are things in there that would be of interest to any photographer, not just a software beginner. Yes, Photoshop is faster and easier, but it hasn't got this level of control! If you ever wanted to write your own Photoshop plugins, this book might be of interest just as an alternative way to get to design your own effects. The end of the book gets carried away, trying to pack too much in. It tries to explain OOP and Swing, HTML, Javascript and SQL. I think this is too much to get into one book, and if you are working through the text yourself without any mentors you should probably not give yourself too much grief if you don't get all the way through it. Admittedly, it is also pretty darned expensive. Otherwise great stuff! This book fills a gaping hole in the Python literature. If you are an intelligent beginner, it is a great place to get started in getting real control over your computer! 5

Great Book

Guzdial presents concepts in simple form that is easy for beginners to understand. Actually entertaining to read. Worth every penny! 1887902996 1590593561 1590593715 3540435085 0596002815 0131176552_us 1149507423000 us unread

0132237385 Introduction to Java Programming : Fundamentals First (6th Edition) Book Y Daniel Liang 29 June, 2006 Prentice Hall http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0132237385.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0132237385.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0132237385.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $98.00 $98.00 Computer Bks - Languages / Programming Computer Books: Languages Computers Computers - Languages / Programming Programming Languages - Java Computers / Programming Languages / Java Paperback 1 0132237385 Not yet released. 0132237385_us 1149507666000 us unread

0132221586 Introduction to Java Programming-Comprehensive (6th Edition) Book Y Daniel Liang 29 June, 2006 Prentice Hall http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0132221586.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0132221586.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0132221586.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $98.00 $98.00 336020 Computer Bks - Languages / Programming Computer Books: Languages Computers Computers - Languages / Programming Programming Languages - Java Computers / Programming Languages / Java Paperback 1 0132221586 Not yet released. 5.0 6 5

Great intro through intermediate text

I've tried learning C++ many times and kept getting lost between the introductory and intermediate level texts. It was suggested that I consider trying Java, so I reluctantly found this text by Liang and am making my way through. Not only am I not getting bogged down in the C-compiler, but Liang's explinations and examples are so much clearer than anything I ran into in the C++ texts I had used. My only regret is that between ordering this text and starting to use it Liang's website mentioned the upcoming 6th edition. For Mac users - I chose to use Eclipse. I used Liang's appendix to get set up. However, when I went to debug I had some serious problems. Turns out that you MUST download the Java source documentation from the Apple Developer Connection (ADC) site for the debugging to work properly. 5

Excellent Way to Learn

The author does a great job of presenting a complicated subject in an easy to grasp step by step method. Dr. Liang obviously understand how to both teach and educate at the same time. I found this book through a formal class, but we only covered a subset of the chapters. I took the book and finished on my own. The book is that well structured and written. As a pleasant side note, it also contains zero errors that I could find, contrary to may software books. I've read a number of books teaching programming languages and this ranks as one of the best I've found! 5

Introduction? Yes. Yet, so much more.

I actually didnt learn Java using this book. I used another book that the university prescribed. Although that was just introductory level, as i moved on to more advanced java programming, the need to understand JSP, the java.net api etc... I looked to books that would explain it well. Most java books out there at the advanced level assume that you have much programming experience and know a few other langauges. Thus they skip out a lot of important details that would otherwise be helpful to beginners and possibly even a good revision for experts. This book had it all. It was perfect. After going through many books, I can safely say that any java problem i come across I look to this book first. In fact I liked it so much for these advanced chapters that I decided to read through the whole thing, even the introductory chapters, just to see if i missed out anything while learning java. All I can say is I wish i had this book while beginning to learn java. A true beginner to expert book. Not just for Java, but programming in general. A must read! 0131489534 0596009208 0131492020 0761535225 0072226846 0132221586_us 1149507666000 us unread

0536805482 Introduction to Media Computation: A Multimedia Cookbook in Python Book Mark J. Guzdial January, 2004 Pearson PTR Interactive http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0536805482.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0536805482.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0536805482.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $20.89 $58.99 1138238 Computers - General Information Interactive & Multimedia Paperback 1 0536805482 This item is currently not available. 0536805482_us 1149507423000 us unread

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0132222205 Java : How to Program (7th Edition) Book Harvey & Paul) Deitel & Associates 15 November, 2006 Prentice Hall http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0132222205.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0132222205.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0132222205.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $98.00 $98.00 Computer Books: Languages Computers Computers - Languages / Programming Programming Languages - Java Computers / Programming Languages / Java Paperback 1 0132222205 Not yet released. 0132222205_us 1149507609000 us unread

059610149X Java and XML Book Brett McLaughlin Justin Edelson 01 December, 2006 O'Reilly Media, Inc. http://images.amazon.com/images/P/059610149X.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/059610149X.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/059610149X.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $49.99 $31.49 822955 Computer Books: Languages Computers Computers - Languages / Programming Programming Languages - Java Programming Languages - XML Computers / Programming Languages / Java java, xml, dom, sax, jdom, schema, relaxng, jaxp, jaxb, dom4j, web services, rss, soap Paperback 1 059610149X Not yet released. Two hot topics come together in this developer's guide from Brett McLaughlin, Java and XML. Both Java and XML are cross-platform technologies; by using Java for code and XML for transporting data, you can build truly portable applications. This title is aimed at intermediate to advanced programmers; while XML topics are explained more or less from scratch, readers will need prior knowledge of Java. The book begins with an overview of XML and its uses, and goes on to explain how to parse XML by using the Simple API for XML (SAX 2). Next, there is coverage of how XML is validated by using Document Type Definitions (DTDs) and XML Schema, and transformed by using eXtensible Stylesheet Language (XSL). Brief coverage of Sun's Java API for XML is followed by a detailed look at the Java Document Object Model (JDOM), a new API devised by the author in association with O'Reilly, the publisher. The last part of the book is more advanced, and covers applications of XML and Java. There are chapters on Web-publishing frameworks, XML Remote Procedure Calls (RPCs), using XML to read and write configuration data, and generating XML with Java. There is also a short business-to-business example. Appendices provide an API reference to the various specifications discussed in the book. The strengths of Java and XML include the author's deep knowledge of his subject, and a writing style that is both clear and enthusiastic. If you happen to know a lot about Java and not much about XML, this is the ideal title. Readers who already have a good grasp of XML basics might be frustrated by the amount of introductory material. --Tim Anderson 3.5 60 1

Disappointing

This book did not come up to the expectations that were set by some of the other reviewers and by O'Reilly themselves. I bought Java & XML a couple of years ago. I diligently read the first couple of chapters, but then found it unhelpful and put it aside. To find out what SAX and DOM are you have to wade through lots of inconsequential information, only to discover that SAX allows you to parse an XML document on the fly, but doesn't retain it in memory; whereas DOM keeps the document in memory and allows you to manipulate it. Big deal. I could have worked this out by doing some Google searches. I am writing this review because I have just picked up my (dusty) copy from the bookshelf in the hope of finding something interesting. I was surprised to see that the first example on SAX actually includes a JTree, even though McLaughlin says to ignore it, it is typical of the book to include something irrelevant and simply confusing. Why doesn't he just use a simple console example? What he doesn't say is that the JTree code is really there to make the example longer, so that there are more pages in the book that justify a higher price. You're not going to spend 45 dollars on a weedly little manual, are you? You want something chunky for your money. When reading this sort of book, I get the feeling that O' Reilly, and similar technical publishers, put a lot of effort into inflating their publications into bigger manuals with lots of pages. McLaughlin is obviously an expert, but he is constrained by the O'Reilly house style, which is deliberately conversational and longwinded so that while you feel that it is easy reading, they are really just making it more difficult to learn simple concepts. As I said before they also pepper the pages with unnecessary sections of code. In my opinion, another two examples are XSLT and XSLT "cooktop": both these O'Reilly manuals could have been condensed into one book by just cutting the waffle. Don't get me wrong, I don't enjoy dry, academic journals but at the same time I just wish that these manuals would get to the point quicker . 2

Pretty much a waste of time

Now, after having had this book for about 1 year, and having looked at other sources which explain XML and using XML with Java, do I realize how much of my time this book has wasted.The author might be a genius, but if you wish to learn XML and it's usage with Java, please take my advise and stay away from this book.The book is too verbose and the author in the process, to give him the benefit of doubt, forgot to explain the concepts, and then wandered off to his favorite specialized topics such as JDOM and other usages of XML which may be of interest to just a few readers. 4

Best book on Java and XML

One of the first and best books that really showed how to use XML within a Java development context. 0596007213 0596001975 0201770040 0596001436 0596001576 059610149X_us 1149507609000 us unread

0321349601 Java Concurrency in Practice Book Brian Goetz Tim Peierls Joshua Bloch Joseph Bowbeer David Holmes Doug Lea 09 May, 2006 Addison-Wesley Professional http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0321349601.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0321349601.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0321349601.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $44.99 $28.34 $28.29 $44.99 $28.29 2087 Computer Books: Languages Computers Computers - Languages / Programming Java (Computer program language) Parallel programming (Computer science) Programming Languages - Java Threads (Computer programs) Computers / Programming Languages / Java Paperback 1 0321349601 Usually ships in 24 hours 5.0 4 5

Excellent coverage of Java multi-threading

The book is by far the best one on Java concurrency. There is really nothing out there that has such comprehensive coverage of this topic. Doug Lee's book is a bit theoretical and somewhat dry, but would be a nice complement to this book if you want to think some more about concurrency. This book has a very strong practical vector. Coverage of Java 5 concurrency features is very thorough. The book is extremely well-written, relatively easy to read. The book stands on par with such established Java book jems as Josh Bloch's "Effective Java", Eckel's "Thinking in Java" and Rod Johnson's J2EE books. All in all, this is a definite must have for any Java specialist. 5

The definitive book on concurrency in Java

Concurrency, in the form of threads, has been present in the Java language from its beginning, and this book is all about concurrency in the current and future versions of Java with an emphasis on writing practical code. This book is not meant to be an introduction to concurrency in Java. Its intention is to offer practical design rules to assist developers in the difficult process of creating safe, fast, and high-performance concurrent classes. While many of the general concepts in this book are applicable to versions of Java prior to Java 1.5, most of the code examples and all the statements about the Java Memory Model assume Java 1.5 or later. By "later" I mean that some of the code examples use library features added in the not-yet released Java 1.6. After the introduction, which consists of Chapter 1, the book is divided into four parts: Part one, "Fundamentals", (Chapters 2-5) are about the basic concepts of concurrency, thread safety, and composing thread-safe classes from those concurrent building blocks provided by the Java language. Chapter 2, "Thread Safety", and 3, "Sharing Objects", include nearly all of the rules on avoiding concurrency hazards, constructing thread-safe classes, and verifying thread safety. Thus, these chapters emphasize theory and have less code than other chapters in the book. Chapter 4 , "Composing Objects", covers techniques for composing large thread-safe classes from smaller thread-safe classes. Chapter 5, "Building Blocks", covers thread-safe collections and synchronizers, which are the the concurrent building blocks provided by Java. To conclude the section, the authors work through the steps of building an efficient, scalable result cache that could be used in a web server. A summary of the most important rules presented in Part one occur at the end of the section. Part two, "Structuring Concurrent Applications", describes how proper use of threading improves the throughput and responsiveness of concurrent applications. The topics covered in this section include identifying tasks that can be run in parallel and programming them as such, proper termination of tasks, using thread pools for greater efficiency in multi-threaded systems, and finally improving the responsiveness of single-threaded systems, GUI's being the most prominent example. Part 3, "Liveness, Performance, and Testing" is concerned with ensuring that concurrent programs actually do what is expected of them and do so with acceptable performance. The authors describe how to avoid situations where a thread waits forever, also known as a "liveness failure". Also included in this section is an excellent explanation of the use of the "ThreadLocal" class and how it makes it much easier to manage the process of associating a thread with its per-thread data. Part 4, "Advanced Topics", covers issues that will probably be interesting only to experienced developers. These topics include explicit locks, atomic variables, nonblocking algorithms, and developing custom synchronizers. Any of these techniques, explicit locks in particular, can cause chaos when done incorrectly. This book shows how to use these techniques safely and with confidence. One of the things that makes this book so good are the many code examples. There are only snippets of entire programs included in the book itself in order to highlight the portions relevant to the concurrency issue being discussed. The code examples are either good examples, questionable examples, or bad code examples and are decorated with "Smiley Faces" that are either happy, concerned, or unhappy depending on the quality of the code. The full versions of the code examples, as well as supplementary examples and errata, are supposed to be available from the book's website. However, at the time I am writing this, they are not yet available. Overall, I would say that this is the most complete and accessible resource on concurrency in Java I have seen in print. I highly recommend it. 5

The best book on Java in a long time

Brian has a winner here. I was fortunate to obtain a preview copy from Brian Goetz and have devoured the book. This is the first book that I know of since Doug Lea's Concurrent Programming in Java, that addresses Java threading and concurrency with such vigor. Each section has a solid example that will also stand up in the real world. The book was put together very carefully, with great attention to detail, as is essential for a book about concurrency. One of the best parts of the book was Brian leading me on all the time. He would show me a piece of code as a solution to a problem, and I would think of ways that it could cause problems. He then addressed those problems on his next page, but caused other problems. This carried on until the final solution, which was always elegant beyond anything I have written :-) A solid 5 star rating for this book! Definitely a good meaty book for Java Specialists. 032133678X 0201310090 1932394613 0201310058 0596007124 0321349601_us 1149507666000 us unread

0975212893 Java Drawing with Apache Batik : A Tutorial Book Alexander Kolesnikov 28 October, 2006 BrainySoftware http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0975212893.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0975212893.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0975212893.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $39.95 $25.17 1276701 Computer Books: Languages Computers Computers - Languages / Programming Programming Languages - Java Computers / Programming Languages / Java Paperback 1 0975212893 Not yet released. 1932394613 0976694085 1590596161 1590595807 0975212893_us 1149507609000 us unread

0131472232 Java EE and .NET Interoperability : Integration Strategies, Patterns, and Best Practices Book Marina Fisher Ray Lai Sonu Sharma Laurence Moroney 21 April, 2006 Prentice Hall PTR http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0131472232.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0131472232.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0131472232.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $49.99 $31.49 $19.90 $49.99 $19.99 390421 Computer Bks - Languages / Programming Computer Books: Languages Computers Computers - Languages / Programming Programming Languages - Java Computers / Programming Languages / Java Paperback 1 0131472232 Usually ships in 24 hours 3.5 2 3

Not detailed enough and poor examples

The first couple of chapters are OK. Thereafter I found the integration concepts and strategies half done and hardly complete. The code examples are not commented at all. I noticed the code would work only on sun application server and the configuration details are not discussed are missing. I tried to deploy the code example using websphere 6 it did'nt run at all. The chapters in part3 and part4 are more of theoretical coverage and kind of standards work in progress. In comparison, I like Application Interoperability - Patterns and Best Practices from Microsoft Press over this book. This book did'nt help me at all. 4

Good information for the right audience...

As much as Microsoft might want you to be an all-.NET shop, the reality of the enterprise computing environment is that both .NET and Java will be used in some way, shape, or form. If you're a developer or architect responsible for integrating platforms, this book could help you out... Java EE and .NET Interoperability : Integration Strategies, Patterns, and Best Practices by Marina Fisher, Ray Lai, Sonu Sharma, and Laurence Moroney. Contents: Part 1 - Java EE .NET Interoperability: Java EE Platform Interoperability Essentials; .NET Platform Interoperability Essentials Part 2- Synchronous Integration Solutions: Exploring Synchronous Integration; Web Services for Synchronous Integration; .NET Remoting for Synchronous Integration; Resource Tier Synchronous Integration Part 3 - Asynchronous Integration Solutions: Exploring Asynchronous Integration; Asynchronous Web Services Integration; Messaging; Resource Tier Asynchronous Integration Part 4 - Addressing Quality of Service Requirements: Addressing Quality of Services; Managing Distributed Transactions; Java EE .NET Security Interoperability; Java EE .NET Reliability, Availability, and Scalability; Managing Java EE .NET Interoperability Applications Part 5 - Implementation: Migrating .NET Applications to Java Index The book is targeted towards developers as well as architects and managers responsible for these types of projects. The focus and approach tends more towards the practical, "here's one way to do it" methodology. There's no hesitation to suggest third-party frameworks and applications to help you accomplish something, as well as providing enough code to allow the reader to get a feel for how it all fits together. It's not a comprehensive approach to every last thing you need to know, but if you're charged with platform integration, this will give you the practical foundation you'll need to start examining the options available to you. Given the right needs and the right audience, it'll offer value to the reader... 0131463071 0321349601 0131872486 0131428985 0131488740 0131472232_us 1149507666000 us unread

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1844804186 Java First : First Semester from Structured Programming to Objects Book Khalid A. Mughal Torill Hamre Rolf W. Rasmussen 10 January, 2007 Int. Thomson Business Press http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1844804186.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1844804186.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1844804186.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $49.99 $49.99 Computer Bks - General Information Computer Books: General Computer Science Computers Computers / Computer Science Paperback 1 1844804186 Not yet released. 1844804186_us 1149507608000 us unread

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0131735799 Java For Students (5th Edition) Book Douglas Bell Mike Parr 08 May, 2006 Prentice Hall http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0131735799.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0131735799.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0131735799.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $98.00 $98.00 $86.36 $86.36 1018403 Computers - Languages / Programming Programming Languages - Java Computers / Programming Languages / Java Hardcover 1 0131735799 Usually ships in 1 to 3 weeks 3.5 16 1

Not a good choice

As a Java instructor, I respect the author's attempt to create a Java Textbook; this is not a simple task. However, I must say that this particular text is NOT a good choice for use in an Introductory Java course. I found this book a very difficult read, as some other reviewers have also commented - statements are tedious and at times you get the impression that the authors real intent is to convey how eloquent he can formulate his statements rather than convey a clear understanding of the technical principles being described. I find myself constantly wishing he'd "get to the point". Java is all about Objects, yet OOP is only presented later in the text, and then as an after thought. I've seen this in other books too, where you get the impression the author is not comfortable with OOP and prefers to provide an explanation of classic procedural programming techniques, rather than embrassing and exploiting the benefits of OOP as provided with a langauge like Java. The student may come away with a basic understanding of Java syntax, but will not adequetly appreciate or understand the fundamental reasons we're using Java instead of COBOL, PASCAL, or BASIC - it isn't just becuase it's a cool language.The focus on Applets may be useful for grabing the initial interest of the student and learning "fun", but by ignoring the more important role of java applications is doing students a disservice. Applets today are taking a less significant role in web application developement with the use of .NET and JSP. There are many better choices: the Dietel books, Core Java, BlueJ.org, etc. 1

A bad book for any novice!

From my own experience I found trying to learn from this book an extremely difficult task especially being new to programming in general. I have spent more time flipping through other books trying to make sense of what these authors have written. If you are a novice to programming I suggest something with easier reading and better explanation of the topics such as Sams, Teach Yourself Java in 21 Days as suggested by the last review. 1

Don't waste your money

If I didn't have a professor that was so detailed this book would have me totally lost. Their explanations seem to fall short half the time. Becuase this book is so poor I'm in the process of finding another Beginning Java book to fill in the details. Don't waste your money. 0131735799_us 1149507666000 us unread

0977320618 Java for the Beginning Programmer Book Jeff Heaton May, 2006 Heaton Research, Inc. http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0977320618.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0977320618.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0977320618.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $29.99 $29.99 $35.09 Computers - Languages / Programming Programming - Object Oriented Programming Programming Languages - Java Paperback 1 0977320618 Usually ships in 24 hours 0977320618_us 1149507666000 us unread

0596527756 Java Generics and Collections Book Maurice Naftalin Philip Wadler 01 August, 2006 O'Reilly Media, Inc. http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0596527756.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0596527756.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0596527756.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $34.99 $22.04 Computer Books: Languages Computers Computers - Languages / Programming Programming - Object Oriented Programming Programming - Software Development Programming Languages - Java Computers / Programming Languages / Java java, generics, collections, data structures, templates, object oriented, 5.0, objects Paperback 1 0596527756 Not yet released. 0596527756_us 1149507618000 us unread

0596527500 Java I/O Book Elliotte Harold 16 May, 2006 O'Reilly Media, Inc. http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0596527500.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0596527500.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0596527500.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $49.99 $31.49 $29.50 $49.99 $31.44 70411 Computer Books: Languages Computers Computers - Languages / Programming Programming - Object Oriented Programming Programming - Software Development Programming Languages - Java Computers / Programming Languages / Java java, i/o, nio, programming, networking, streams, compression, cryptography, Input, Output, 5, Java 5, input streams, output streams, CipherInputStream, ZipOutputStream, buffered streams, UNICODE, classes, related classes Paperback 1 0596527500 Usually ships in 24 hours Because it doesn't provide a printf() function like C/C++, some developers think Java isn't up to snuff with files and streams. Author Rusty Harold Elliotte argues against this notion in Java I/O, a book that shows how Java's stream support can help simplify network programming, internationalization, and even compression and encryption. The book opens with an overview of Java's stream capabilities. (The author defends Java's lack of support for console input/output (I/O) since today's applications use graphical user interfaces anyway.) He shows how to open, read, and write local files in Java applications. His file viewer example presents data in a variety of formats. (This example is improved several times until it winds up supporting different international character sets by the end of the book.) Next the author covers network programming using URL and network streams, including sockets. Sections on filters show how classes can filter out characters within streams. The tour moves forward to cover data streams, which permit streaming of Java's primitive data types. Details on how to communicate within Java programs using pipes follow. In a notable chapter, the author thoroughly explicates Java's support for encryption, including hashing, the Data Encryption Standard (DES) algorithm, and ciphers. The last portion of the book explains object serialization, which allows Java objects to save and restore their state, plus it includes sections on Java's support for data compression (and ZIP files) and multilingual Unicode character sets. (Java is prepared to handle virtually any of the world's languages with its reader and writer classes.) Finally, the author shows how you can format output in Java using its support for width and numeric precision APIs. In all, Elliotte makes a good case that Java streams are a flexible and powerful part of the language, and certainly not a limitation. --Richard Dragan 3.5 23 5

Great 2nd edition of a comprehensive book on Java I/O

The first edition of Java I/O is now seven years old, and it is definitely time for a second edition considering all that has transpired. Note that the second edition was released in May 2006, so all reviews older than that are referring to the first edition. In this second edition there are basically eight entirely new chapters added to the original seventeen. It is probably worth the price of an upgrade especially if you are interested in Java I/O as it pertains to devices. I review this second edition in the context of comparing it to the first edition. Chapters 1 through 5 are virtually the same. Chapter six, "Filter Streams", has had one section - Print Streams - removed and had another section on the ProgressMonitorInputStream class added. ProgressMonitorInputStream is a unique filter stream hiding in the javax.swing package that displays progress bars that indicate how much of a stream has been read and how much remains to be read, and this book shows how to use it when reading unusually large files. The section on Print Streams that was removed from chapter six now has an entire chapter dedicated to it. This is because, starting in Java 5, the familiar PrintStream class has become a lot more powerful and interesting. Besides basic console output, it now provides extensive capabilities for formatting numbers and dates in a straightforward and easy fashion. The chapters on data streams, streams in memory, and compressing streams are virtually unchanged from the first edition. However, the "Jar Files" section from the "compressing streams" chapter has been removed and now has an entire chapter dedicated to it. In this chapter, among other topics, the author explains the Pack200 compression format and evangelizes the increasingly popular technique of hiding noncode resources like images and data files inside JAR files. The two chapters on cryptographic streams and object serialization are basically the same as before, except that one section has been added on the JavaDoc in the serialization chapter. The next section of the book, on New I/O, is completely new material and is comprised of three chapters. The java.nio packages provide nonblocking and memory-mapped I/O, and chapters 14 through 16 cover these powerful new abilities in depth. The new I/O model is based on channels and buffers instead of streams. This model doesn't replace traditional stream-based I/O for many uses. However, it is significantly faster in one important use case: servers that process many simultaneous clients. The next two sections of the book, "The File System" and "Text", pretty much mimic chapters 12 through 16 of the first edition. The final section of the book, "Devices", has almost completely new material. Some of the most exciting developments since the first edition have occurred in the world of small devices,in both peripherals such as GPS receivers that connect to a host computer and devices such as Palm Pilots that are themselves increasingly powerful computers. Treatment of both of these has been dramatically expanded in this edition. For those readers working with serial and parallel port devices, the Java Communications API chapter has been upgraded to version 3.0. However, in 2006 more and more devices use faster USB ports instead. Consequently, Chapter 23 covers the new Java USB API in depth. For smaller devices that can't quite run full Java but need to perform I/O nonetheless, J2ME offers the Generic Connection Framework (GCF). Chapter 24 covers this alternative to the traditional I/O framework. Finally, Chapter 25 uses the GCF to communicate over one of the newest I/O buses, the Bluetooth API used for wireless communications with a variety of peripherals. I was very pleased with the first edition of this book, and I have an even higher recommendation for this second edition. There are clear descriptions of how to use the Java I/O classes as well as well-commented code examples for everything. However, if you are just recently coming from a C or C++ programming perspective, the Java I/O model is so different that it will likely be a shock no matter how good the teacher is, and Mr. Harold is an excellent one. I notice that Amazon does not show the table of contents, so I do that here: Part PART I: Basic I/O Chapter 1. Introducing I/O Chapter 2. Output Streams Chapter 3. Input Streams Part PART II: Data Sources Chapter 4. File Streams Chapter 5. Network Streams Part PART III: Filter Streams Chapter 6. Filter Streams Chapter 7. Print Streams Chapter 8. Data Streams Chapter 9. Streams in Memory Chapter 10. Compressing Streams Chapter 11. JAR Archives Chapter 12. Cryptographic Streams Chapter 13. Object Serialization Part PART IV: New I/O Chapter 14. Buffers Chapter 15. Channels Chapter 16. Nonblocking I/O Part PART V: The File System Chapter 17. Working with Files Chapter 18. File Dialogs and Choosers Part PART VI: Text Chapter 19. Character Sets and Unicode Chapter 20. Readers and Writers Chapter 21. Formatted I/O with java.text Part PART VII: Devices Chapter 22. The Java Communications API Chapter 23. USB Chapter 24. The J2ME Generic Connection Framework Chapter 25. Bluetooth Part PART VIII: Appendix Character Sets 1

Pass On This One

You'd probably do better following the tutorials on the Sun site. 1

Shame O'Reilly, shame!

I picked up this book to cover multilingual charset issues, which are missing in all the standard Java resources but neatly listed in this title's contents/index. Great, I thought, something for those of us who speak English but sell software to the other 93% of the world. After I had laid my [money] down at the bookstore, I found out the sordid truth- the author is a newbie in regards to the multilingual issues but didn't let it stop him from writing down some shockers. To be nice, he probably got a little enthusiastic about Java's genuinely wide multilingual capabilities and tried to promote it, but some parts of this book are anti-education, end of story... 0596007213 0596002882 1565924525 0321349601 0596007019 0596527500_us 1149507666000 us unread

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1852338326 Java Methods for Financial Engineering (Springer Professional Computing) Book Philip Barker October, 2006 Springer http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1852338326.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1852338326.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1852338326.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $79.95 $79.95 Business & Economics Business/Economics Computer Science Computers - Languages / Programming Finance Programming - Software Development Programming Languages - Java Statistics Computers / Programming / Software Development Hardcover 1 1852338326 Not yet released. 1852338326_us 1149507609000 us unread

0672329077 Java Phrasebook Book Timothy R. Fisher 01 August, 2006 Sams http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0672329077.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0672329077.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0672329077.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $16.99 $11.04 283480 Certification Guides - General Computer Bks - Certification Computer Books: General Computers Computers - Languages / Programming Programming Languages - Java Computers / Technical Skills Paperback 1 0672329077 Not yet released. 0672329077_us 1149507618000 us unread

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0072263857 Java SE 6 : The Complete Reference, Seventh Edition (Osborne Complete Reference) Book Herbert Schildt 31 October, 2006 McGraw-Hill Osborne Media http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0072263857.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0072263857.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0072263857.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $49.99 $31.49 Computer Books: Languages Computers Computers - Languages / Programming Programming Languages - Java Computers / Programming Languages / Java Paperback 1 0072263857 Not yet released. 0072263857_us 1149507609000 us unread

354022176X Java unter Lotus Domino : Know-how für die Anwendungsentwicklung (Xpert.press) Book Thomas Ekert May, 2006 Springer http://images.amazon.com/images/P/354022176X.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/354022176X.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/354022176X.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg Computers - Languages / Programming Programming - General Programming Languages - Java Anwendungsentwicklung Computers / Programming Languages / General Domino Java Logging Software-Engineering Software-Entwicklung Unit-Tests Web Services Hardcover 1 354022176X This item is currently not available. 354022176X_us 1149507666000 us unread

0321396855 Java Web Application Development with Eclipse Book Lawrence Mandel Arthur Ryman 08 February, 2008 Addison-Wesley Professional http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0321396855.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0321396855.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0321396855.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $39.99 $39.99 1447103 Computer Bks - Languages / Programming Computer Books: Languages Computers Programming Languages - Java Computers / Programming Languages / Java Paperback 1 0321396855 Not yet released. 0321396855_us 1149507608000 us unread

0763734233 Java Web Development Book Kai Qian 15 July, 2006 Jones & Bartlett Publishers http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0763734233.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0763734233.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0763734233.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $84.95 $84.95 Computer Books: General Computer Science Computers Computers - Languages / Programming Java (Computer program language) Programming Languages - General Web site development Paperback 1 0763734233 Not yet released. 0763734233_us 1149507619000 us unread

0899572219 Java With the Judges (Coffee Cup Bible Series) Book Sandra L. Glahn 20 April, 2006 AMG Publishers http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0899572219.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0899572219.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0899572219.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $12.99 $10.00 $8.84 $12.99 $8.83 541842 Bible - Study - Old Testament Devotional Religion Religion - Biblical Studies Spiral-bound 1 0899572219 Usually ships in 24 hours 5.0 4 5

Just read the table of contents

The Good Guys, The Good and the Reluctant, Good and Bad, Good or Bad?, Samson the Conflicted, The Ugly... sounds like the cast of characters for a mini-series, right? Welcome to Java with the Judges. Ms. Glahn's flair for humor, her conversational approach and her scholarly research combine to present Israel's judges as real people. Creative, conflicted, confused at times... Israel's own mini-drama. But Java with the Judges is not just a portrait gallery of Israel's top judges. Glahn takes readers from Biblical observation, to interpretation, to personal application. Yep, even the book of Judges has something applicable for each of us. One final note: Glahn suggests engaging God through this study with all five senses. Using the resources she provides on her website, you actually CAN create your own portrait gallery of Israel's top judges. Talk about a Bible Study that sticks with you! 5

Judges revealed

Java with the Judges was my favorite of the Coffee Cup series. I loved the background and history summaries. I wish there were more commentary. Ms. Glahn does such a wonderful job with commentary. She has a real gift for putting culture into context. Her discussion on the power of women is compelling. This study should open up some real conversations with the group. It is so helpful to have the Biblical text printed in the study. I always have it with me. 5

Outstanding Bible Study!

Java with the Judges is the third study I have completed in Sandra Glahn's Coffee Cup Bible Studies. I'll have to admit that I'd approached this study a little more cautiously and, initially, with a little less excitement. But I was soon pleasantly surprised, as I dug into the chapters, at how much I enjoyed and gleaned from this Old Testament study! The historical information and Biblical links to other passages kept me coming back day after day with a studious appetite and a newness of intrigue to learn more from the often-avoided Old Testament writings. Wow, who'd of thought all those stories about people with strange names could turn out to be so interesting and full of knowledge about our God! 0899572235 0899572200 0899572227 0899572219_us 1149507666000 us unread

0321430328 JavaScript and Ajax for the Web, Sixth Edition : Visual QuickStart Guide (6th Edition) (Visual Quickstart Guides) Book Tom Negrino Dori Smith 25 August, 2006 Peachpit Press http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0321430328.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0321430328.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0321430328.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $24.99 $15.74 301973 Computer Books: Languages Computers Computers - Languages / Programming Internet - Web Site Design Programming Languages - CGI, Javascript, Perl, VBScript Computers / Programming Languages / CGI, JavaScript, Perl, VBScript Paperback 1 0321430328 Not yet released. 0321130073 032119439X 0321245652 0321430328_us 1149507375000 us unread

0596101996 JavaScript: The Definitive Guide Book David Flanagan 01 August, 2006 O'Reilly Media, Inc. http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0596101996.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0596101996.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0596101996.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $49.99 $31.49 60947 Computer Books: Languages Computers Computers - Languages / Programming Programming Languages - CGI, Javascript, Perl, VBScript Computers / Programming Languages / CGI, JavaScript, Perl, VBScript JavaScript, Ajax, DHTML, HTML, scripting, css, dom, httprequest, Paperback 1 0596101996 Not yet released. Provides a rapid and thorough exposition of the JavaScript programming language, as well as an in-depth reference section covering each JavaScript function, object, method, and even handler. Experienced programmers will quickly find the information they need to start writing JavaScript programs. 4.5 214 5

A programmer's JavaScript reference

If you've been in web programming for a while, you're undoubtedly familiar with JavaScript, but may have dismissed it as a "toy language" for flashy graphics effects without much substance. Although JavaScript is certainly the web professional's tool of choice for flashy graphics effects without much substance, the language itself is surprisingly substantial. I had been meaning to learn more about it for years and tried off and on by looking at example scripts and reading online documentation here and there. I finally decided to break down and buy a book on JavaScript, and I'm glad that it was this one. I can't recommend it highly enough - it's especially targeted at people with programming experience. This book doesn't waste your time with basic constructs or meaningless metaphors; it gets to the point, describes JavaScript, and lets you get on about your business. As the book itself clarifies, JavaScript itself is just a programming language and doesn't necessarily have anything to do with web browsers per se. However, since virtually all JavaScript programming is done for the purpose of controlling web pages, the author specifically dedicates one third of the book to the core JavaScript language, and another third to a thorough description of the bindings between JavaScript and the browser. (The final third is a well-indexed reference that you'll find indispensable). Since you're probably most interested in the JavaScript-browser bindings (the core language is fairly well documented online), let me say that this books coverage of it is excellent. It covers the entire history of JavaScript, detailing compatibility issues between Netscape, IE, and Mozilla (all the way back to the very first release of Netscape) and detailing exactly the sorts of uses that JavaScript is typically being put to these days. An example in the section on event handling shows how to implement drag and drop on a web page in JavaScript (bet you didn't know you could do that!) and there's even a lengthy section on the relationship between JavaScript and CSS. I couldn't be happier with the book - it lived entirely up to my expectations and was well worth the money I spent on it. 5

Better than a reference

JavaScript the definitive guide is not only the reference, it is built following a logical pattern, is full of useful tips, warnings and recommendations ; it is made by somebody who is well aware of JS strengths and weakenesses, someone used to programming languages able to find out what is behind this interpreted code. Unfortunately, JavaScript is not like C++ or Java, its implementation depends on the browser, and this book enhances differences between implementations - reading the book help preventing headaches due to the differences between browsers. The "icing on the cake" is the 45 pages intuitive index. A must-have. 1

Way out-dated; new edition coming out Aug 2006

This 4th edition of Javascript was published in 2001 and is by now way out-dated. Granted, a lot has *not* changed with Javascript, but new techniques and formats have become available. Luckily, a new edition (5th ed.) of this book will be available in August 2006. Better hold off your purchase until the new edition. Then this book will deserve 4 stars. 0596004672 0596005253 0596003161 1932394613 0764557432 0596101996_us 1149507375000 us unread

0072262400 JavaServer Faces : The Complete Reference (Complete Reference Series) Book Ed Burns Chris Schalk 01 August, 2006 McGraw-Hill Osborne Media http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0072262400.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0072262400.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0072262400.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $49.99 $31.49 296717 Computer Bks - Languages / Programming Computer Books: Languages Computers Computers - Languages / Programming Programming - General Programming Languages - Java Computers / Programming Languages / Java Paperback 1 0072262400 Not yet released. 1590595807 1932394125 193239415X 0131463055 1932394613 0072262400_us 1149507618000 us unread

0975212834 JavaServer Faces Component Catalog : From Tomahawk to AJAX Book Paul Deck Budianto Lie 01 September, 2006 BrainySoftware http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0975212834.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0975212834.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0975212834.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $39.95 $25.17 867659 Computer Books: Languages Computers Computers - Languages / Programming Programming Languages - Java Computers / Programming Languages / Java Paperback 1 0975212834 Not yet released. 0975212834_us 1149507609000 us unread

B0006C4O1I Juju-sheep and the python's moonstone,: And other moon stories from different times and different places Book Miriam Schlein 1973 A. Whitman http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0006C4O1I.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0006C4O1I.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0006C4O1I.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $55.00 Unknown Binding B0006C4O1I This item is currently not available. B0006C4O1I_us 1149507595000 us unread

0413625508 Just the Words "Monty Python's Flying Circus" Book Graham Chapman John Cleese Terry Gilliam Eric Idle Terry Jones Michael Palin 05 October, 1989 Methuen Publishing Ltd http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0413625508.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0413625508.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0413625508.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $2.95 $20.00 $7.95 3150020 Film & television screenplays Hardcover 0413625508 This item is currently not available. 4.5 4 5

And now for something completely written

This edition is vol. 1 (the first 23 episodes) of the British publication from 1989, documenting, with an very good index at the back. The visual power of MPFC's comedy is obvious, but reading their hilarious lunacy is just as fun. Example: "Now there's Gervaise, and Gervaise has shot himself - Gervaise is Upperclass Twit of the Year. There's Nige, he's shot Simon by mistake, Simon is back up and there's Nigel, Nigel's shot himself. Nigel is third in this fine and most exciting Upperclass Twit of the Year Show I've ever seen. Nigel's clubbed himself into fourth place. (three coffins on stand with medals)..." and so much more. It is a fun addition to a library. 4

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaaaaaaaaaa

Sometimes the jokes in »Monty Python's Flying Circus« are fired so fast that you don't catch it all. This is your chance to do so.Hilarious. The greatest comedians ever. Now on paper. I'm afraid I'll die laughing... 4

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaaaaaaaaaa

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0596002475 Jython Essentials (O'Reilly Scripting) Book Samuele Pedroni Noel Rappin 21 March, 2002 O'Reilly Media, Inc. http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0596002475.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0596002475.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0596002475.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $24.95 $15.72 $35.79 $45.25 145441 2JVK9K12DSGXE Computer Books: Languages Computer Networks Computer Programming Languages Computers Computers - Languages / Programming Internet - General Java (Computer language) Java (Computer program languag Java (Computer program language) Programming - General Programming Languages - General Programming Languages - Java Python (Computer language) Python (Computer program langu Python (Computer program language) Computers / Programming Languages / CGI, JavaScript, Perl, VBScript Jython, Java, Python Programming languages Paperback 1 0596002475 Usually ships in 4 to 6 weeks 636920002475 4.0 5 4

jython

This is a good overall guide to jython and I think it is as good as all the rest of the nutshell books are. 3

Good language coverage, but awkward.

This text has good coverage of the language features, but the presentation and organization is poor. If you're a Java developer looking to pick up jython quickly, I'd suggest "Jython for Java Programmers" instead. 4

Informative, but poorly presented

I found the book to be informative in learning JPython, but it seemed to have ignored the most practical use-cases for JPython, light scripting and unit testing, and kept suggesting JPython as an alternative for working in Java. In addition, I felt the book was poorly (or boringly) written and that the authors failed to draw on any significant amount of experience in writing the book. I would have preferred a book that wrote of JPython as a scripting language for Java and that offered advice on how best to leverage JPython for this purpose. I recommend taking a hard look at the other titles before purchasing this one.OK, I'm adding a paragraph to this review after owning the book for a few weeks. It IS a very helpful book and I'm raising my rating from 2 to 4 stars. Perhaps I was thrown off at first by the succinctness of the text, but I've come to find that it makes it a great reference book. I'm already a half-way experienced programmer and do not need the filler and the explanation of concepts that thicker books probably provide.Also, there is a helpful section on unit testing which I'd missed (It wasn't placed very well in the book) and python is a flexible enough language that someone should be able to figure out different ways to unit test without the section. 0735711119 0596002815 0596007973 0596000855 0596001886 0596002475_us 1149507457000 us unread

0958605084 Keeping Carpet Pythons Book Simon Kortlang Darren Green 2001 Australian Reptile Keepers Publications http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0958605084.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0958605084.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0958605084.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $44.49 1751547 Paperback 0958605084 This item is currently not available. 0958605084_us 1149507501000 us unread

0958605076 Keeping Children's Pythons Book Greg Fyfe Darren Green 2003 Australian Reptile Keepers Publications http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0958605076.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0958605076.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0958605076.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg 866910 Paperback 0958605076 This item is currently not available. 0958605076_us 1149507457000 us unread

0613117557 Koi's Python Book Miriam Moore October, 1999 Bt Bound http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0613117557.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0613117557.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0613117557.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $11.20 $8.96 Children: Grades 2-3 Library Binding 0613117557 This item is currently not available. 0613117557_us 1149507501000 us unread

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221102548X La danse du python Book Silver 21 March, 1995 L'Ecole des loisirs http://images.amazon.com/images/P/221102548X.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/221102548X.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/221102548X.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $17.21 $25.84 Paperback 221102548X This item is currently not available. 221102548X_us 1149507535000 us unread

2862746851 Le grand livre des Monty Python Book Monty Python 10 November, 1999 Le Cherche-midi Editeur http://images.amazon.com/images/P/2862746851.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/2862746851.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/2862746851.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $29.06 3529398 Paperback 2862746851 This item is currently not available. 2862746851_us 1149507501000 us unread

0201709384 Learn to Program Using Python: A Tutorial for Hobbyists, Self-Starters, and All Who Want to Learn the Art of Computer Programming Book Alan Gauld 15 January, 2001 Addison-Wesley Professional http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0201709384.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0201709384.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0201709384.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $32.95 $20.76 $5.66 $18.00 $18.44 280198 12QMUFII6951W 15ND45SPUBCTE 22OCQHXOF37ZS Computer Books: Languages Computer Networks Computer Programming Languages Computers Computers - Languages / Programming Internet - General Programming Languages - General Programming Languages - Python Python (Computer program langu Python (Computer program language) Computers / Programming Languages / General Paperback 1 0201709384 Usually ships in 1 to 3 weeks 785342709384 4.0 22 3

Not really for the novice

As a slightly experienced C programmer and a somewhat experienced Python programmer, I found this book useful. It described Python's features and at the same time put them in the larger context of what modern computer languages do. Like several other reviewers, however, I think the level of this book would be far too intimidating for someone learning to program for the first time. Also, for me the final section of the book ("Case Studies") delved too deeply into object-oriented and GUI issues not directly relevant to my work, and I put the book aside at that point. Bottom line: a nice recap but not really for the novice. 3

fills a niche, but not the ideal beginner's book

In some ways this book seems like it's in search of an identity. It's obviously intended for the novice, and its short chapters and general topics reflect that, but many things are left unexplained or explained poorly, such as the chapter on object-oriented programming. This book definitely fills a niche for introductory python books for an audience with no programming experience, and my frequent frustration has not necessarily outweighed the value of the short chapters on diverse topics. Part of the problem may be that Amazon sold me a copy of the 1st edition rather than the 2nd. I'm going to finish the book soon and print out the Python tutorial to see if that can answer some unanswered questions. 5

Programming Python Pleases Poor Programming Producers!

I am a graduate student with over 10 programming languages in my toolbox. Python is by far the easiest to learn, easiest to debug and work with. My gratitude goes out to the developers of this powerful language.This is an extremely well written with very concise explanations and a great amount of humor added in (look at the Spam class in chapter 6!).This could be the start of a new British Invasion, except this time with the Knights who say "NI".Beginning programmers and experienced developers will frequently reference this book. 1592000738 0596002815 0201748843 0596007973 1887902996 0201709384_us 1149507501000 us unread

0596527462 Learning JavaScript Book Shelley Powers 01 October, 2006 O'Reilly Media, Inc. http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0596527462.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0596527462.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0596527462.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $29.99 $18.89 Computers - Languages / Programming Internet - Web Site Design Internet - World Wide Web Programming Languages - CGI, Javascript, Perl, VBScript Computers / Programming Languages / CGI, JavaScript, Perl, VBScript JavaScript, Ajax, scripting, DOM, CSS, dynamic HTML, HTTP, object model, ecmascript, ecma Paperback 1 0596527462 Not yet released. 0596527462_us 1149507375000 us unread

0596002815 Learning Python, Second Edition Book Mark Lutz David Ascher December, 2003 O'Reilly Media, Inc. http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0596002815.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0596002815.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0596002815.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $39.99 $25.19 $17.55 $39.99 $21.65 13868 TF04IP34QCX4 1TU4ABVMFEFAC 2I1R6BD98FTLG Computer Books: Internet General Computers Computers - Languages / Programming Programming Languages - General Programming Languages - Python Python (Computer language) Python (Computer program langu Python (Computer program language) Computers / Programming Languages / CGI, JavaScript, Perl, VBScript Internet languages Python, scripting language, object-oriented programming, Mac OS X Panther, Unix, Linux, Windows NT, OS/2, classes, functions, modules, operators Paperback 1 0596002815 Usually ships in 24 hours The authors of Learning Python show you enough essentials of the Python scripting language to enable you to begin solving problems right away, then reveal more powerful aspects of the language one at a time. This approach is sure to appeal to programmers and system administrators who have urgent problems and a preference for learning by semi-guided experimentation. First off, Learning Python shows the relationships among Python scripts and their interpreter (in a mostly platform-neutral way). Then, the authors address the mechanics of the language itself, providing illustrations of how Python conceives of numbers, strings, and other objects as well as the operators you use to work with them. Dictionaries, lists, tuples, and other data structures specific to Python receive plenty of attention including complete examples. Authors Mark Lutz and David Ascher build on that fundamental information in their discussions of functions and modules, which evolve into coverage of namespaces, classes, and the object-oriented aspects of Python programming. There's also information on creating graphical user interfaces (GUIs) for Python applications with Tkinter. In addition to its careful expository prose, Learning Python includes exercises that both test your Python skills and help reveal more elusive truths about the language. 4.0 75 5

This should be your first Python book!

This is simply a stellar introduction to the Python language, for both newcomers to programming and those who are already proficient in another language. I know there are several choices for 'beginning' type Python books, and you may be tempted to choose a different one because it is newer than this one, but please understand that you lose nothing by reading this book instead. It covers Python 2.3 (which is just short of the current 2.4), and there are only a couple of items not referred to (e.g. decorators and decimals). But you can easily read up on the latest features online. The benefits of this book far outweigh the fact that it was published a few years ago! Here is the true advantage of Learning Python: the authors describe the language in complete detail from the ground up. They begin with how to use the interactive interpreter and IDLE, and then move on to built-in data types. Every single thing that could be considered a 'component' of the Python language gets its own chapter (numbers, strings, lists, etc.), and the larger components (functions, modules, classes, etc.) each get their own Part (which is further divided into chapters). In other words, they take plenty of time to describe everything you need to know about everything in the language. You won't finish learning the core language until well into the 400-range of pages. Another intro Python book that I just began reading has already covered numbers, arithmetic operators, functions, modules, and a few other things, all by page 20! I won't name the book yet, because I'm not fairly deep enough in it yet. But this is certainly not good for a newcomer. Don't even wonder about other books! Learning Python covers every aspect of the language in great detail, yet at the same time remains intelligent (e.g. it does not explain to you what variables in general are (hopefully you have a basic understanding of programming already), but it explains in great detail what variables *in Python* are). After you read this book, you will have an amazing foundation in Python. 2

Not really useful

This book is not very good for actually learning Python. It also lacks a reference section and is excessively wordy. Learning implies tutorials and a gentle progression from basic to advanced subjects; this book does neither. For example, in chapter 3, "How You Run Programs", it introduces modules and namespaces--fairly advanced concepts to read about before even the first "hello world" program! In chapter 4, as it describes the use of numbers and strings, it is already delving deep into the uses and implications of Python's objects. With well over 500 pages, there should be plenty of room for a reference section, but there is none. There is no list of built-in classes and their methods. The overall tone of the book is enthusiastic, touting Python's object-orientedness and other advantages. Unfortunately, it is excessively wordy and difficult to read. Cheerleading can be excused, but it is present on nearly every page and gets old quick. In a book about programming or a programming language, one might want tutorials, reference, discussion of advanced topics, or code examples. This book provides none of these things. I do not recommend it. 2

Not worth the expense.

Programming books have two uses: to teach you and as a reference. This book does an adequate job of teaching, but I'd say that "How to Think Like a Computer Scientist" does better, and you can just look at it on the website. The index is lousy, which makes it hard to find things, and it doesn't cover enough material to make it useful. I wish I'd just bought two copies of Python in a Nutshell instead. 0596007973 0596000855 0596001886 1592000738 0596009402 0596002815_us 1149507423000 us unread

0596009828 Learning UML 2.0 Book Russ Miles Kim Hamilton 25 April, 2006 O'Reilly Media, Inc. http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0596009828.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0596009828.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0596009828.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $44.99 $29.69 $23.94 $44.99 $23.95 216247 Computer Books: Languages Computers Computers - Languages / Programming Operating Systems - General Programming - Software Development Programming Languages - Assembly Language Programming Languages - General Computers / Programming / Software Development Java UML Unified Modeling Language model diagram use-case Paperback 1 0596009828 Usually ships in 24 hours 3.5 3 5

UML Definitely Made Easy

Easy to understand -- great diagrams -- I highly recommend this book. 1

The are much better options

Unfortunately, this book is so poorly written that it is often confusing. Especially for a beginner, I highly recommend obtaining a copy of Pilone's book instead. The examples are much clearer and easier to follow, and the exposition is extremely clear. 5

UML made easy

I just finished Learning UML 2.0. Java is an object-oriented programming language. The power about Java comes from the ability to create objects from classes. Classes should be written to promote encapsulation, inheritance, and polymorphism. Objects that are instantiated from classes can become very complex. UML (Unified Modeling Language) is a tool to diagram and model objects. I love the Java language. However, I was deficient in using a modeling tool to diagram the structure of complex systems. UML and Software Engineering concepts have made me a better programmer. I was impressed with this book and have already purchased the related book UML 2.0 in Nutshell. If you are looking into learning UML I recommend this book. 0596007957 0521616786 0596102089 0735618798 1932394613 0596009828_us 1149507666000 us unread

0312086954 Life Before and After Monty Python: The Solo Flights of the Flying Circus Book Kim Howard Johnson April, 1993 St Martins Pr http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0312086954.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0312086954.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0312086954.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $15.95 $1.25 $3.00 $1.65 829823 Biography Comedians Comedy (Performing Arts) Entertainers Great Britain Monty Python (Comedy troupe) Performing Arts/Dance Television Plays And Programs Paperback 0312086954 This item is currently not available. 4.0 1 4

A good source of informations. Useful !

It's a detailed and exhaustive guide to the "solo" careers of the Python's members. More than a biography, this is a sort of diary, recordering their pre- and post-Python works (movies, tv shows, books,etc...) It can be useful, especially for those who (like me!) live in places in which the Monty Python are not so famous, and can't easily find material regarding them ! 0312086954_us 1149507586000 us unread

630645831X Life of Brian-Original Soundtrack Book Monty Python Cd9351 59842 31 March, 2004 EMPIRE MUSIC GROUP http://images.amazon.com/images/P/630645831X.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/630645831X.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/630645831X.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $11.99 Audio CD 630645831X This item is currently not available. 630645831X_us 1149507423000 us unread

1857934415 Life of Python Book George Perry 31 October, 1999 Chrysalis Books Group http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1857934415.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1857934415.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1857934415.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $31.00 $2.00 $19.63 Performing Arts/Dance Paperback 1857934415 This item is currently not available. 4.0 2 4

Like a biography of a rock band

Perry's first version of this biography of the Monty Python comedy team was published in 1983 and I read it in 1987. Some good friends who knew that I was python phanatic gave me this, not knowing of an earlier version--and how would they, because there is no indication on this book that it is a rewrite/reprint of anything. The indica page even states that this is a first edition and doesn't list the earlier book as the source of any material. Strange are the ways of publishers. The subject of Perry's writing deserves the update. The team has only grown in popularity over the intervening years and the members continue to entertain audiences with new work, from Gilliam's directing/writing career to Cleese's acting. The Life of Python reads like a biography of a rock band, which Python actually is more similar to than the traditional comedy group such as the Marx brothers. They are also, like the great rock groups of the sixties, now missing one member, making the chance of a true reformation impossible. Graham Chapman's death is not preventing Eric Idle from attempting a reunion "concert," this time to be presented in Las Vegas (the very idea of which appeals to the members' sense of humor).The basic material of the book is to try to track each member of the group from their comedic beginnings to the formation of the troupe and then to the work following the cancellation of the TV series, all interwoven by time. Sounds like a mess, but it works. Perry interviewed all the members, sometimes more than once, and the book is liberally sprinkled with quotes. This new version has color photos as well as black and white, which fills the book (every page has a picture on it). This is probably the definitive biography of the group, although Kim "Howard" Johnson's The First 20X Years of Monty Python is a close second. 4

Fascinating Biographies on the six masters of British Humor

As a Monty Python follower, I love books like these. Although it's not full of hilarious lines, it does have great bios on all six members of the group. However, it starts with the pages completely out of order. This is apparently on purpose, but it doesn't help the book. I found it somehow easy to get into this book and read through the biographies. This book comes recommended, however, I always seem to get hold of such items right before they go out of stock. This one should still be out there. It's a treasure in my collection of Python books. 1857934415_us 1149507501000 us unread

0793804671 Living Pythons Book Jerry G. Walls November, 1998 TFH Publications http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0793804671.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0793804671.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0793804671.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $49.95 $31.47 $5.95 $17.98 1279240 Nature Pets Pythons Pythons as pets Reptiles & Amphibians Reptiles, Amphibians & Terrariums Hardcover 1 0793804671 Usually ships in 24 hours 3.0 3 2

Buy it for the pictures.

To start of, this book is filled with a huge number of great pictures and photos of pythons and their anatomy. This book is a great edition to a well built herpetology library because its mostly useful only for the pictures.The author is dry, boring and last but not least very uninformed. He doesn't use the common names for some snakes and instead uses names which could be very confusing like calling the children's python a faded python. Due to this fact the book left me dwelling in many brain farts. Also, the author of this book needs to take himself to school and enroll in some zoology classes. The way he defines "species" is ludicrus when combined with the fact that he doesnt beleive in "sub-species." Basicall Walls will go against of what all of us learned in high school and college biology classes. Walls' husbandry and breeding facts also contradict other MORE accurate literature on pythons in some instances. I'll use the childrens python again for example... Walls says that this snake is hard to breed while another more accepted source on pythons by Barelett and Wagner state the exact opposite. This is another great source of more confusion.In conclusion this is a decent book to buy if youre looking for great pictures and SOME knowledge on pythons. The author is obviously not an expert on pythons or on biology. This book would make a great python encyclopedia(with some inaccuracies) but please don't use it for buying or taking care of pythons. 4

A must-have for pythonlovers!

This book tries to describe most of the living pythons. I only miss certain subspecies. The author tells in a bright way the differences between the species. Also there is a clear way of telling general things like names of scales, scalecounting, describing the habitat and so forth. I've read the book with lots of pleasure and I 've used it several times to look after some details about PYTHONS. Jan Ramaker, Simonshaven, The Netherlands 3

too much verbal descript. Not enough husbandry details

This author does not go into detail about husbandry techniques to satisfy most herpers. He concentrates way too much on verbal description of the animals in the way of scale counts, etc. A very cursory examination of each python species and husbandry techniques. Jerry Walls doesn't even keep pythons, and the book lacks passion. It is a bit too clinical and dry for my taste. If you are interested in long verbal descriptions of the animals, which can easily be left out with a photo, then this book is for you. If you want a more personal and husbandry oriented read, then pass this one up. 0793804671_us 1149507534000 us unread

B00096SWTQ Locura como demolición: Monty Python.(Monty Python's Flying Circus, comedia de televisión) : An article from: Letras Libres Ebook Alberto Chimal 13 July, 2005 Editorial Vuelta, S.A. de C.V. http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00096SWTQ.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00096SWTQ.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00096SWTQ.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $5.95 $5.95 Digital HTML Available for download now B00096SWTQ_us 1149507423000 us unread

0582026172 Longman Reading World: A Python For a Pet: Level 6, Book 2 (Longman Reading World) Book W. Body P. Edwards 28 March, 1989 Pearson Schools http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0582026172.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0582026172.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0582026172.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg English language readers For National Curriculum Key Stage 2 Paperback 0582026172 This item is currently not available. 0582026172_us 1149507586000 us unread

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0471219754 Making Use of Python Book Rashi Gupta Rashi Gupta 15 June, 2002 Wiley http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0471219754.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0471219754.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0471219754.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $35.00 $35.00 $12.77 $12.75 1322755 Computer Books: General Computer Networks Computer Programming Languages Computers Computers - Languages / Programming Internet - General Programming - Software Development Programming Languages - General Programming Languages - Python Python (Computer program langu Python (Computer program language) Computers / Programming / Software Development Programming languages Paperback 1 0471219754 Usually ships in 1 to 3 weeks 723812219759 3.5 4 1

Not quite an expert

I am an application developer in Python, so I have high expectations of a book on that language. This treatment was incomplete (no list comprehensions!) and fragmented. Many of the chapters are full of filler instead of useable information. The examples use a poor coding style and look like the programmer was trying to code C++ or Basic. There are a lot of technical errors, too. If you are serious about learning this language you best figure out how to use the Language Reference Manual and Library Reference Manual that are available on the Python web site. Sorry to give such a negative review, but I don't appreciate having my time wasted. 2

A little bit of everything

I borrowed this book from a library and have never used it, because I have not found anything useful in it. I am an advanced software developer who just recently discovered Python. However, I cannot tell how useful this book would be to a beginner. Maybe it is of some use but there are better books than this one.I just made a few attempts to find some useful information in it and never suceeded. Either I could not find it or the stuff which I found was inaccurate and incomplete.One example: I was looking for access modes to be used when reading or writing files. I found a table containing the access modes and their descriptions. To my surprise I realized that there were different codes with nearly identical descriptions, like: r+ Opens a file for both reading and writing w+ Opens a file for both writing and reading. Nowhere in this book could I find some more detailed information and explanation of the difference.I have two other books on Python which I like very much and recommend them both:- Python Visual Quickstart Guide by Chris Fehily, for beginners - Python 2.1 Bible by D. Brueck and S.Tanner, for intermediate programmers.Do not buy this book. 5

An Eye-Opener

When I picked up this book, I didn't realize what a powerful, multipurpose language Python is. This book really opened my eyes to the many development tasks that Python can help with. And the task-oriented approach was easy to follow. An extremely worthwhile read. 0471219754_us 1149507457000 us unread

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0596002890 Mastering Regular Expressions, Second Edition Book Jeffrey Friedl 15 July, 2002 O'Reilly Media, Inc. http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0596002890.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0596002890.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0596002890.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $39.95 $25.17 $18.98 $20.50 9127 1KBPY8J21LUPH Y9Q2D5IA3423 1R36BE3AUD988 Computer Books: General Computer Programming Languages Computers Computers - Languages / Programming Electronic data processing Microcomputer Text Processing Software Perl (Computer language) Programming - General Programming Languages - CGI, Javascript, Perl, VBScript Programming languages (Electro Programming languages (Electronic computers) Text processing (Computer scie Text processing (Computer science) Word Processing - General Computers / Programming Languages / CGI, JavaScript, Perl, VBScript Internet languages Perl, .NET, Java, programming, Visual Basic, JavaScript, Python, Tcl, Ruby, VB, C#, PHP, regular expressions, regex, regexp Paperback 1 0596002890 Usually ships in 24 hours Regular expressions are a central element of UNIX utilities like egrep and programming languages such as Perl. But whether you're a UNIX user or not, you can benefit from a better understanding of regular expressions since they work with applications ranging from validating data-entry fields to manipulating information in multimegabyte text files. Mastering Regular Expressions quickly covers the basics of regular-expression syntax, then delves into the mechanics of expression-processing, common pitfalls, performance issues, and implementation-specific differences. Written in an engaging style and sprinkled with solutions to complex real-world problems, Mastering Regular Expressions offers a wealth information that you can put to immediate use. 4.5 96 3

No summary or synopsis, only good for thorough detail.

Get the small pocket reference guide instead of this book! It is difficult to find what you want if you don't know exactly what you are looking for. I admit it covers the subject very well, but if you don't know Regular Expressions thoroughly, you have to read every word of the book or look forever to find what you want. Just buy the pocket reference guide and go to the library once a year when you need this thing. 5

The regex bible

The only book to explain regular expression in a clear and exhaustive manner, covering differences between the most important programming language in which regex are used. A "must have". 5

Great Regex Book

I have known about regular expressions for a long time, but they have always been some kind of mysterious secret code. Recently I was reading something else that pointed out the power of regular expressions, so I decided it was time to learn regular expressions once and for all. After reviewing the available books on Amazon, I chose this one. I was not disappointed. After reading just the first few chapters, I have been able to put them to work and make my life a lot easier. As a software engineer, I'm always doing searches through code or search/replace operations. I am now able to do more precise searches and do search/replace operations I never dreamed were possible before. Learn regular expressions now! Get this book! 059600415X 1565922255 0596003137 1565924266 0596009658 0596002890_us 1149507457000 us unread

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0812695933 Monty Python and Philosophy : Nudge Nudge, Think Think (Popular Culture and Philosophy) Book Gary L. Hardcastle George A. Reisch 28 March, 2006 Open Court http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0812695933.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0812695933.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0812695933.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $17.95 $11.67 $10.00 $17.95 $11.61 99378 Aesthetics General Monty Python (Comedy troupe) Philosophy Popular Culture - General Philosophy / Aesthetics Paperback 1 0812695933 Usually ships in 24 hours 3.5 6 4

Thinking and Laughing, Laughing and Thinking

Continuing their great series on Popular Culture and Philosophy, the assembled contributors look towards one of the great sources of laughter - Monthy Python. Python is one of those shows/movies that can be viewed on many levels, as these authors show, disentangling philosophical lessons and examples from the work of the British comedians. Wonderfully, the chapters draw upon numerous different areas of the Phython's work for examples, from the earliest moments of their first television broadcast to their last movie together. Unlike other volumes that have looked at more limited source materials (one film for the Matrix and Philosophy, and 6 films for Star Wars and Philosophy) there is a greater spread of the work examined, showing some alternative meanings in much of the work done by the troupe. The first part of the book follows the successful formula of the series by looking at a variety of examples to reflect philosophical meaning and examples in the work of Monty Python. The second part is a new direction for the series, and delves into philosophical aspects of the Python's work, and then in the third section reverses the mirror and looks at the Pythonic aspects of philosophy or trying to show how some aspects of philosophy can be viewed in a Pythonian way. It is here that the book starts to slow down. These essays admirably look at philosophical themes and how they are reflected in Python's work, using small snippets of Python to illustrate points. These essays delve deeper into philosophical writings than those in the earlier section and are tougher to get through. Not that this is necessarily a bad thing - philosophy should make us think. Finally, the third section with Pythonian aspects of Philosophy tries to launch into areas of philosophy and show some strands to be seemingly silly and python-esque and read much more like an essay you would find in a philosophical publication, not as much a book on popular culture and philosophy. However, if you are more serious into philosophy, I believe that you may enjoy these areas. Overall the series continues to move along, and with so much of Python's work left unexamined, one can hope that there might be a second volume to continue on these philosophical themes. 5

Brilliantly conceived and wonderfully executed

This is a wonderful collection of philosophical essays relating to Monty Python. It appeals to fans of the Pythons, but also philosophers of every stripe --essays range from analytical 20th century philosophy to Buddhism and all points in between. Well done! Some of the other reviews here at Amazon, almost read like Python sketches. Totally nonsequitur! Let me add my own irrelevant comment: In addition to the terrible treatment of Richard Pryor herein, one wonders why there is almost no mention of Eskimo people in the text. Why do the authors hate the Eskimos? The book is an outrage to all decency! Etc. etc... 1

I think this book is indeed taking SERIOUS advantage of the late Richard Pryor

I am not sure but I believe the part in the book about Pryor being influenced by Monty Python was written only AFTER Pryor died late last year. I have been everywhere on Google trying to find evidence of Pryor being influenced by Python and could find none. RichardPryor.com shows no evidence of this alleged influence. I believe the writers of this book just included that in to make Python sound more influential than it really was and to appeal to african-americans more too. I believe the book's statement on Mr. Pryor to be totally false! And to the poster named Spiney. I am not kidding at all when I say I believe the book is indeed taking bad advantage of a dead celebrity in a vain attempt to appeal to african-americans. 081269595X 0812695941 0812695836 0812695895 0812695887 0812695933_us 1149507414000 us unread

6308618837 Monty Python and the Holy Grail Book Monty Python Cdbmgs 48691 31 July, 2004 BMG SPECIAL PRODUCTS http://images.amazon.com/images/P/6308618837.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/6308618837.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/6308618837.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $6.99 3120136 Audio CD 6308618837 This item is currently not available. 6308618837_us 1149507423000 us unread

1575000156 Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Monty Python's Flying Circus) Book Monty Python October, 1996 TV Books Inc http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1575000156.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1575000156.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1575000156.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $19.95 2525223 Humor Paperback 1575000156 This item is currently not available. 5.0 3 5

Only the most devoted Python Fans need apply.

I picked up my copy (rarer U.K. release) 20 years ago when it was in regular publication. It is masterfully assembled and includes many production notes in addition to the complete script. If you can find a copy, you must get it. 5

A Comic Classic, With Special Insights

There's no justice in a world where this book has gone out of print. It's been rereleased at least once, but appears to be out of print as of January, 2000. This is a must-have for serious Python fans or fans of film comedy.The book not only contains the screenplay for the film, complete with a nearly perfect (that is, nearly agreeing with the film) text, as well as the very different first draft of the text. Included are complete scenes that were cut (as in King Brian's court). There are great illustrations by Terry Gilliam as well as still photos from the set, both on camera and off. Dig around, it's worth it! 5

This book is a classic. Especially for Monty Python fans

Monty Python and the Holy Grail is a old tale supposedly taking place in the days of King Arthur and the Knights of the Roundtable. After God Himself appears to Arthur(played by Graham Chapman in the movie), and his knights, they are sent on an all-out hilarious quest for the Holy Grail(the cup Jesus drank from at the last supper) In their travels, they encouter a Three-Headed knight, Sir Lancelot's dangerous idiom, a castle full of virgins, a killer rabbit, an old man(from scene 24), and Oh the horrors! Oh the humanity! the dreaded Knights who say "Nee!"(Those who encouter them rarely live to tell the tale). This is a great and funny book for all age groups. It contains alot of British humor, but anyone will enjoy it. So, I suggest not waiting, but order this great book A.S.A.P!!! 0060817089 1575000156_us 1149507535000 us unread

1876327723 Monty Python Calendar 2000 Book Graham Chapman John Cleese te Gilliam Eric Idle Michael Palin Terry Gilliam Terry Jones 01 December, 1999 Ink Group http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1876327723.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1876327723.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1876327723.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $12.99 $6.99 3098555 Hardcover 1876327723 This item is currently not available. 1876327723_us 1149507501000 us unread

1887889000 Monty Python Complete Waste of Time C/Mac/Us Book Monty Python Cm7th 10029 July, 1996 7TH LEVEL http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1887889000.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1887889000.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1887889000.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $69.99 $6.95 490489 MEM REQ: 8m/Consumer.. Macintosh../ CD-ROM 1887889000 This item is currently not available. 5.0 3 5

a cool monty python game.

this is cool 5

Complete Waste of Time. Aptly named, but not a bad thing.

First: To the previous reviewer - wrong game.Second: To you, the dear reader - the previous reviewers information is highly accurate...about an entirely different game. Please look under "Monty Python's Meaning of Life" CD-Rom game.Third: This game, Monty Python's Complete Waste of Time, is, by now, an unsung classic. Scores of tidbits to click on and laugh about, ranging from the barest snips of sketches, to entire productions spitting at you from exploding television sets, most of which actually involve the game to some degree, which is, as has been mentioned, a Complete Waste of Time. So. If you're the sort of person who's time is really actually rather valuable, like, say, a cancer research assistant, or a libininous American President, or, perhaps, a cheese, please go back to what you're supposed to be doing right now, as this review, too, is a Complete Waste of Time. If, however, you're like me, a bored young man sitting in front of his computer at 8am with nothing to do but write long-winded reviews for rather decent games, buy this one. Why?Moral of this review: Sometimes, bad Time can be Wasted rather well. And *this* is the game with which to do it. 5

the meaning of life is awesome

i bought this game a few weeks back and it is one of the longest games monty python has ever done. the only hard part of the game is a mini game called "live organ transplants" it took me a while to get the hang of it but after a while it became easy. sadly every copy has a bug in it that refuses to get to the end of the game,but there is a way to get there. if anyone out there needs help on this game e-mail me and i will e-mail you back a walkthrough of the level or levels in question plus i will give you a code to type on the screen so you can get to the end of the game. 1887889000_us 1149507535000 us unread

B0006S0II0 Monty Python encyclopedia Book Robert Ross 01 January, 2002 Barnes & Noble http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0006S0II0.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0006S0II0.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0006S0II0.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg Biography Comedians Comedy films Great Britain Monty Python (Comedy troupe) Monty Python's Flying Circus (Television program) Unknown Binding B0006S0II0 This item is currently not available. 3.0 11 3

Not a lot of pictures

This encyclopedia is filled with information not just on Monty Python, but on the individual members as well. What I mean is, not only do we read about things like "Life of Brian" and "The Meaning of Life," but we also hear about "Silverado" and "Splitting Heirs."The book provides a chronology starting with John Cleese's birthday in 1939 to 1997. There is also a list of videos and books as well as addresses for the British and American fan clubs.The focus for the entries is on the Monty Python cast. For instance, not a lot of information is given on the movie "Silverado," but there is quite a bit of information about John Cleese's role in the movie.Unfortunately, there are not a lot of pictures in the book. Personally, I think that would be a grand addition to this work.I would recommend this for diehard fans of Monty Python. 1

Utterly Useless To Real Pythophiles!

The back cover alone,should be the biggest tip off,to this gigantic rip-off! Mr.Ross is payed to write books about British television shows. Besides Python,he has written books on The Avengers,and The Saint. ( Heaven help their fans as well! ).He doesn't have to be a fan of the show,just a flunky who collects information. It's easy enough to get a Python endorsement as well,since a book about them,obviously generates intrest in their own projects.One thing I wonder about is this: why do the authors of books about funny people,naturally assume they themselves are the comic event of the decade? ( Please,leave the comedy to the professionals.). Mr.Ross is no more a comedian,than Geoffrey Guiliano is a musician. Mr.Ross's overly long decriptions of every Python episode,are like being trapped in a pub with a drunken neo-Python fan,intent on retelling every joke to you until you laugh at it.Frankly,if you wanted a run down of cast and crew for any Python film,you could run it down on the Internet Movie Data Base.( And more than likely see the information spelled correctly as well.).Obviously all Mr.Ross had to do,was pay someone to surf for the information,and copy it down for his book.This book would benefit from being,simply,the facts. Most "encylopedias" tend to state facts,rather than personal opinions. As a Python fan,I frankly don't care if Mr.Ross laughs at the same jokes I do,or "gets" the social ramifications of certain subjects.We all laugh differently,and Python offers much to laugh about.Instead of having every film,ruined by a full out synopsis that kills every joke,why not give just a general overview? Instead of merely listing the albums,why not list the variants? ( And yes,original Python vinyl came with extras!). Instead of going over every episode with a fine tooth comb,why not give just a season intro?Mr.Ross wants too hard to be Kim Johnson,and fails. 2

How did this get such good reviews?

I found this book somewhat informative as far is just raw data is concerned but poorly written. The author seems more intent at getting his opinions across than providing information. Specifically I refer to his occasional remarks about how British comedy is far superior to anything that the United States could produce (I was actually waiting for him to refer to the States as "the colonies"). LUCKILY I received this book free for purchasing the complete set of Python videos. Had I paid money for it I would have been very disappointed.The ONLY reason I gave this two stars instead of one is because it does have good information. However reading through the author's comments are just too frustrating. At some point in the future it will provide me with kindling for a nice warm fire. I haven't touched it since my first and only reading. 0679726470 0380804794 0679726489 B0006S0II0_us 1149507458000 us unread

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0413741206 Monty Python Holy Grail Screenplay Book Graham Chapman 25 October, 2002 Methuen Publishing Ltd http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0413741206.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0413741206.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0413741206.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $14.95 $10.17 $5.99 $35.50 $6.00 263699 133DCAF05ZZ5T NNFAQCHBB8LB 3C18CMKT7JE16 Film & Video - General Film & Video - Screenwriting Performing Arts Performing Arts/Dance Pop Arts / Pop Culture Drama / General Paperback 1 0413741206 Usually ships in 24 hours 4.5 7 5

This Movie Had Me Hysterical!

Monty Python and the Holy Grail is perhaps the funniest and stupidest movie you will ever encounter. It had me on the floor laughing-no-crying, unable to breathe. The creators of Monty Python have the most odd sense of humor, and that's what I like in movies. Perhaps it's the stupidity of it all; perhaps it's just me, but I'll tell you one thing: if you have trouble breathing, DON'T WATCH THIS MOVIE! It will definitely choke you. Here is a brief summary of my favorite parts: Sir Arthur is in need of noble and worthy knights, so he rides off on his imaginary horse to find them. He finds a castle pretty soon. The first one he encounters is a masked man who has just one a battle. However, the masked knight will not let Arthur pass. So they fight. Arthur cuts off all the knights limbs, and yet the knight does not seem to notice. (One of the funniest scenes.) Once Arthur has aquired all his knights, they go in search of the Holy Grail. The first major problem they face is that the Knights of Nee block their path. To proceed, the Knights of Nee require that Arthur find-get ready for this-a shrubbery! So, Arthur returns with the shrubbery. But the Knights of Nee request that he finds-another shrubbery. And once he has found the shrubbery, he must cut down the mightiest tree in the forest with-a herring. Okay... Sir Arthur says, "I won't do it!" It just so happens that the Knights of Nee can't hear the word "it". They immediately fall to the ground, and Sir Arthur and his companions are able to proceed. There are many other hilarious scenes is this movie, such as Sir Launcelot saving someone from a castle that he believes to be a girl, but is really a boy, the head of another castle throwing dead animals down at Arthur, a ferocious rabbit biting off someone's head, and the film ending when the police smash the camera lense. If you get this movie, you are guaranteed to fall on the floor laughing. 3

For ten bucks, what the heck

Amazon has knocked five bucks off the list price of this book which just about makes it worth it. As others have noted, if you're a true MPFC fan, you've seen the movie so many times that you know the script by heart already. You also probably own a copy of the film. So why do you need this book? I dunno. There are no new photos, no commentary... If you know someone who is new to the world of MPFC, it's a safe bet that you'll lend them the video and not the screenplay. On the other hand, for the collector of all things Monty, for ten bucks, this will fill the bill. So what the heck? Go for it. 5

THE QUEST FOR MP

Methuen Publishing follows up it's The Life Of Brian screenplay (2001) with the Monty Python And The Holy Grail screenplay (2002). In addition to being an excellent reference for all MP fans, it contains 19 b&w photos from the film and is more compact then the Monty Python And The Holy Grail (BOOK). Be sure to check the 2 page cast list in the back to see who played what (and how many). A must for any MP collection. 0413741303 0679726470 0679726489 0413774104 B00005O3VC 0413741206_us 1149507457000 us unread

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0380804794 Monty Python Speaks Book David Morgan 08 June, 1999 Harper Paperbacks http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0380804794.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0380804794.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0380804794.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $13.95 $11.16 $0.02 $13.88 $0.01 41406 OVEKKR6IEAM1 30D027HMFOJDQ 1Y2UBV4E0JU3G Biography Cinema/Film: Book Comedians Comedy (Performing Arts) Entertainment & Performing Arts - General Film & Video - History & Criticism Film Criticism Great Britain Interviews Monty Python (Comedy troupe) Performing Arts Performing Arts/Dance Pop Arts / Pop Culture Popular Culture - General Television - History & Criticism Performing Arts / Comedy Paperback 1 0380804794 Usually ships in 24 hours Sensibly eschewing any attempt to emulate the inspired lunacy of Monty Python's Flying Circus, this excellent oral history offers instead a straightforward but fascinating peek behind the scenes. Extensive interviews with the team of madmen who created the legendary British television series and four feature films (except Graham Chapman, who died in 1989) give a vivid sense of the dynamic interplay of personalities that revolutionized contemporary comedy, disdaining punch lines and blackout skits in favor of something much weirder and more free-form. The writing duo of Cambridge grads Chapman and John Cleese favored confrontational, deliberately shocking pieces like the infamous Undertaker sketch ("I think we've got an eater!"). Oxford alums Terry Jones and Michael Palin took a more surreal approach to writing ("Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition"). And Eric Idle, who preferred to write alone, was the cheeky one ("nudge, nudge") as well as a respected sounding board for others' ideas. Terry Gilliam, the sole American, provided the wacky animation that gave the show its visual style. It was, as Gilliam remarks, "this amazing chemical balance... I don't think you could invent a group that would work better." All the Pythons are frank about personal and creative differences, making this a thoughtful assessment rather than a hagiography. --Wendy Smith 4.0 21 4

Monty Python Speaks

"Monty Python Speaks" is about the influential comedy sextet known as Monty Python. This book consists of intervies with the Monty Python members, excluding Graham Chapman, due to the fact that he's "bleedin' demised! He is no more! This is an ex-[Python]!" There are also interviews with Carol Cleveland, Douglas Adams, Ian McNaughton, and more, compiled similarly to "The Beatles Anthology" book. I personally enjoyed this book. I particularly liked Terry Jones' story about one particular scene in "Life of Brian." Apparently, Mr. Jones was trying to direct the crowd of Tunisian extras to laugh at Michael Palin's Pontius Pilate's speech impediment, but to no avail. He then told the translator to tell the crowd to do what the director did. Jones then fell on his back and proceeded to laugh hysterically. Fortunately, on the first take, the extras did it perfectly. Unfortunately, they couldn't use that take, for reasons forgotten by me, so they used the second, slightly sub-par, take. I reccomend this book to Monty Pyhton fans as well as random trivia buffs, of which, I fall into both categories. This has so many facts that you probably couldn't find elsewhere, except from the interviewees themselves. You can discover what happened behind the scenes of somme of the funniest TV shows and movies of the 70s and 80s. Why was the Undertaker sketch nearly cut? Where did the dead parrot come from? Who had to eat mud during the filming of "Monty Python and the Holy Grail"? Find out here. 5

Python at a Glance

While this book will not reveal anything earth-shattering to the average Python fan, it is a fun and witty look at one of the most influencial comedy teams ever. As a fan of Python fan, I really enjoyed it.The five surviving members of Python and the partner of the late Graham Chapman were interviewed on a variety of topics including the origins of Python, writing the shows, making the movies, and the disbanding of the Pythons. David Morgan also catches up with the surviving members of Monty Python at their most recent reunion in 1999. The retorts to the questions are the informative yet witty replies you would expect from these comic legends. The book gives a solid history of Monty Python in the words of the men themselves. Readers get an excellent idea of what was going on behind the scenes. Everything is discussed including the parrot sketch. 5

great book

I loved this book. It is a great buy for any python fan. It obviously doesn't have any comontary by Graham Chapman, but that was the only bad part. 0679726470 0679726489 0060758643 0812695933 0413740900 0380804794_us 1149507534000 us unread

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Life Of Brian

Well, it's a book and it has words in it and some pictures of stuff and it's er...quite good. Actually this is a very good combination of script/behind-the-scenes and the usual surreal humour of the Pythons. Plus there is a full frontal nude page, where I swear you can see everything.... 185848278X_us 1149507595000 us unread

0413774201 Monty Python'S Big Red Book Book Graham Chapman Monty Python 1984 Methuen Publishing Ltd http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0413774201.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0413774201.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0413774201.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $16.95 $16.95 $12.85 $7.89 816572 30D027HMFOJDQ 2T1CXH5C0E4KT 3K5O1N3EV08AQ Performing Arts Performing Arts/Dance Pop Arts / Pop Culture Television - History & Criticism Television - Reference Television - Screenwriting Drama / General Performing Arts / General Paperback 1 0413774201 Usually ships in 2 to 4 weeks 3.5 4 5

thin python is better than no python

It isn't huge. It's laced with themes from the tv shows. But there are opportunities unique to the form: ACCEPT ANY 3 of these great classics entirely FREE as your introduction to the THE PYTHON GUILD and you get one free tub of dung, plus monthly one dead Indian (tick if required). Need I say more? 4

red

Monty Python's Big Red Book has a lot of material from the show, which makes it a good one. This may not take you that long to read, but I think it'll be worth it. I first read this over my friend's house a few years ago, and I thought it was cool, so I got myself a copy.I'm surprised the spam song is in it with the lumberjack song. It's a nice thing to read right before you go to bed.Look, just read it yourself and see what you think. 2

Bigger rip-off than final rip-off

First of all, this book is neither big, nor red. It's quite thin actually, and is blue. There is limited new material in it, and the actual new material isn't very special. This doesn't seem like a Monty Python product at all. It was probably thrown together at the last minute. I purchased this today, finished it an hour ago, and I'm still frustrated with it. However, I purchased the "First 280 years of Monty Python" book, and really like it so far. "The Pythons" is also good, but is kind of all over the place, but "280 years" is mainly focused on the television show. So in conclusion, hesitate on this one, unless you think it will be the last Python book you'll ever buy. B0009Y8JG4 0413774201_us 1149507595000 us unread

0446971669 Monty Python's Big Red Book Book July, 1983 Warner Books Inc http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0446971669.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0446971669.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0446971669.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $6.95 $3.00 $9.99 1148300 Paperback 0446971669 This item is currently not available. 0446971669_us 1149507595000 us unread

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5550968096 Monty Python's Complete Waste of Time Book Ingram Micro January, 1995 http://images.amazon.com/images/P/5550968096.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/5550968096.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/5550968096.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $50.50 4079018 Humor Audio CD 1 5550968096 This item is currently not available. 5550968096_us 1149507535000 us unread

0761501398 Monty Python's Complete Waste of Time : An Official Compendium of Answers to Ruddy Questions Not Normally Considered Rel (Game Buster Get a Clue) Book Rusel Demaria 19 July, 1995 Prima Games http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0761501398.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0761501398.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0761501398.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $14.95 $9.69 1632432 Computer Bks - Games Entertainment & Games Humor Monty Python's complete waste of time Video & Electronic Games / Video & Electronic Paperback 1 0761501398 This item is currently not available. 086874001398 0761501398_us 1149507535000 us unread

0563558202 Monty Python's Flying Circus Book Graham Chapman 30 September, 1998 Bbc Book Pub http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0563558202.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0563558202.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0563558202.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $18.60 $11.83 $11.83 3303892 Humor Unknown Binding 0563558202 This item is currently not available. 0563558202_us 1149507534000 us unread

0563526505 Monty Python's Flying Circus Book John Cleese June, 2004 BBC Radio http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0563526505.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0563526505.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0563526505.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $14.95 $14.95 2238962 Audio - Radio General Radio - General Unabridged Audio - Misc.Nonfiction Audio Cassette 1 0563526505 Special Order 0563526505_us 1149507423000 us unread

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0413628507 Monty Python's Flying Circus Book 05 October, 1989 Methuen Publishing Ltd http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0413628507.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0413628507.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0413628507.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg 1PMM6PSTV148Y Humour Paperback 0413628507 This item is currently not available. 0413628507_us 1149507586000 us unread

0814331033 Monty Python's Flying Circus (TV Milestones) Book Marcia Landy 28 March, 2005 Wayne State University Press http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0814331033.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0814331033.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0814331033.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $14.95 $14.95 $16.15 $16.30 883581 Monty Python's flying circus ( Monty Python's flying circus (Television program) Performing Arts Performing Arts/Dance Pop Arts / Pop Culture Popular Culture - General Television - General Television - History & Criticism Paperback 1 0814331033 Usually ships in 24 hours 0814331033_us 1149507414000 us unread

3150090237 Monty Python's Flying Circus. Selected Sketches. (Lernmaterialien) Book Reinhard. Gratzke 01 December, 1995 Reclam, Ditzingen http://images.amazon.com/images/P/3150090237.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/3150090237.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/3150090237.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $25.00 $5.63 Paperback 3150090237 This item is currently not available. 3150090237_us 1149507535000 us unread

0413772802 Monty Python's Flying Circus: Just the Words Book Monty Python 01 October, 1998 Methuen Publishing Ltd http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0413772802.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0413772802.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0413772802.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $2.99 $22.25 Humour Paperback 0413772802 This item is currently not available. 0413772802_us 1149507534000 us unread

0394298756 Monty Python's Flyng Circus Book Sound Editions 27 April, 1987 Random House Audio http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0394298756.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0394298756.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0394298756.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $9.95 $9.95 Non-Classifiable Audio Cassette Audiobook 0394298756 Usually ships in 1 to 3 weeks 0394298756_us 1149507595000 us unread

0413465500 Monty Python's Life of Brian Book Monty Python February, 1991 Heinemann http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0413465500.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0413465500.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0413465500.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $14.95 $15.00 4389209 General Humor Paperback 1 0413465500 This item is currently not available. 4.5 2 5

WELEASE BWIAN !!!

Here it is MP fans, the screenplay from The Life Of Brian. Being out of print since 1979, I'm glad that Methuen Publishing has stepped up to get this screenplay back in circulation by putting it out in 2001. Illustrated with 19 b&w photos from the film, all your favorite lines from the movie are here to enjoy all over again. A solid effort by Methuen that they followed up a year later with the screenplay to Monty Python And The Holy Grail. And there was much rejoicing. Yea!!! 4

If you've seen the movie....

The format is a mass-market paperback, but this isn't a novelization but rather the screenplay as the movie was made. You'll notice that last has a subtle distinction. Oftentimes screenplays differ notably from the movies as you see them--scenes are cut because they didn't work, cost too much to do, or just because of the limits of time. The screenplays of Brazil and Monty Python and the Holy Grail are full of wonderful little tidbits that didn't make it to the screen. Unfortunately, for Life of Brian, there's only the parts that did get made, which are funny indeed, but you've already seen them. 0413741206 0413774104 0679726489 0679726470 6305388458 0413465500_us 1149507586000 us unread

B000B3N6UM Monty Python's Life of Brian (of Nazareth) Book John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin Graham Chapman Warner Brothers 1979 ACE http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000B3N6UM.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000B3N6UM.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000B3N6UM.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $4.99 $19.95 2938215 Paperback Illustrated B000B3N6UM This item is currently not available. B000B3N6UM_us 1149507595000 us unread

B00082D8QS Monty python's shameless reinsurance circus.(Alternative Risk) : An article from: Risk & Insurance Ebook Roger Crombie 31 July, 2005 Axon Group http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00082D8QS.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00082D8QS.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00082D8QS.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $5.95 $5.95 Digital HTML Available for download now B00082D8QS_us 1149507423000 us unread

1423400046 Monty Python's Spamalot Book John Du Prez 01 September, 2005 Hal Leonard Corporation http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1423400046.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1423400046.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1423400046.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $17.95 $11.67 $12.28 $17.95 $10.99 140235 Excerpts Genres & Styles - Musicals Music Music/Songbooks Musicals Songbooks - General Songbooks - Showtunes Theater - Broadway & Musical Revue Vocal scores with piano Music / Songbooks Paperback 1 1423400046 Usually ships in 24 hours 3.5 3 5

Excellent for Reminescing the Movie on the Road

I've thoroughly enjoyed listening and relistening to the songs on this CD while on the road. It's funny to hear how Broadway-ized the memorable scenes from the movie are in these songs. The only thing that came close to disappointment was not hearing the phrase "silly Enlish k-nig-ht" during the "Run Away" song. 3

Left me disappointed

I decided to take a chance with this piano/vocal/guitar collection since I had already read a review warning that it was a fairly simplistic arrangement. It is indeed very basic; someone with four years of piano experience could handle just about every piece. All that was taken from the actual score was the melody and the chords. Songs that had clear baselines, such as You Won't Succeed on Broadway's descending octaves at the end of each couplet, simply don't have them in these book. Typical left-hand arrangements are a series of eighth notes pairs with bass-root, inverted chord, over and over again no matter what sort of mood the piece should set. Given the range of tempos and their amusing descriptions, (where else would you find the term "Jaunty Madrigal"?), having identical left-hand arrangements is ridiculous. Right hand arrangements tend to double the melody with chords filling them out below. Most songs are cut down to a bare minimum, leaving out parts that could easily have been included such as accents, grace notes, and the like. Most frustrating of all is missing lyrics for subsequent verses, which is absolutely unforgiveable. "Knights of the Round Table" only has 2 verses. Yes, you can pull the lines off the internet, but why should you have to? Probably the best arrangement of the whole book is "You Won't Succeed on Broadway" which does include all the lyrics but inexplicably cut the piano solo! So when I say it's the best, that's where "best" gets a 7 out of 10. The Act II Finale does not appear, either. However, the book does include most all the other songs from the musical. Many sheet music books from musicals omit more. I am looking forward to a vocal score being offered as these are a reduction rather than an arrangement and offer all the incidental music as well as instrumental and lead-in sections. Hal Leonard often rates their arrangements on a difficulty scale but I can't find one on this book. I would give it a "2" on their 6 point scale where 6 is the hardest. 3

Could have been better

A bit dissapointing that the arrangements in the book are so bland and simple with the melody doubled in the piano and basic work added around this. With great vocal scores like 'Wicked', 'The Producers'and 'Witches of Eastwick'available with fantastic accompaniments 'Spamalot' is a tad dissapointing. However, all the great numbers from the show are here and with a talented accompanist to improve the arrangments this book is still a great buy. B0007OY2TE 1423401085 142340386X 1575608294 B000929AB4 1423400046_us 1149507414000 us unread

1423410084 Monty Python's Spamalot : 2005 Tony Award Winner for Best Musical Book John Du Prez Eric Idle 01 May, 2006 Hal Leonard Corporation http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1423410084.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1423410084.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1423410084.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $14.95 $9.72 107489 Genres & Styles - Musicals Music Music/Songbooks Songbooks - General Songbooks - Showtunes Theater - Broadway & Musical Revue Music / Songbooks Paperback 1 1423410084 Usually ships in 12 to 14 days 1423410084_us 1149507414000 us unread

0448165686 Monty Python's the Life of Brian (Of Nazareth) Book Graham Chapman Monty Python August, 1979 Putnam Pub Group (P) http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0448165686.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0448165686.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0448165686.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $9.95 $2.00 $18.50 $8.56 1189809 30D027HMFOJDQ Paperback 0448165686 This item is currently not available. 5.0 2 5

As much fun as the movie!

This is a very large paperback that includes both the full script from the movie and a scrapbook of scenes and excerpts. I laughed as hard reading the script as I did at the movie itself -- in part because I now understood what they were saying! Brian was the best Python movie -- the only one with a complete story, and fine mistreatment of Christianity. This book is a great way to remember it.IMPORTANT NOTE: Don't confuse this large-format trade paperback (isbn 0448165686, 11x14") with the small mass-market paperback (no isbn, 4x7") with the same title which contains only the script (no scrapbook). 5

Great book from the GREATEST film!

This book has great photos, illustrations, and EVEN DELETED SCENES like one where Brian is trying to pass as a preacher, and rants about various things people do wrong ... "...and join false sects..." "What? Enjoy forced sex? "This book is NOT to be missed. If you can find it that is. I have one, but it is falling apart due to mediocre binding. 0448165686_us 1149507595000 us unread

0413533808 Monty Python's the Meaning of Life Book Graham Chapman Monty Python December, 1983 Methuen http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0413533808.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0413533808.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0413533808.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $11.95 $4.00 $4.25 1893976 Film & Video - General General Humor Paperback 1 0413533808 This item is currently not available. 4.0 3 4

Pretty Good

"Meaning of Life" was the last of the Monty Python films, and it returned to the unrelated sketch format of "Monty Python's Flying Circus" and the film "And Now For Something Completely Different." While some of the sketches just didn't work and it lacks the sheer brilliance of "Holy Grail" and "Life of Brian," it is a very funny movie in its own right. This is the script book. It has plenty of colour pictures and is printed on high quality paper. It contains several scenes not in the final cut ("Adventures of Martin Luther"), and a couple of frills (bizarre intro. about fish, a hilarious correspondence between John Cleese and the editor of The Sun Newspaper.) While not containing the amount of frills that the script books of "Holy Grail" and "Brian" did, it is definitely worth owning. 5

Contains deleted scenes!

This is the companion book to Monty Python's most outrageous film. Great color photos illustrate the script, but the REAL reason to own this is that it is the only place you may ever get to read/see some sequences cut from the film. These are "The Adventures of Martin Luther," in which Jones plays a very randy Martin Luther making the Jewish parents of two young daughters (mother Chapman and father Palin) quite nervous and an extended version of the "Middle Age" sequence featuring Carol Cleveland as a waitress in the Dungeon Room waiting on Idle and Palin. The text to these scenes is what warrants the high rating - otherwise, it's simply a souvenier. 3

Meaning of What Again?

Well, the Python Fellows have done it again! They have produced a book so funny, so rue to nothing, that it could be just a figment of a madman's imagination. If they think that someone will want to buy this book, they are definetly right on, chaps! I hope everyone will buy this book, read it, and then send it to me! (Just kidding!) 0413741303 0413741206 0679726489 0679726470 B000000WG8 0413533808_us 1149507595000 us unread

0786415045 Monty Python, Shakespeare and English Renaissance Drama Book Darl Larsen February, 2003 McFarland & Company http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0786415045.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0786415045.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0786415045.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $35.00 $35.00 $60.09 $38.82 1125080 1564-1616 Criticism and interpretation Drama English Drama English drama (Comedy) English wit and humor English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Historical drama, English History History and criticism Humor Knowledge Literary Criticism Literature - Classics / Criticism Shakespeare Shakespeare, William, Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Television - History & Criticism Shakespeare, William Paperback 1 0786415045 Usually ships in 24 hours 0786415045_us 1149507457000 us unread

3453124227 Monty Python. Über den Sinn des Lebens. Book Andreas Pittler 01 June, 1997 Heyne http://images.amazon.com/images/P/3453124227.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/3453124227.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/3453124227.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg Paperback 3453124227 This item is currently not available. 3453124227_us 1149507535000 us unread

1852278250 Monty Python: A Celebration Book Richard Topping June, 1999 Virgin Publishing http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1852278250.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1852278250.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1852278250.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $25.95 $25.95 $4.60 $12.00 $12.49 2157179 Comedy Entertainment & Performing Arts - Television Personalities Monty Python (Comedy troupe) Movie/Tv Tie-Ins Performing Arts Pop Arts / Pop Culture Popular Culture - General Television - General Television - Guides & Reviews Television Plays And Programs Hardcover 1 1852278250 Special Order 2.5 3 1

Simply Scrummy?

Don't be fooled by "Simply Scrummy" a couple of reviews down. I'll bet it's the author plugging the book. Instead, listen to everything the review directly above "scrummy" has to say, and then I won't have to say it myself. 1

No good reason for this book to exist

It's hard to accept the credibility of a book that's full of either typos or outright errors. Halfway-knowledgable Python fans will spot these immediately: erstwhile Goodie Graeme Garden is repeatedly referred to as Graeme "Gardner", Neil Innes is both a member of the Bonzo Dog Band and the "Bongo" Dog Band, Terry Gilliam's opening sequence in "The Meaning of Life" is referred to as both "The Crimson Permanent Assurance" (its actual title) and "The Crimson Pearl Assurance," and the lyrics to "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life" are misquoted... those are the ones _I_ found. The only place this book fills is for Python completists who might want its handful of possibly unique photos. Python fans, either oldtimers or newbies, are advised to stay away from this patent 30th anniversary cash-in project which, stripped of the author's subjective re-hashings of the TV programs and movies, leaves very little that is new or inspired. Instead, pick up a copy of the new and stratospherically superior "Python Speaks" (read the real stories from the Pythons and their associates themselves), and find copies of George Perry's "Life of Python" (even if it is a few years old), both volumes of "All The Words", and perhaps supplement with Robert Hewison's "Monty Python : The Case Against," all cornerstones of a worthy Python history library. 5

SIMPLY SCRUMMY!!!

By far the VERY best book not to come out yet about Monty Python this year!! The wife and I both look forward to it not coming out any sooner,at all. In the best tradition of other books not yet released about Monty Python.... this is surely one of them! 1852278250_us 1149507534000 us unread

0899505597 Monty Python: A Chronological Listing of the Troupe's Creative Output, and Articles and Reviews About Them, 1969-1989 Book Douglas L. McCall September, 1991 McFarland & Company http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0899505597.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0899505597.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0899505597.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $38.50 $9.75 1088300 Biography / Autobiography Comedy (Performing Arts) Entertainment & Performing Arts - Television Personalities Monty Python (Comedy troupe) Performing Arts/Dance Specific Groups In Performing Arts Hardcover 1 0899505597 This item is currently not available. 0899505597_us 1149507586000 us unread

0851701191 Monty Python: Complete and Utter Theory of the Grotesque (BFI Film Classics (Paperback)) Book John O. Thompson November, 1982 British Film Inst http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0851701191.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0851701191.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0851701191.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $6.95 $47.99 2221561 Comedy (Performing Arts) General Grotesque Humor Motion Pictures Of Specific Genres Python (Monty) Pictures Paperback 1 0851701191 This item is currently not available. 0851701191_us 1149507595000 us unread

B0008IECQW MONTY PYTHON: LUST FOR GLORY.(British comedy group) : An article from: Cineaste Ebook David Sterritt Lucille Rhodes 28 July, 2005 Cineaste Publishers, Inc. http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0008IECQW.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0008IECQW.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0008IECQW.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $5.95 $5.95 3104287 Digital HTML Available for download now B0008IECQW_us 1149507458000 us unread

0413486605 Monty Python: The Case Against Book Robert Hewison June, 1989 Heinemann http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0413486605.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0413486605.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0413486605.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $17.95 $16.89 1297858 151FXR8G5T5OG Fiction General Humor Paperback 1 0413486605 This item is currently not available. 5.0 1 5

An important and interesting book

This book chronicles all the legal trouble of the Monty Python group, from the beginning to Life of Brian. It could be boring, but it is actually very funny. It contains a lot of material that was edited out by the Python's themselves becaues even they thought it too offensive! When you read about the aggression and legal wranglings of conservative "christians" you start wonder if Python parodied reality or if reality parodied the Python's! We can read about the attacks on Life of Brian as a blue-print for the new "crusade" against everything the evangelicals don't like. B0009GX1ZQ 0413486605_us 1149507586000 us unread

058224756X Monty Pythons Complete Waste Of Time: Mont Pyth Comp Waste Assem Box Book 10 November, 1994 Logotron http://images.amazon.com/images/P/058224756X.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/058224756X.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/058224756X.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg Unknown Binding 058224756X This item is currently not available. 058224756X_us 1149507586000 us unread

0964109840 Monty Pythons Desktop Pythonizer Book Ingram Micro January, 1995 Not Avail http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0964109840.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0964109840.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0964109840.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $32.13 $7.50 $12.44 $18.99 Software - Humor - Floppy / PC Diskette 1 0964109840 This item is currently not available. 0964109840_us 1149507586000 us unread

0938629018 Monty Pythons Flying Circus Book November, 1987 Rtv Sales Corp Audio http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0938629018.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0938629018.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0938629018.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $8.98 Audio Adult: Other Hardcover 0938629018 This item is currently not available. 0938629018_us 1149507595000 us unread

0679727019 Monty Pythons Flying Circus: The Complete Television Scripts Book Graham Chapman December, 1990 Pantheon Books http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0679727019.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0679727019.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0679727019.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $9.95 3294303 Hardcover 0679727019 This item is currently not available. 0679727019_us 1149507586000 us unread

1400906903 More Madness from Monty Python 2005 Calendar Book August, 2004 Dateworks http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1400906903.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1400906903.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1400906903.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $12.99 $12.99 $5.99 1183801 Calendar Non-Classifiable Calendar 1400906903 Usually ships in 24 hours 1400906903_us 1149507423000 us unread

B0007I7JL8 Morphology and function of the jaw apparatus in Python sebae and Python molurus Book Thomas Henry Frazzetta 01 January, 1964 University Microfilms http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0007I7JL8.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0007I7JL8.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0007I7JL8.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg Biodae Pythons Snakes Unknown Binding B0007I7JL8 This item is currently not available. B0007I7JL8_us 1149507595000 us unread

0195147375 Music in Central Java: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture Book Benjamin Brinner 30 June, 2006 Oxford University Press http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0195147375.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0195147375.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0195147375.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $17.95 $17.95 1017956 Genres & Styles - Folk & Traditional Music Folk music Indonesia World music Paperback 1 0195147375 Not yet released. 0195147375_us 1149507666000 us unread

0596001452 MySQL Cookbook Book Paul DuBois November, 2002 O'Reilly Media, Inc. http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0596001452.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0596001452.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0596001452.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $49.95 $31.47 $29.65 $29.66 41040 2S9F6U8J3PA08 1SF0MQN4NKZYX 38JJY0Q0R7QWR Computer Books: General Computers Computers - Data Base Management Database Management - General MySQL (Electronic resource) Programming - General Programming Languages - SQL SQL (Computer program language SQL (Computer program language) Computers / Database Management / General Database software SQL mysql, php, perl, python, java, tomcat, cookbook, database, macintosh, unix, linux, apache, client programming, strings, record selection, query, table, metadata, sequence, transaction Paperback 1 0596001452 Usually ships in 24 hours 636920001454 Good programming--which is to say, programming that yields both efficient code and a profitable life for the programmer--depends on not reinventing the wheel. If someone else has solved the problem you're facing (and someone almost always has), you'd be foolish to waste your energy figuring out your own solution. MySQL Cookbook presents solutions to scores of problems related to the MySQL database server. Readers stand a good chance of finding a ready-made solution to problems such as querying databases, validating and formatting data, importing and exporting values, and using advanced features like session tracking and transactions. Paul DuBois has done a great job assembling efficient solutions to common database programming problems, and teaches his readers a lot about MySQL and its attendant APIs in the process.DuBois organizes his cookbook's recipes into sections on the problem, the solution stated simply, and the solution implemented in code and discussed. The implementation and discussion sections are the most valuable, as they contain the command sequences, code listings, and design explanations that can be transferred to outside projects. The main gripe readers will have about MySQL Cookbook is that the author, in his effort to cover the range of MySQL-friendly programming languages, uses different languages in his solutions to various problems. You'll see a Perl solution to one programming challenge (Perl, in fact, is the most frequently used language, followed by PHP), a Python fix for the next, and a Java sample after that. Readers have to hope that they find a solution in the language they're working with, or that they're able to transliterate the one DuBois has provided. It's usually not a big problem. --David Wall Topics covered: How to make MySQL databases do your bidding--in terms of queries, table manipulation, data formatting, transactions, and Web interfaces--through the database server's command line interfaces and (more importantly) through the MySQL APIs of Perl, PHP, Java, and Python. Particularly excellent coverage deals with formatting dates and times, management of null values, string manipulation, and import/export techniques. 4.5 11 4

MySQL For Applications Server

Excellent text well written and logical sequencing of chapters. Very good for students in their second or third semester of RDBMS studies. I do not recomend for beginning relational databse students. 5

Solves a lot of problems! (That's how it's organized)

I had a recent perl+mysql project and flipped between the Cookbook and the author's other work, MySQL, mentioned in other reviews. ( also referred to the O'Reilly Perl books _Programming Perl_ and _Perl for System Administration_. I don't usually have time to master any topic or skillset; I need to get in, get it going, and move on. This book is perfect for that. "How do I get the date?" There's a recipe for that. "How do I get perl to connect to the database and insert stuff?" There's a recipe. Also for PHP, python, etc. It's really focused on problem solving, and the problems are really well chosen. This book will save you hours of effort. 5

Lucky Me!

I am a big fan of hands-on books. I especially like the `From Scratch` and `Cookbook` type titles. Well, lucky me. When I attended the 2005 MySQL Users Conference in Santa Clara CA in April '05, I received the "MySQL Cookbook" by Paul DuBois as a reward for early registration. The day after I returned back to work from the conference, one of my co-workers came looking for some guidance in regards to a MySQL database issue he was having. His description sounded familiar to one of the recipes I skimmed in the cookbook. Sure enough, I found the resolution within two minutes, and had sent another satisfied customer on his way. The great aspect of this book is that it is written to provide solutions to over 315 real-world problems. Whenever I come up against an obstacle in regards to MySQL, I head straight to the table of contents and scan for a recipe that looks like it might be a match. One topic I wish was covered somewhere in this text is the concept of derived tables, which are basically sub-queries used as tables in a join. (...) The "MySQL Cookbook" and "MySQL in a Nutshell" books are permanent fixtures in my office ... except for when my co-workers borrow them. -Brett Berry PERL/PHP/JavaScript/MySQL (...) 1565926811 0672326736 0596003064 1590595351 0596005431 0596001452_us 1149507457000 us unread

0596007892 MySQL in a Nutshell (In a Nutshell) Book Russell Dyer 03 May, 2005 O'Reilly Media, Inc. http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0596007892.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0596007892.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0596007892.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $39.95 $25.17 $7.95 $22.09 152532 Computer Bks - Data Base Management Computer Books: Database Computers Computers - Data Base Management Database Management - General Database Management - SQL Server MySQL (Electronic resource) Programming Languages - General Programming Languages - SQL SQL (Computer program language) Sql (Programming Language) Computers / Database Management / General mysql, php, perl, python, java, apache, client programming, strings, record selection, query, table, metadata, sequence, transaction Paperback 1 0596007892 Usually ships in 24 hours 4.5 3 5

MySQL and how to use it effectively!

The book is "A Desktop Quick Reference" just as billed on the cover. It is explicitly MySQL-centric and doesn't stray from that core message. It is extremely up-to-date considering the rapidity of movement in MySQL development progress. I feel that its author, Russell Dyer is the kind of person who is easy to talk to and immediately be comfortable with based on his style and presentation in this book. The content of this book is very well organized in keeping with the finest traditions at O'Reilly & Associates. There is an installation guide, tutorial, SQL syntax reference, MySQL built-in functions section(s), command-line utilities reference and programming languages API references for PERL, PHP and C. These API references demonstrate commonplace MySQL usage through clear, easy-to-read examples that make good sense. It is a very comprehensive text that reads as easily as a favorite novel yet is concise enough to be your first "go-to" on MySQL issues you may face day-in and day-out. It is truly the "most advanced kingfisher" (cover animal) on the topic and, like the Pied kingfisher, it is lightweight and demonstrates keenly honed survival skills. I use MySQL daily and I find it very useful and enjoyable. I don't want to become an SQL guru or even a DBA, as a programmer, I enjoy having MySQL In A Nutshell close at hand so that I can focus on writing code. Thank you Mr. Dyer (and the folks at O'Reilly) for a job well-done! I heartily recommend it to everyone using MySQL. The convenience of this publication clearly outweighs its cost. Newcomers and RDBMS "old-timers" will appreciate this book equally. 4

Another Solid Nutshell Book

Ah, "Nutshell" books - you gotta love `em. Or maybe you don't. I won't get into the pros and cons of online documentation versus books because this subject has been rehashed ad infinitum. Truth is, there are pros and cons for both, and we each have our own reasons for our own preferences. That being said, if you like book documentation - and "Nutshell" books in particular - then you will like this book. I happen to think it is a good idea to tear yourself away from the keyboard/screen every once in awhile, and the "Nutshell" books give you a good reason for doing so. I'm not a SQL expert, so I liked the tutorial-flavored introductions at the beginning of each chapter, followed by the conversational tone of the clear and concise examples. I did not have this book when I first started programming using MySQL, and that's too bad because it could have saved me a lot of wasted time with its explanations of some of the more nefarious "gotchas" of the language. I have but one criticism and one suggestion: Criticism: The following APIs are covered at the end of the book: Perl, PHP, and C. I can see leaving out COBOL and Lisp (if there are even APIs for these languages), but Java? Granted, the Java interface to MySQL is well-documented in many places, but if you are discussing the *major* programming language APIs to MySQL then you should do just that. Suggestion: The beginning of the book provides an introduction to MySQL via command-line instructions. I can see doing this, even though no one interacts with databases through the command line. What I think would be even more useful would be a brief discussion of the two tools that everyone does use: MySQL Administrator and MySQL Query Browser. A couple of chapters (along with some screen shots) of what they are, why we need them, where to get them, and how to use them would really make this book perfect. (If you don't forget that Java API chapter!) 4

you need a background in SQL

Well the book certainly seems to cover MySQL's features quite comprehensively. But, as it is a reference manual, it does not attempt to teach you MySQL or the theory of relational databases. For a given MySQL command, the book's explanation is succinct and useful. Provided you already have a background in the area. Much of the book's discussion is probably already available in equivalent form in the online help. But hardcopy is nice to have. Going through the functions, what you might appreciate about MySQL is that many of these are generic SQL functions. If you come from any other SQL implementation, your background will be relevant to much of the book. 0596100671 0596001452 0596003064 0596005431 0596007736 0596007892_us 1149507414000 us unread

059600446X MySQL Pocket Reference Book George Reese 01 February, 2003 O'Reilly Media, Inc. http://images.amazon.com/images/P/059600446X.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/059600446X.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/059600446X.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $9.95 $9.95 $5.98 $4.50 57790 LDOHFOOXZZWJ 2S9F6U8J3PA08 T2GMJN4VGH68 Computer Books: General Computer Books: Operating Systems Computers Computers - Operating Systems Database management MySQL (Electronic resource) Operating Systems - Linux Operating Systems - UNIX Programming - General Relational databases SQL (Computer language) SQL (Computer program language SQL (Computer program language) Computers / Database Management / General Database software mysql, php, perl, python, java, tomcat, database, macintosh, unix, linux, apache, client programming, strings, record selection, query, table, metadata, sequence, transaction Paperback 1 059600446X Usually ships in 24 hours 636920004462 5.0 3 5

small and excellent

Very practical and after every command there is a very useful example. 5

Excellent, quick reference

This is an excellent reference to the MySQL language. It is faster to use than the online MySQL documentation, and can go anywyere. This is a better reference to MySQL than the O'Reilly book 'SQL in a Nutshell' (first edition), which left out many key MySQL commands and clauses. The only downside to this book is that it does not include a list of reserved words for MySQL. Other than that, it's a great reference. 5

Good Reference

I'm always looking for a good MySQL reference. I find myself looking for the syntax of a particular command. This book comes in handy when looking for a particular MySQL command. For the size of this book, is really packs a ton of information. 0596004028 0596007779 0596002963 059600415X 0596004117 059600446X_us 1149507457000 us unread

0435911996 Napolo and the Python (African Writers Series) Book Steve Chimombo 01 January, 1994 Heinemann http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0435911996.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0435911996.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0435911996.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $15.95 $15.95 $2.46 $2.61 2759863 English Contemporary Poetry Fiction - General General Poetry Paperback 1 0435911996 Usually ships in 1 to 3 weeks 0435911996_us 1149507586000 us unread

B00093KZPI Napolo and the Python: Selected Poetry. : An article from: World Literature Today Ebook Tanure Ojaide 28 July, 2005 University of Oklahoma http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00093KZPI.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00093KZPI.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00093KZPI.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $5.95 $5.95 Digital HTML Available for download now B00093KZPI_us 1149507535000 us unread

0132395525 NetBeans(TM) IDE Field Guide : Developing Desktop, Web, Enterprise, and Mobile Applications (2nd Edition) Book Patrick Keegan Ludovic Champenois Gregory Crawley Charlie Hunt Christopher Webster 09 May, 2006 Prentice Hall PTR http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0132395525.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0132395525.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0132395525.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $49.99 $31.49 $31.44 $49.99 $31.44 99000 Computer Books: Languages Computer programming Computers Computers - Languages / Programming Java (Computer program language) Programming Languages - Java Computers / Programming Languages / Java Paperback 1 0132395525 Usually ships in 24 hours 4.0 7 2

Already out of date with Netbeans

Only an OK book. Minor improvements covering J2ME tools and Matisse. Needed a lot more coverage of the Netbeans Plug-ins and RCP usage. Not a lot of good code examples and some examples difficult to understand. Also Netbeans 5.5 is in beta and soon to be released. This book only covers 5.0 so in my mind is already out of date. 4

Need a little more..

The books is useful and would help many people (including myself). If was an author, I would have added detail chapters on Java Beans, Applets, testing of RMI. I like the chapter on J2ME! 1

Don't get the book!!!

The book only help you to go around the funtions of the NetBean. Very Poor!!! Very Poor of examples and hard to understand if you want to compiles other coding packages. Over all the book is good if you don't have a clue about the program. It best just download the user manual in the NetBean.org (free) which it help more than the book. 0596002807 0596009070 0596009208 0596007736 0596007124 0132395525_us 1149507666000 us unread

0590764365 Never Keep a Python as a Pet (Picture Hippo) Book Scoular Anderson 31 December, 1991 Scholastic Ltd http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0590764365.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0590764365.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0590764365.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $106.69 Fiction Picture books Paperback 0590764365 This item is currently not available. 0590764365_us 1149507586000 us unread

0977616665 No Fluff, Just Stuff Anthology : The 2006 Edition Book Compiled by Ford 01 June, 2006 Pragmatic Bookshelf http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0977616665.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0977616665.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0977616665.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $29.95 453547 Computer Books: Languages Computers Computers - Languages / Programming Programming - Software Development Computers / Programming / Software Development Java, Ruby, Ajax, client, server, web, security, database, develpoment, methodology, future, api Paperback 1 0977616665 This item is currently not available. 097669400X 0977616665_us 1149507666000 us unread

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0521852870 Numerical Methods in Engineering with Python Book Jaan Kiusalaas 25 July, 2005 Cambridge University Press http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0521852870.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0521852870.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0521852870.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $85.00 $78.63 $76.06 $65.00 552508 Business Mathematics Data processing Engineering - General Engineering mathematics Numerical analysis Python (Computer program language) Science/Mathematics Technology Technology & Industrial Arts Business & Economics / Business Mathematics Computer modelling & simulation Engineering: general Hardcover 1 0521852870 Usually ships in 24 hours 4.0 1 4

Undergrad Numerical Method Textbook

The content is typical of an undergraduate course in numerical methods. The author employs Python for that. It doesn't tell you how to use various modules available on the net. Instead, the author sticks to the standard few and explains numerical methods from the very basics. The book is very good for an introduction coursework. However, if you are a researcher looking for tools for serious numerical computation and thinking of using Python as an efficient and convenient organizer(or "glue") rather than a number cruncher, you might as well consult the book by H.P. Langtangen. This book is also useful if you want to get a hang on how a textbook numerical method would work on Python. You can then use the language for a quick algorithm prototyping in your own work. 3540435085 0764596543 159059519X 1887902996 1590593715 0521852870_us 1149507414000 us unread

0932633633 Object Oriented Computation in C++ And Java Book Conrad Weisert 30 September, 2006 Dorset House Publishing Company, Incorporated http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0932633633.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0932633633.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0932633633.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $33.95 $33.95 C++ (Computer program language) Computer Books: Languages Computers Computers - Languages / Programming Java (Computer program language) Object-oriented programming (Computer science) Programming - Object Oriented Programming Programming - Software Development Paperback 1 0932633633 Not yet released. 0932633633_us 1149507609000 us unread

013197629X Objects First With Java : A Practical Introduction Using BlueJ (3rd Edition) Book David J. Barnes Michael Kolling 31 May, 2006 Prentice Hall http://images.amazon.com/images/P/013197629X.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/013197629X.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/013197629X.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $80.40 $72.64 96906 Computer Books: Languages Computer science Computers Computers - Languages / Programming Java (Computer program language) Object-oriented programming (Computer science) Programming Languages - Java Study and teaching Computers / Programming Languages / Java Paperback 1 013197629X This item is currently not available. 4.5 19 5

I am not an idiot

I am a beginner at JAVA and I have tried other books and spent a lot of time making poor progress as they try to talk down to you. I am not an idiot and appreciate the fact that this book is by a real life teacher who is aware of the failings of beginners and helps to put these right. Combine this with an online discussion group for problems and you have an excellent learning environment 5

The Holy Grail for Beginners learning Java 5++

Had my first taste of BlueJ as a college student at Bell College Hamilton, my Java skills have increased tremendously mainly due to the principles and concepts learned from BlueJ. This book stands miles above all Beginner java book's on the market today. The book comes with its own IDE "BlueJ". The book focuses early on Classes, Objects and clearly explains the concepts with little regard to code. The book then invites the reader to open up example projects with the BlueJ IDE and gets the user to create objects from the classes then examine the methods, again paying little attention to coding (There is plenty of coding and exercises in this book, but kept to minimum at this stage as it's vital to understand the concepts related with classes and objects and methods). This then enables the user to better visualize abstract concepts and object behavior. The book uses an iterative approach and user finds that principles taught in the book are used throughout the book. The book teaches you to code practical programs such as a Database to contain CD and Video objects; most importantly it stimulates your mind and imagination. This enables the user to find other ways to apply the concepts to other problems. The book gets you to into the habit of thinking of items as objects. Plain and simple BlueJ gives you the right amount of Java knowledge without going into unnecessary details and allows the user to see the big picture and enable them to successfully start understanding more advanced Java material. When I got to university the Students who used BlueJ at college were miles ahead in understanding Java language than those who had not. Most students who did not use BlueJ before university had a habit of writing procedural style programs with the Java language. Recommended ! 4

A good book, especially when combined with BlueJ

The book seems to be written for a "new breed" of students in times of Mass-Education, that is: students who want to learn programming vocationally rather than scientifically; students who want to apply programming to "real-world" jobs rather than to study a programming language for the sake of its own beauty. The authors of "Objects First" are trying to make their book "interesting" for this new kind of student by adding a lot of application "projects" such as: little games, cinema ticket booking systems etc. This might feel somewhat strange (or even odd) to those people who come from a classical scientific-academic background where concepts were mainly studied for their own sake, but I think it is right that this new kind of vocational students are provided with a good book that suits their practical needs. Indeed, the "Objects First" approach is good, and it is only a very logical consequence of the "Problem Oriented" approach according to which progressive professors were confronting beginner students with Functional programming languages like Scheme or Miranda (instead of procedural Pascal or C) since the mid-1980s. What I appreciate most at "Objects First" is: this book comes with a CD that contains the really VERY useful BlueJ software development environment! The text and style of the book itself is, in my opinion, rather tiring and tedious, too packed and cluttered with "projects", too repetitive, too self-interrupting with all sorts of "windows" and "boxes" etc. The same contents could have been presented in a much leaner, much more concise and much less repetitive fashion. (At this point I seem to disagree with the book authors' opinion on how teaching should be actually done.) Also the book's language is, in my opinion, somewhat too coloquial and not "academic" enough (for example: too often they use the sloppy un-word "thing" instead of finding a more rigorous way of expressing what they want to say). On the other hand I must acknowledge that the "spoon-feeding" approach of this book (which I personally find somewhat too patronizing at times) really allows me to do my own teaching in the way I want to do it -usually I start with the concept of Class (thereby explicitly referring to classical Aristotelian Philosophy) before introducing the concept of Objects systematically as a generalisation of Data Structures (like, e.g., "Stack") which are wellknown since ever- and then I can leave the students alone to study this book on their own, in addition to what I have presented in my lecture. Indeed I must say that most of my students have bought or borrowed this book, and they seem to use it quite happily. As long as they are happy, I have no reason to complain, and this is exactly what the autors have predicted in their preface: students seem to like the book more than their teachers do. Another important aspect of this book is rarely mentioned by other reviews which I have read so far, namely the teaching of programming from a Software Engineering perspective, with a strong focus on software structure, software clarity, and semi-automated software testing. This is a very important aspect of programming, unfortunately often forgotten by other programming books (though, of course, a book on programming can never fully replace a book on software engineering). In fact I am using the BlueJ book's chapters on Testing (supported and semi-automated by BlueJ's "JUnit" test concept) and Design also in Software Engineering classes where the focus of the lecture is clearly NOT programming. I stronlgly support the book's idea of teaching programming from a Software Engineering perspective (rather than from the machine perspective), though on the other hand I can see that the mingling of Programming Concepts and Software Engineering Concepts can be somewhat challenging (if not overwhelming) for some of the slower and weaker students. [By the way: sorry for my clumsy English, it's not my mother language.] 0596009208 0965485358 1590594576 0596007124 0131872893 013197629X_us 1149507666000 us unread

047176907X Operating System Concepts 7th Edition with Java 7th Edition Book Abraham Silberschatz Peter Baer Galvin Greg Gagne 05 December, 2006 John Wiley & Sons http://images.amazon.com/images/P/047176907X.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/047176907X.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/047176907X.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $86.95 $86.95 Computer Books: Languages Computers Programming - General Computers / Operating Systems / General Operating systems & graphical user interfaces (GUIs) Hardcover 047176907X Not yet released. 047176907X_us 1149507609000 us unread

1555583296 Oracle Database Programming Using Java and Web Services Book Kuassi Mensah 19 August, 2005 Digital Press http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1555583296.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1555583296.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1555583296.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $59.95 $59.95 460017 Computer Books: Languages Computers Computers - Data Base Management Database Management - Oracle Programming Languages - Java Computers / Database Management / General Paperback 1 1555583296 Usually ships in 11 to 13 days 1590595300 0072230533 0072257687 0072231459 0596005873 1555583296_us 1149507619000 us unread

0130284181 Perl How to Program, Introducing CGI and Python (With CD-ROM) Book H. M. Deitel P. J. Deitel T.R. Nieto D.C. McPhie 25 January, 2001 Prentice Hall http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0130284181.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0130284181.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0130284181.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $95.00 $95.00 $24.28 $58.99 287976 3FVHIY4J1UW6X 1H37MQCGVWSJH JA5Y30V8VHS0 Computer Books: Languages Computer Networks Computer Programming Languages Computers Computers - Languages / Programming Internet - Web Site Design Internet programming Perl (Computer program languag Perl (Computer program language) Programming Languages - CGI, Javascript, Perl, VBScript Computers / Programming Languages / CGI, JavaScript, Perl, VBScript Paperback 1 0130284181 Usually ships in 24 hours 076092010296 4.0 31 2

This book was not written by Perl programmers

A Perl novice picking this book up will be impressed. It's big, the prose is good, and it seems to have a command of the subject. This is all misleading. The book was written by professional authors who pick up a language as they write a book. Perl isn't like other langauges - the mindset and featureset are completely different. Writing effective Perl means getting a grasp on ideas taken from awk, sed, Lisp, C++, sh, and a dozen other places. This book teaches Perl as if it were another C dielect with a funny syntax. This certainly makes it easy to "leaern Perl", but after reading over 800 pages, you'll actually learn very little Perl. And no wonder - large amounts of this book were cut and paste verbatum from other books Dietel wrote about C++ and Visual Basic! Nothing unique to Perl is discussed, such as Perl's excellent date manipulation fascilities, object serialization, or indeed any module beyond the CGI module (on which a thousand books have been written). Descriptions of features are vague and half hearted showing lack of a clear understanding. To someone who knows Perl, this book sounds like a homework assignment where someone read about Perl and then wrote about their findings, uncertainties and all. Throughout the book, code listings basically work (I worked hard on that as a paid technical reviewer - my name is in the credits - and this was no small task) but they too completely miss the style, spirit, and indeed the point of programming Perl. They're riddled with security holes. They don't leverage modules, and Perl's CPAN repository is probably it's greatest strength. I don't like writing bad reviews. I don't like having failed to have persuaded the authors to address security. I wanted to like this book since it was the first I've worked on. With lots of help from people who truly grasp Perl this book could have been medicore but Dietel's production-line like business model doesn't allow for this. Books need to be written by experts or at least senior members of the community. Rank novices cannot just read other books and repeat back their findings and call it a book. Or perhaps you honestly believe that Dietel has mastered every language on the sun and had plenty of time left over to write an 800 page book about the language they learned last month. As with any bad review, you should be asking what motivated the bad review. Often it's a frustrated novice. Sometimes it's pure snobbery. Other times it's religion or a burnt employee. I'm not a Perl novice; I've been programming for 21 years now and I've been programming in Perl quite heavily for about 6 of those. I'm a bit of a Perl snob but only because there are so many really excellent books like Programming Perl, Learning Perl, Beginning Perl, CGI Programming with Perl, and scores of others. Dietel treated me very well and paid me fairly (again, I wish I could give an average review). I'm just writing this review to temper the initial impressions of those first learning Perl with a slightly more educated assessment. If you want one massive book with loads and loads of Perl knowledge, Computer Science & Perl Programming was collectively written by about 20 of the best known Perl hackers who have developed the most important modules, worked on the core, and spoke and written more often than anyone else. And while CS&PP has nearly the same page count, it costs half as much. Besides being more thorough, more insightful, more interesting, and in better style, it's a heck of a lot of fun. In short, Perl: How to Program is just another in-it-for-the-money amaturely written Perl+CGI book with a lot of padding and little insight. 3

Poor CD installation ...dies in the middle

I have only read the first chapter. Looks okay. However, I bought it with CD rom at original price (not from amazon) and I have such a hard time installing it. The Damn thing doesn't install on either of my win2k machines nor on Red hat 9 which I dual boot with one of my win2k.I am really frustrated. 1

I'm falling asleep

Because of my school, I own 4 of these hideous beasts. While the books contain a rich assortment of information on their particular subjects, they can be verbose in the extreme. Additionally, they seem to be poorly organized as some other reviewers have mentioned. It is very difficult to pick up these books and stay interested for more than 5 minutes. I've had to purchase other books to actually learn the languages and utilize the Deitel books as references. Some people may find these books to be fine; I suspect we all learn differently. If you enjoy books that get right to the point and with better organization, look elsewhere. 0130284173 0130923613 0131450913 0596003137 0596002890 0130284181_us 1149507501000 us unread

0201734885 Perl to Python Migration Book Martin C. Brown 02 November, 2001 Addison-Wesley Professional http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0201734885.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0201734885.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0201734885.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $44.99 $1.98 $32.31 563609 Computer Books: Languages Computer Networks Computer Programming Languages Computers Computers - Languages / Programming Internet - General Programming - General Programming - Object Oriented Programming Programming Languages - CGI, Javascript, Perl, VBScript Programming Languages - General Paperback 1 0201734885 This item is currently not available. 785342734881 3.0 3 2

Was this book even proofread?

This book is a reasonable cross-reference, but it can't be trusted at all, for the simple fact that it has so many typos, spelling mistakes, and code samples with errors in that it's a dangerous book to give to a python learner. Bad show. 3

Useful book, despite its errors?

If you happen to be a Perl Hacker who wants to get into Python, this book is just what you're looking for. It's written from the perspective of a Perl programmer who has made the switch to Python. It introduces Python while explaining the relevant differences to Perl as it goes. There are also lots of code snippets showing Perl code along with its Python equivalents. This book does have some problems however. It has more typos in it than any other programming book I've ever read. That applies to both the text itself as well as some of the code samples. There are also some places in which it explains things assuming knowledge of something else that isn't described until further on in.That said, I still found the book useful, and for me it was probably worth the purchase price. I would just recommend that readers be very wary of the typos as you go along. 4

Very good language cross reference

I'm an avid Perl programmer who's wanted to do more with Python, but never seem to have the time to actually _do_ something in Python because I run out of time and end up doing it in Perl. This book has helped me get over that hurdle by providing a useful cross reference, so if you want to do X in Perl (with a perl code example that looks very typical), do Y in Python (with a plausible code fragment). I would have rated this book 5 stars, as it very clearly achieves its stated goal. Unfortunately it is absolutely riddled with minor typo's. Perhaps that will be fixed in a future edition, but for now it makes life a bit more difficult since you have to pay very close attention to what is in the book vs. what you might already know and correct the book where it is wrong. 0201734885_us 1149507458000 us unread

0613976584 Pete the Python: The Further Adventures of Mark and Deke Book Jim Dunlap April, 1997 Rebound by Sagebrush http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0613976584.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0613976584.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0613976584.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $17.60 Animals - Reptiles & Amphibians Children's 9-12 - Fiction - General Juvenile Fiction Hardcover 1 0613976584 This item is currently not available. 0613976584_us 1149507535000 us unread

0773758275 Pig and the Python How to Prosper From The Book David Cork Susan Lightstone January, 2002 Stoddart+publishing http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0773758275.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0773758275.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0773758275.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $16.95 $0.01 $0.01 691904 3TO070EJWO0XR Business / Economics / Finance General Paperback 1 0773758275 This item is currently not available. 4.5 9 5

Entertaining and Informative

Very entertaining book to read. Written in the Creative Nonfiction style like The Richest Man in Babylon and The Wealthy Barber. Story uses a fictional Baby Boomer family who are educated about the Baby Boomer generation and financial planning by two professors who study the Baby Boomers. The financial planning education does hit most of the basic points of financial planning (Use automatic savings methods to save at least 10% of income, invest in the stock market, and use asset allocation strategies). As an Index Fund fan, I would have liked to have seen a plug about the advantages of Index Funds over actively managed funds. The author's prediction, made sometime before the 1998 book publication date, that real estate prices would drop significantly, has not proven correct. Fueled by relatively low home mortgage interest rates, real estate has boomed in most of the U.S. between 1998 and 2005. It will be interesting to see if U.S. real estate home values stagnate or decline between 2005 and 2020. As a U.S. stock market investor, it was great to see the author's prediction the stock market will do well until 2020-2025. After 2020, the author predicts the U.S. stock market will stagnate for 20 years as the Boomers shift from stocks to bonds to lower risk and spend their assets in their retirement. Although it was soothing to hear the stock market won't crash in 2020, I'm not convinced we are smart enough to know how it will really play out 15 years from now. The author's prediction of U.S. interest rates staying low over the next 20 years seems to be coming true so far. As Baby Boomers reach middle age, they start saving for retirement. Some of their savings will go into fixed rate investments, driving down the returns. Traditional asset allocation has called for some percentage of the portfolio to be invested in bonds. If interest rates (or bond yields) are going to stay inordinately low the next 20 years compared to historical bond yields, then maybe bonds should be replaced by blue chip stocks paying good dividends. Food for thought. It would also have been nice to see more predictions of what areas and companies will boom as the Baby Boomers age. The real trick is to identify companies that will benefit from the aging boomers before other investors identify them so they can be purchased at a relatively low price. All in all, a very informative and entertaining book. I'm not convinced that demographics alone cause every change in U.S. society, but it is one major factor. I would suggest companion books to supplement this book including The Richest Man in Babylon, Bogle on Mutual Funds, The Millionaire Next Door, The 4 Pillars of Investing, A Random Walk Down Wall Street, Wealth of Experience: Real Investors on what Works and What Doesn't, Index Mutual Funds: How to Simplify Your Life and Beat the Pros, The Coffeehouse Investor, and the Armchair Millionaire. 5

How To Prosper From The Aging Baby Boom

"The Pig and the Python" is an easy to read, easy to grasp book about a topic that has trouble maintaining its readers attention. If you know best selling "The Wealthy Barber" by David Chilton, this book goes through the same format. This book will make look to the future and the opportunities that it possesses. If you are interested in investing, worried about retirement, this book is just for you. And this is also a good reading for financial consultants. It find out how to prosper from the aging baby boom. Recommend! 5

AN AWESOME FIANCIAL/ECONOMICS BOOK FOR THE AVERAGE PERSON

THIS BOOK IS EASY TO READ AND COMPREHEND, AND IT IS VERY INFORMATIVE. IT WAS GREAT. 055334806X 1585420433 0773758275_us 1149507458000 us unread

9700305279 Pitones Y Boas /Serpientes Venenosas/Pythons and Boas/Poisonous Snakes (Biblioteca De La Fauna Asombrosa, Tomo 2) Book Lionel Bender Colin McCarthy December, 1994 Fernandez USA Pub Co http://images.amazon.com/images/P/9700305279.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/9700305279.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/9700305279.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $18.50 4127798 Boa (Genus) Boidae Juvenile literature Pythons Spanish: Grades 4-7 Hardcover 9700305279 This item is currently not available. 9700305279_us 1149507586000 us unread

0732720419 Pity the Python (Literacy Tree: Surprise and Discovery) Book Sydine Kleinhenz January, 1997 Rigby http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0732720419.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0732720419.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0732720419.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg Paperback 1 0732720419 This item is currently not available. 0732720419_us 1149507535000 us unread

073272208X Pity the Python: Surprise and Discovery (Literacy Links Plus Phonic Fold-outs Fluent) Book 01 January, 2001 Shortland Publications http://images.amazon.com/images/P/073272208X.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/073272208X.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/073272208X.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg English language readers Paperback 073272208X This item is currently not available. 073272208X_us 1149507501000 us unread

B000FKIU70 Playboy Magazine / November 1979 - Phyllis Mccreary, Sylvie Garant, Monty Python, Masters & Johnson Book Playboy Magazine 1979 Playboy http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000FKIU70.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000FKIU70.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000FKIU70.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $5.18 Paperback B000FKIU70 This item is currently not available. B000FKIU70_us 1149507595000 us unread

0976553406 Plone Live Book Michel Pelletier Munwar Shariff 2005 Sourcebeat http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0976553406.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0976553406.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0976553406.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $44.95 262885 Paperback 0976553406 This item is currently not available. 5.0 5 5

A must-have book for Plone users

After suveying the open-source content management systems available, I chose Plone for its capability and strong peer support. I bought all of the five-star books for Plone and Zope developement and learned a lot from them. But Plone Live really opened my eyes. It goes beyond other books in important areas and fills in details not covered by the others. Are you interested in using LDAP to keep your user logons? It is very well described in Plone Live with step-by-step instructions. Do you want to know what Archetypes are and how they are used in Plone? This is your book. The icing on the cake is the "live" part of Plone Live. The idea of a constantly-evolving book is brilliant. How often have I bought a book that covered "version 2.3" of a product only to have it obsoleted by "version 3.0" a month or two later? The subscription to Plone Live keeps me on the edge of the Plone world and guarantees that Plone Live will have the most current information of any Plone book. Even if you have the others, this is a must-have book. 5

Great Book for Enterprise Grade Plone Development

Plone Live is one of several professionally published books on Plone. Other books include Andy McKay's The Definitive Guide to Plone, Julie Meloni's Plone Content Management Essentials, and Cameron Cooper's Building Websites With Plone. Plone Live fits into this existing ecosystem by providing information for more advanced Plone developers ready to take Plone to the next level to build highly customized, performant applications. The introductory sections are noticeably thin but I think that is OK because books like Plone Content Management Essentials and The Definitive Guide to Plone deliver pretty well in this area. In fact, I would consider donating those chapters as Wiki articles on Plone.org so that the community can maintain and enhance them. Plone Live starts to deliver its value beginning midway through chapter 2 with a road map of what is where in the Zope Management Interface (ZMI). Because Plone is so customizable and the ZMI is not specifically designed to manage a Plone site, it is easy to get disoriented with all the folders and other objects that need to be manipulated in order to customize and extend Plone. The best parts of Plone Live are the sections where it discusses security and the comparative benefits of File Based vs. Through the Web (TTW) development. While most books focus primarily on TTW development, Plone Live's authors make the point that this customization method is primarily for rapid prototyping and is no way to build a robust application because of performance and deployment considerations. The PloneLive website was built as a file based Plone Product and is available for download. There are a number of other downloadable example products available on the website as well. I would like to see a little more information on best practices for developing and debugging File Based applications such as when you need to restart Zope and when you don't, how a team of Plone developers should work together on a Plone project (source control, etc.). However, this is a good start with advice about using Selenium as a function testing tool and other best practices. Plone Live also covers common integrations such as relational databases, LDAP, Apache, and using WebDAV and XML-RPC to integrate with other architectures. For each of these topics, Plone Live provides step by step instructions that are easy to follow. Plone Live contains many references to other good resources including books, websites, and extensions. The book is written in a very "open source" way in that it recognizes the value of the community and is inclusive of rather than competitive with other resources. Plone Live also leverages is the open source concept of frequent releases. Plone Live is a Live Book published by Source Beat. For $29.95, you can subscribe to Plone Live for a year and get access to a constantly updated version of the book. The critical area where Plone Live lacks is in the A to Z index. Plone Live does not have one. If you subscribe to the Plone Live book, I am sure this is not a problem since there is probably search. However, I think it is an issue with the paper version. This is the first Source Beat book that I have read so this might be a format constraint imposed by the publisher. Based on all this, if you have been playing around with Plone or have been using it for a small work group solution, and you want to get serious, pick up Plone Live. You will be glad you did. 4

Good content but horrible production

Normally I wouldn't mark a book down for bad production value but I have to make an exception here. The formatting in this book is so bad in places that it's actually distracting from the content. Some material in tables is shoved into cells so small that it's difficult to understand. That being said, the coverage of Plone is both thorough and well written. Given that I recommend the book. 1590593294 0672326876 1904811027 3540223592 0672326175 0976553406_us 1149507423000 us unread

0859539105 Pocket Python (Pocket Pals Board Books) Book Pam Adams October, 1996 Child's Play International Ltd http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0859539105.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0859539105.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0859539105.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $1.99 $1.99 $2.62 $4.00 $1.97 1034891 Animals - Reptiles & Amphibians Children's Baby - Boardbooks Children: Babies & Toddlers Juvenile Fiction Readers - Beginner Board book 1 0859539105 Usually ships in 24 hours 0859539105_us 1149507535000 us unread

0931044146 Pocketful of Puppets: Never Pick a Python for a Pet Book Tamara Hunt June, 1985 Nancy Renfro Studios http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0931044146.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0931044146.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0931044146.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $9.95 $6.28 2167328 Animals Children's poetry, American Juvenile poetry Puppet theater in education Puppets Puppets and puppet-plays in ed Paperback 0931044146 This item is currently not available. 0931044146_us 1149507595000 us unread

0413760103 Pocketful Of Python Vol 5 (Pocketful of Python) Book Eric Idle 25 January, 2003 Methuen Publishing Ltd http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0413760103.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0413760103.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0413760103.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $11.95 $11.95 $20.06 $7.68 686556 3K5O1N3EV08AQ General Humor Monty Python's flying circus ( Monty Python's flying circus (Television program) Pop Arts / Pop Culture Television - Reference Drama / General English Humor / General TV tie-in humour Hardcover 1 0413760103 Usually ships in 24 hours 4.0 3 3

Not Really A Book At All

Do not be fooled, dear readers- this is not really a book at all, but a mere compilation of some of the different Python sketches throughout the Flying Circus series, with some pictures and artwork thrown in. You can 'read' it within much less than an hour. However, those who love pictures will get plenty in here, and those Python nuts who like to recite the skits line by line can now have a chance at doing so with this pocket-sized book. 4

Great Material

There is some very, very excellent stuff in here, and enough to make up for the fact that it's a very blatant repackaging of old Python material. It seems a little like exploitation to tell you the truth, but the skits are so good that it's forgivable. Some of the best are Lumberjack Song, Madame Palm, Constitutional Peasants, Every Sperm is Sacred, and especially the Oxford Simplified Dictionary. Also included is a very funny preface by Terry Gilliam. 5

Glorious, simply glorious

Spamtastic! It's so nice and little, I can carry it around with me in my purse and backpack! It's great when I need a Python fix. It has "The Lumberjack Song" and "Spam" and "Every Sperm is Sacred" Lyrics, but it also has really funny, lesser known skits like "Constitutional Peasants" (from Holy Grail) and "What Have the Romans Ever Done For Us?" (from Life of Brian). I was really torn between this one and John Cleese's Pocketful of Python, but the "Truth About Protestants" skit (from Meaning of Life) made me get it. Every Python fan should own this. It's a funny and wonderful mix of popular and unpopular Python and will make you [at least] giggle every time you read it. 0413750000 0060758643 0679726470 0679726489 0380804794 0413760103_us 1149507457000 us unread

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A Compelling Read

In my English class I read Poisonous Pythons Paralyze Pennsylvania for my book report. The most thrilling part of the book is when they get lost and find the snake while they are unarmed. The most unbelievable part of the book is when they escape. I guarantee that you will never guess what happens next in any part of the book, and that is what compells you to finish reading. The book was awesome and I urge everyone of every age to read the book. 1893699501 189369948X 1893699463 1893699587 1893699633 1893699536_us 1149507423000 us unread

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A practical guide to the Python programming language

Magnus Lie Hetland's Practical Python provides developers with a practical guide to the Python programming language: while it does assume a degree of basic Python programming experience, it leads readers from the basics to the advanced concepts needed to understand datatypes, abstracts, and other concepts central to Python's datatype offerings. The program's object-oriented applications receive thorough coverage; but half the book covers project development and walks users through ten increasingly complex projects to demonstrate application choices at work. 5

Python - written in clear English.

When I'm looking for a book on programming, I like to avoid anything written in the terse techno-jargon of a reference manual. Knowing the language and teaching it involve two separate skills. I found 'Practical Python', by Magnus Lie Hetland by reading a sample of the book on Amazon.com. I knew well before I finished that it was what I was looking for. In this book, he performs a demystification of the language using lucid English and easily grasped examples to demonstrate what is happening and why it happens. He emphasizes finding the most succinct, elegant, fast executing code as he moves through the building blocks demonstrating how the magic happens. Staying focused, you won't run into any steep learning curves. It's probably the best written and most easily understood book I've read on beginning/intermediate Python, or any book on programming, and that includes Amiga Basic, Qbasic, Logo, Lisp, APL, Smalltalk, Actor, (remember that one?), Turbo Pascal, C++, etc. I wish there had been books like this when I was starting out. It would have saved me from sitting ankle deep in books on a particular language, switching from one to another to find which writer could explain something in a way that I could understand. I emailed Magnus Lie Hartland to compliment him on his book, and he responded, commenting on various points of my email and informing me that he will soon be coming out with a revised verson of the book, called Beginning Python. I notice that Amazon is already taking orders for it for when it is released. 5

I don't write reviews, usually

If you believe one learns more from others than from books and you are a beginner, this book is for you. I always use Python in a hurry. Python pampered me into a lazy learner, but who's to blame? To me, Python is like a friend I am deeply attatched to but never know enough, until I found this book. Yes, even beginners can start USING Python in a week or two. But he/she also knows the difference between his/her programming skill and the professionals'. Well, Magnus will help you catch up with them in a few days' joyful reading. Like Code Complete this book teaches you things you can only learn from experience but it achieves this by using a pedagogical (and practical) programming language, ten illustrative and generalizable projects, and good writing. I can't help you learning Python, but recommanding this book is the least I can do. 1590593561 0596007973 0596002815 1590593715 0596001886 1590590066_us 1149507457000 us unread

0976694085 Pragmatic Ajax : A Web 2.0 Primer Book Justin Gehtland Ben Galbraith Dion Almaer 10 April, 2006 Pragmatic Bookshelf http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0976694085.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0976694085.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0976694085.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $29.95 $18.87 $14.99 $29.95 $18.82 6992 Asynchronous transfer mode Computer - Internet Computer Bks - Languages / Programming Computer Books: Languages Computers Internet - Application Development JavaScript (Computer program language) Programming - General Programming Languages - CGI, Javascript, Perl, VBScript World Wide Web Computers / Programming Languages / CGI, JavaScript, Perl, VBScript ajax, web, rails, javascript, xml, html, css, xmlhttprequest Paperback 1 0976694085 Usually ships in 24 hours 4.5 3 4

Good read, up to date

This is the second Pragmatic Programmers book I've read to have been published as a "beta book." That means that early versions of the text and code were reviewed by lots of readers, and their feedback incorporated into the final version. It shows: this is a very current book which addresses most of the pressing issues around Ajax design and development in language-agnostic ways. There's a chapter that covers some of the current code libraries (like Dojo and Prototype) without playing favorites. The writers write reasonably well. There are some *very* clunky sentences and paragraphs, especially in the last chapter, which feels pretty rushed. And strange continuity mistakes show up in several places, such as references to upcoming material that was actually covered several chapters back. The two consecutive chapters titled "Ajax UI part I" and "Ajax UI part II" feel poorly organized. It's usually a sign an author can't quite figure out how to group material when you get chapters with such vague titles. It is very much a "primer" like the title says: it's an overview and introduction, not a complete guide to all the complexities of Ajax development (see the book "Ajax in Action" for that). It helpfully covers debugging techniques and degradable design. The Ajax support of server-side web frameworks are compared briefly. The good thing is that it's one of those tech books that you can get a lot out of by reading; you don't need to type in a lot of code to understand these concepts. Just don't expect this to be the only book on your Ajax shelf. The only section that's really out of place is, oddly, the first chapter. In it, the authors build a lightweight version of Google Maps, the application they rightly point to as generating a lot of initial interest in Ajax. But what they actually build is a very superficial version of Google Maps: theirs has no server-side component other than a set of images in a directory, and much of the time is spent handling the Javascript to allow the user to drag-scroll the map. It's cute, but that's not sufficient to serve as an example of Ajax. Their map application does not present data from a database, does not use any asynchronous behavior, and does not use the XMLHttpRequest object (or other remoting approach). Even by the authors' own definition of "Ajax" later in the book, this map project ain't it. On its own merits as a DHTML project it's not bad, but it's really out of place. (In fact, the table of contents listed on the publisher's own site suggests it used to be chapter four.) Following it, a short chapter on the basics of Javascript DOM manipulation is also useful, but probably not worth putting at the front of the book (it's also misleadingly titled "Ajax Explained"). If these two chapters were presented as a "DHTML case study Appendix", they'd be just as useful, but less distracting. 4

Great Primer for AJAX and Web 2.0

The only way to really learn Ajax (and the wider "Web 2.0") is write the code yourself, read sites like ajaxian.com, and understand Javascript. The writers behind this book know this because they have not infused a lot of overly complicated examples (as in "Ajax in Action"), but have instead given a wide survey of how Web 2.0 technologies work. The book starts out with a very readable overview of Ajax and follows that up with the best chapter in the book: a fascinating deconstruction of Google Maps. In subsequent chapters, they dive deeper into the XMLHTTPRequest and the mechanics of making asynchronous calls with Javascript. Since most people don't roll their own anymore, they cover client-side frameworks like prototype/scriptaculous and dojo. They cover server-side frameworks like DWR (Java), Rails (Ruby), and Sajax (PHP). They also cover alternate payload formats such as JSON. One thing to note here: AJAX used to refer to "Asynchronous Javascript and XML", but now that the suits have caught on to the term, it has become synonymous with richer web applications. Therefore, I think for the broader audience, AJAX === Web 2.0. Even this book blurs the distinction. For example, they cover some of scriptaculous' effects, which have nothing to do with Ajax. I did not find the chapter on debugging to be too great. For example, no mention of GreaseMonkey is made in the debugging section. I use this all the time to debug and inject stuff into my scripts. None of the chapters in this book is what I'd call comprehensive. It is a primer. The authors of this book have written a very concise, well-written introduction to the world of web 2.0. 5

This book demystifies the Ajax revolution. Highly recommended.

This book is so much more than a technical reference for Ajaxian techniques. It will help you understand how the whole Ajax revolution came about, and where it's going. After providing a foundation of Ajax background, the authors quickly jump in to the mother of all Ajax applications: Google Maps. Not only do they describe what made Google Maps so important, they discuss in detail how the UI side can be implemented. And the most exciting thing? After reading it, you'll feel like you could go out and create that kind of UI. It's very empowering! After the initial excitement of understanding the techniques used in Google Maps, the authors show you a very simple customer entry form and walk you through the process of implementing an Ajax lookup to populate city and state based on zipcode. Then, after teaching the reader how to write the Ajax code from scratch, they discussed Ajax frameworks and walked the reader through implementing the same functionality using the Dojo framework. I thought this progression was very effective. It really showed off the value of learning these frameworks rather than handcoding everything. There was plenty of great discussions of UI possibilities, validation techniques, and other things Ajax can help us with. Not only did the Authors do a great job of teaching the reader what to do, they also invested significant time helping the reader avoid common pitfalls. The book covers so much more: debugging, graceful degradation. JSON, server-side frameworks and Ajax with various server platforms. It finishes with a nice discussion of the future of Ajax. I plan to re-read this book and share it with my colleagues. The authors really did a great job putting this book together. Not only is this a valuable reference, it's also a great cover-to-cover read. 0596102259 1932394613 097669400X 0974514055 0471777781 0976694085_us 1149507375000 us unread

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Very good JavaME book on MMAPI

This is an intermediate-level book for JavaME buffs. The book is just as the title suggests ..its entirely focused on MMAPI. I think the author has done a great job of explaining the details of programming with MMAPI. Its written in a straightforward & meticulous manner and you don't get lost at any point of time. The illustration and examples in this book are done with the help of different devices and emulators like Sun WTK, Motorola, Benq emulators which gives you a hands-on-feel. The tips on querying device capabilities in different chapters are handy. If you are into JavaME MMAPI, you would find this book quite good. The first three chapters introduce the MMAPI, its architecture & getting started with it. The fourth chapter on Media player lifecycle is quite comprehensive in its explanation of all the different Player states. The fifth chapter deals with network access issues of permissions & threads. The next two chapters delve into topics of using Tone Control and managing MIDIs both which have been earlier grey areas for me. Chapter 8 deals with Working with Audio and Video with more of code examples. The book rounds off with a case study of Mobile Blogging with a Companion blog site. 1590596390_us 1149507666000 us unread

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0471777781 Professional Ajax (Programmer to Programmer) Book Nicholas C. Zakas Jeremy McPeak Joe Fawcett 06 February, 2006 Wrox http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0471777781.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0471777781.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0471777781.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $39.99 $25.19 $21.01 $39.99 $21.40 7052 Asynchronous transfer mode Computer - Internet Computer Bks - Internet Computer Books: Languages Computers Internet - Web Site Design JavaScript (Computer program language) Programming Languages - XML World Wide Web Computers / Programming Languages / XML Internet Paperback 1 0471777781 Usually ships in 24 hours 4.5 9 4

Very well done

This book is very well done. It is a good introduction to AJAX and gets you up to speed quick. CONS: 1. Not enough treatment on the server side of things in the beginning chapters. Needed a little more on serializing XML, but then how do you do that in a platform-agnostic way. I was a little disappointed that there were little or no examples in java/jsp/servlet during the Basics, Patterns and XML chapters. Could have used that. Assumes knowledge of PHP. 2. Need a little more treatment of XML/XPath/XSLT. Gets a little bit confusing when the technologies are all combined. 3. I feel like the patterns chapter could have followed the XML/XPath/XSLT chapter. 4. Maybe JSON could be left for the back of the book since the X in AJAX stands for XML. Just a thought. 5. About 65 pages of the book are just on AjaxMail, which has numerous examples, but was a lot of reading to go through on one application. PROS: 1. Not a beginner's book. Assumes knowledge of many things, like PHP, network protocols, HTTP, etc. I'm glad a lot of those details were left out and AJAX was focused on. 2. Gets you up and running with good, working examples. 3. The patterns chapter is very helpful in deciding how to use the stuff. 4. Good chapter on widgets. 5. Bang for the buck when talking about the AJAX frameworks that are out there. Fairly good treatment of JPSpan, DWR and AJAX.NET. 5

Ajax made fun

I found this book to be extremely informative. It is written in a clear, engaging style that makes it a pleasure to read. The examples are well constructed, relevant to real world applications, and thoroughly explained. The essential bits of code are highlighted for quick reading. The most irritating thing about web development is cross-browser support, and authors do a great job to making this less intimidating and point readers to libraries to abstract away the differences. Also covered are related JavaScript XML, XPath, XSLT support, web services, RSS/Atom. PHP is the primary server side language used, though they chose .NET/C# for creating a web service. Microsoft's .NET web service tools are excellent, but I would have liked it if the authors had rounded this out with giving the basics of creating a web service using open source solutions. If you want to learn Ajax techniques and related technologies, this book is well worth your time and money. 5

Only AJAX book you should buy!

AJAX is the we technology everybody is talking abot now and its something that you should know if you are a web developer/designer now or want to be. This book starts with a great chapter explaing how AJAX started and what it really is and how it works. Explaining how AJAX really works can be dificult for the beginner and the authors do it wonderfully. The next chapter goes into the basics of AJAX and how to create a very simple example(s) to give the user a solid foundation of how this new technology works (old technology but new way of using it actally). The next chapter goes into Patterns which describes the programming techniques used by AJAX applications. This is a crucial chapter because it is this technique that allows developers to reall understand how to develop dynamic applications with AJAX. Lots of keywords are thrown around (throttling, periodic refreshing, multi-stage downloads, pending requests, etc) and each are excplained in detailed in a very concise manner that does not confuse the reader. The next chapter focuses on the data format that is used to transfer this data (XML, XPath, XSLT) between each other using AJAX. Various techniques with the different browsers are discussed as well as workarounds if needed for the browser differences. The rest of the book covers web services, JSON, widgets, andhte different frameworks that are available to use. A very complete AJAX book that will get any reader ready to se AJAX in their web development work. A must by... 1932394613 1590596161 0764579088 1590595823 1590595335 0471777781_us 1149507375000 us unread

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1861003013 Professional Linux Programming Book Neil Matthew and Richard Stones Brad Clements Andrew Froggatt David J. Goodger Ivan Griffin Jeff Licquia Ronald van Loon Harish Rawat Udaya Ranawake Marius Sundbakken September, 2000 Peer Information Inc. http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1861003013.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1861003013.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1861003013.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $59.99 $47.72 $89.59 571610 INWQOZZ0FDRH 3SUWBVX7KPUHB 12QMUFII6951W Computer Bks - Languages / Programming Computers Computers - Languages / Programming Operating Systems - General Operating Systems - Linux Programming - General Programming - Software Development Reference Computers and Internet Paperback 1 1861003013 This item is currently not available. 676623030139 By tapping the strengths of the open-source movement, developers can write custom Linux software without spending a dime on licensing fees. Aimed at the experienced C/C++ programmer, Professional Linux Programming provides a wide-ranging and hands-on guide to the different pieces of the puzzle that are required to program successfully on this exciting new platform. The book is framed as a case study for building a custom database program in Linux for a video rental store. After a tour of the requirements and a brief look at project management for creating this software, the various Linux packages that are needed to implement this system are described, along with sample code, most of which is written in C. Some packages, such as the CVS version-control package, come with most distributions of Linux; others will require downloading additional software over the Internet. In every case, you're provided with the actual command-line arguments that are needed to install, configure, and run each package. Besides a great exploration of CVS for version control, this title offers excellent coverage of the free PostgreSQL and MySQL databases, which are two very popular choices for Linux databases. The book also does a good job of explaining UI design under both the GTK+/GNOME and KDE (two popular Linux desktops), and how to extend the reach of the sample database application by using Remote Procedure Calls (RPCs) and CORBA. Of course, the finished application doesn't use every Linux API that's covered here, but the book does cast a wide net, and introduces features and tools that are available. Two prominent chapters take you on a tour of the essentials of other programming languages. There's PHP for Web development and an appealing, enthusiastic introduction to Python (which probably will turn you into a Python convert). Later chapters provide practical tips for testing and debugging applications, including how to profile your code. The book closes with a useful guide to creating Red Hat Package Manager (RPM) packages for deploying applications, as well as an overview of your options for internationalization. By covering so many APIs, languages, and tools effectively, Professional Linux Programming gives experienced C/C++ programmers all that they need to get started with Linux development. With its remarkably clear presentation style and abundance of practical tips, the book is an admirably useful blueprint for building custom software. --Richard Dragan Topics covered: <ul><li>Introduction to open-source software and Linux requirements <li>Use cases and sample C objects for sample video rental store <li>Version control and CVS (command-line options, revisions, branches, and multiuser version control) <li>Open-source freeware packages compared (mSQL, MySQL, and PostgreSQL) <li>Introduction to databases <li>Installing and using PostgreSQL <li>Tutorial on psql SQL <li>PostgreSQL C database APIs using libcq and embedded SQL calls with ECPG <li>Installing and using MySQL (command-line utilities and C database APIs) <li>Debugging with gdb <li>Introduction and tutorial to UI programming with glib <li>GTK+ and GNOME <li>Source trees and GNOME <li>UI design with Glade <li>Testing strategies (including regression testing, profiling, and memory bounds checking) <li>KDE/Qt UI programming <li>Introduction and quick tutorial to Python (keywords and basic syntax) <li>PHP for Web programming <li>Introduction to Remote Procedure Calls (RPCs) and CORBA <li>XML basics (document structure, parsing, and libxml) <li>Strategies for documentation (including custom man pages) <li>Distributing Linux applications with Red Hat Package Manager (RPM) packages <li>Code patches</ul> 3.5 7 3

heavy reading

The biggest problem I have with this book is its weight. It's just too big and clunky to hold up to read. Splitting into two bindings would have been nice. But it does cover a lot and it needs to be large to do so. 4

Good reference

I bought the Beginners Guide to Linux Programming and I really liked that book. This book is a very good follow-up, but it doesn't give the reader more programming tips. It covers many topics which makes this book a great reference for anyone who deals with Linux and even other flavors of Unix on a day to day basic. Buy this book if you are looking for a reference book on developing software on Linux that covers advanced topics. 5

Good reference for a wide range of Open Source technologies

This book is a follow-up to Beginning Linux Programming, but with a wider range of authors. The book is a series of chapters on various tools and applications, all of them Open Source, based mainly round things that application developers might use, though there is a single chapter on device drivers.Most topics only get a single chapter, so there isn't as much depth as you would find in a dedicated book on each topic, but there is a very wide range of material all covered in enough depth to get the more experienced programmer started with a new topic. There are one or two weaker areas, but overall a good choice of material succinctly presented for the more experienced application developer. I've given it 5 stars as it was exactly what I was looking for - a single reference to help me create a Linux-based web database application, your mileage may vary. I recommend you at least consider it. 0672327201 0596005903 0596009305 0321219147 0131429647 1861003013_us 1149507501000 us unread

0596526725 Programming Atlas Book Christian Wenz 01 August, 2006 O'Reilly Media, Inc. http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0596526725.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0596526725.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0596526725.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $34.99 $22.04 60157 Computer - Internet Computer Books: Languages Computers Internet - Application Development Internet - Web Site Design Microcomputer Application Software Programming - General Programming Languages - CGI, Javascript, Perl, VBScript Atlas,AJAX,DHTML,JavaScript,ASP.NET Computers / Internet / Web Site Design Paperback 1 0596526725 Not yet released. 1590596471 1590596706 047178544X 0471777781 1932394613 0596526725_us 1149507375000 us unread

1852335890 Programming in Java and Javascript Book Graham M. Seed 30 June, 2006 Springer-Verlag http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1852335890.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1852335890.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1852335890.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $64.95 $64.95 3773499 Computer Books: Languages Computer Networks Computer Programming Languages Computers Computers - Languages / Programming Programming Languages - CGI, Javascript, Perl, VBScript Programming Languages - Java Paperback 1 1852335890 Not yet released. 1852335890_us 1149507666000 us unread

0596009259 Programming Python Book Mark Lutz 01 July, 2006 O'Reilly Media, Inc. http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0596009259.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0596009259.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0596009259.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $59.99 $37.79 271469 Computer Books: Languages Computers Computers - Languages / Programming Programming Languages - General Programming Languages - Python Computers / Programming Languages / CGI, JavaScript, Perl, VBScript Python, scripting, tkinter, Twisted, wxPython Paperback 1 0596009259 Not yet released. Completely revised and improved, the second edition of Programming Python is an excellent compendium of material geared toward the more knowledgeable Python developer. It includes dozens of reusable scripts for common scripting tasks, and is one of the best available sources of information for this popular object-oriented scripting language. In over 1,200 pages of material, this book offers an extremely comprehensive guide to Python development. Though his book is densely packed with information, Mark Lutz is a lively and witty writer whose focus is on getting things done using the natural strengths of the Python language. To that end, after an introduction and history of the language, the book shows how to use Python for performing automated tasks with files and directories (for example, for doing backups both locally and on Web servers). Not only will this book teach you more about Python, but it will also give you a library of code that you can use as is or adapt for your own projects. The text covers every conceivable facet of Python and the language's support for networking, files and directories, task management, and even persistence (through its support for shelves). Complete Python programs show how to create e-mail clients, do reporting, and create Web applications (for an online errata database). Chapters on doing graphics programming in Python, as well as coverage of both built-in and custom data structures, are especially good. Because Python is often used for automating installations (in some Linux distributions, for instance), readers will appreciate the sample code and tips for using Python to create bulletproof installs. Later sections show how get Python to work with C, Java (through JPython), and other languages. The book concludes with useful reference sections summarizing key aspects of Python, like its revision history, relationship to C++, and other material. There aren't many titles on Python, and fans of this up-and-coming language are lucky to have such a solid tutorial and guide available in Programming Python. Perfect for those with just a little previous exposure to the language, it's all you need to master Python in-depth and tap its considerable power for virtually any software project. --Richard Dragan Topics covered: <ul><li>Introduction to Python <li>Basic system scripts with Python (including file and directory tools) <li>Working with processes and threads <li>Pipes and signals <li>Sample scripts for system and Web utilities (including backing up files, program launching, replicating and managing directories) <li>Graphical user interface design in Python (including the Tkinter module) <li>Widgets and basic components <li>Layout options <li>Event handling <li>GUI examples (including a working text editor, image viewer, and clock) <li>Network scripting (sockets, FTP, and e-mail clients) <li>Server-side scripting <li>Sample server scripts for an online errata database <li>Python on the Internet (including Zope, JPython, and XML tools) <li>Databases and persistence in Python (including pickled objects and shelf files) <li>Custom and built-in data structures in Python <li>Text and string handling <li>C integration with Python (including the SWIG module) <li>Embedding Python calls within C <li>Hints for using Python in real projects <li>Reference to recent changes to Python <li>Python vs. C++ quick-start guide</ul> 3.5 58 2

Misleading

While I think this book has value for some, it's not the target audience Mr. Lutz states. This is NOT a book for somewhat advanced programmers. This is a book for beginners. What's worse, the material is presented in an almost condescending manner, as if Lutz doubts the reader's ability to grasp even the simple concepts he lays out. To further the insult, he repeats himself endlessly. For those of us who aren't rank amateurs there are other gems in store, pointing up the author's lack of technical acumen. Merely suggesting that someone should use telnet from all over the world to access web servers or email is just absurd, for instance. There are many more examples. The author bio states that Mark Lutz has been involved in Python for a long time and is a key figure. That statement appearing in this book casts a shadow over Python itself. I'm going to give Python and Mr. Lutz the benefit of the doubt and assume both have merits not seen in this work. If I hadn't heard such good things about Python from other sources and only had this book to go by I would be ditching Python. 5

a very well written introduction book

I liked this book because its approach is very practical. Probably one of the best python introduction books. I liked "In Action" chapters a lot. I used them for reference while gaining experience with the Python. It covers a lot of essential topic for the beginner. Python is also a very productive programming language and environment so both the book and language is highly recommended. 5

It's about thinking, not just programming

I'm picky buying books now because there are so many good ones online free: Delve Into Python is one of them. Yet, after spending in B&N for 1 hr looking through the book, I realized that this book should be put on my book shelve, for the following reasons: 1) It is job-oriented. Just look at the title of each chapter; 2) It provides a big picture: detailed technical skills are integrated into the understanding of the big picture; 3) Every sense let you think of something you've never thought before. In summary, this book is not just about teaching how to program; it is about how to think with computer as your close friend- a soulmate: assuming at this time that your soulmate talks in Python! 0596002815 0596007973 0596001886 0596000960 0596009402 0596009259_us 1149507414000 us unread

0596101503 Programming Rails Book Robby Russell 01 April, 2006 O'Reilly Media, Inc. http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0596101503.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0596101503.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0596101503.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $39.99 755135 Computer Books: Languages Computers Computers - Languages / Programming Internet - Application Development Programming - Software Development Programming Languages - General Computers / Programming Languages / CGI, JavaScript, Perl, VBScript ruby, rails, web, web programming, ajax, javascript, web development, database Paperback 1 0596101503 This item is currently not available. 1932394699 097669400X 0596101325 0974514055 0976694085 0596101503_us 1149507375000 us unread

0761523340 Programming With Python Book Tim Altom Mitch Chapman 20 October, 1999 Premier Press http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0761523340.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0761523340.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0761523340.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $39.99 $39.99 $8.95 $7.42 $2.95 1250112 Computer Bks - Languages / Programming Computer Books And Software Computer Networks Computer Programming Languages Computers Computers - Languages / Programming Internet - General Programming - Object Oriented Programming Programming Languages - General Python (Computer program langu Python (Computer program language) Paperback 1 0761523340 Special Order 086874523340 1.5 3 1

Highly Disappointed

This book fails miserably. I was quite surprise how a professional writer put so little effort into this book; the end result is more of an beginning outline than a completed book: no overview, lack of focus, no apparent structure. The authors claim you can learn Python by reading over their 40 annotated scripts. First, the scripts are not fully explained; often no more than a few paragraphs. Second, the book does not document how any of the examples relate to the Python syntax. The documentation provided with the Python source code is better than this fruitless effort. 1

Superficial and Overpriced.

This book seems designed for programmers who have more money than time. It's presented in a quick, here's some code, you figure it out fashion. It reminds me of a college student's attempt to finish a term paper by spending the weekend surfing the net, doing a lot of cut & paste, and throwing in a comment here and there to hold it together by . Not very professional or satisfying.Perhaps if this book had come out 3 years ago it could have filled some programmers need for a quick, high level overview of Python. Today however, most of what is in this book is available for free on the net and there are far better Python books to spend your money on. If you're looking for a good introduction to Python, look somewhere else. I recommend "Learning Python (Help for Programmers)" or, if you comfortable with the basics and prefer to learn by studying other peoples code, try "Python Annotated Archives" (which, unlike this book, really is annotated). 2

Shoddy editing?

OK, I just bought this book today and haven't even finished the whole thing, but based on what I've seen I may not (I actually wish I could return except I've opened the software). From what I've seen though:A lot of code is HIGHLY inefficient....I've written code that does the same thing with a third the number of lines. A lot of the code is just not well thought out or thorough. For instance he provides code for converting Roman numerals back to numbers, but it doesn't check for invalid characters. Additionally it doesn't check to make sure the characters are in the proper sequence -- what it does roughly, is if it finds an "I" it builds a math expression "+1", then "+5" for "V" "+10" for "X" and so forth. But what this would allow is an invalid roman numeral, "IL", to be turned into the number 51.The author does point out that he didn't necessarily write all the code, but for crying out loud he should have checked it better. And there are other types of errors, such a multiple statements on the same line, without the necessary seperator. The only reason I give it two stars is that I've gotten some inspiration for new (to me) ideas from it, but I can actually get that from just about any computer book.PS The code on the CD-ROM seems to be in UNIX format requiring unzipping using tar. 0761523340_us 1149507501000 us unread

0520041062 Python Book May, 1980 University of California Press http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0520041062.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0520041062.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0520041062.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $120.00 4396086 Delphian oracle Dragons Mythology, Greek Paperback 0520041062 This item is currently not available. 0520041062_us 1149507595000 us unread

0596001282 Python & XML Book Christopher Jones Fred Drake Christopher A. Jones 15 December, 2001 O'Reilly Media, Inc. http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0596001282.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0596001282.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0596001282.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $39.95 $25.17 $11.83 $13.99 235902 24LXBKBTG5TQU VT6ICK79ECVW Computer Books: Languages Computer Networks Computer Programming Languages Computers Computers - Languages / Programming Internet - General Programming Languages - General Programming Languages - HTML Programming Languages - Python Programming Languages - XML Computers / Programming Languages / General Python, XML, cross-platform application language, XSLT, Xpath, SOAP, DOM/SAX XML Paperback 1 0596001282 Usually ships in 24 hours 636920001287 4.0 3 5

Great coverage with some typos

This book really dvelves into the using XML with Python. The chapter are well laid out and easy to read. There are some typos but nothing that you can't fix. There are some problems using the current XSLT processer that ships with PyXml0.7 but you can still apply the concepts (I used MSXML's XSLT). The best chapter (last one (:-|) ties all the concepts explained into a Web Service like app. that really shows the real strength of XML 5

Good Coverage of Python XML possibilities

I really liked this book because I was able to quickly start using XML with Python. I tried to use the package docs, but they were often hard to read, and didn't fill me in on the background stuff I needed to know. The examples in this book were easy to understand, and easy to see how to make practical applications from them. I didn't encounter any typos like the other reader did. 2

Terse, and too many typos!

I'm not very far along in the book, but I don't like what I'm seeing. The preface purports that the book's audience need not "know anything about XML." There is very little in the way of explaining XML, however. The chapter on "Fundamentals" is O'Reilly at its most terse. If you already understand XML very well, you might think this chapter an excellent itemizing of the specification. Sadly, most people, I imagine, would be able to retain little from this.Regarding the code examples, the explanations hardly illuminate the API. The code stands as is; and the commentary does only a somewhat decent job of explaining the larger context. You could always check the documentation given in the back of the book, but that's hardly as helpful as a good overview and commentary.Moreover, and in some ways worse, I have found many typos -- and I am only as far as the first two examples. These mistakes include missing import statements, errant capitalization, bad indentation, double underscores ('__') written as one long underscore. This is unacceptable. I can only hope it is just this one chapter.I bought this book because of the topics, and because I figured Python would be the easiest way to learn XML API's. I am only hoping that the book will get better, and that I will be able to derive benefit from it. As it stands, I'm skeptical that I will get my money's worth. 0596007973 0596002815 0596000960 0596000855 0596001886 0596001282_us 1149507458000 us unread

2841771601 Python (en français) Book Mark Lutz 30 October, 2002 O'Reilly http://images.amazon.com/images/P/2841771601.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/2841771601.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/2841771601.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg Paperback 2841771601 This item is currently not available. 2841771601_us 1149507457000 us unread

0864176988 Python (Picture Roo Book) Book Pauline Reilly Will Rolland September, 1995 Kangaroo Press http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0864176988.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0864176988.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0864176988.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $6.95 4279683 Animals - Reptiles & Amphibians Children's Books/Ages 4-8 Nonfiction Paperback 1 0864176988 This item is currently not available. 0864176988_us 1149507535000 us unread

0413756602 PYTHON 12-COPY COUNTERPACK 2000 Book 05 October, 2000 Methuen Publishing Ltd http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0413756602.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0413756602.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0413756602.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $156.46 $98.57 Hardcover 0413756602 Usually ships in 4 to 6 weeks 0413756602_us 1149507501000 us unread

0764548077 Python 2.1 Bible (Bible) Book Dave Brueck Stephen Tanner 29 June, 2001 Wiley http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0764548077.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0764548077.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0764548077.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $39.99 $26.39 $6.49 $20.00 594633 15ND45SPUBCTE Computer Books: General Computer Networks Computer Programming Languages Computers Computers - Languages / Programming Internet - General Programming Languages - General Programming Languages - Python Python (Computer program langu Python (Computer program language) Computers / Programming / Software Development Programming languages Paperback 1 0764548077 Usually ships in 24 hours 785555072497 4.5 8 5

The best kept secret of Python books

I am a fan of this book! First and foremost, all the information I needed to write Python programs was there and it was easy to find. This means the book is well organized and the index is great. Don't forget to check out the book's website too. Secondly, the book covers topics no other book that I know touches. Read the TOC of Parts IV and V by clicking the book cover picture at the top of this page and you will agree. Thirdly, the authors have a concise style, which you will learn to appreciate after reading chatty Pythonist folks like Lutz. Bruek and Tanner tell you just what you need to know and they use only as many words as needed for this purpose. Finally, I like the fonts used in this book. They are special, even the one used for Python scripts, and they set the apparence of this book apart from your typical computer language book. The coverage of the OOP could indeed be expanded, and, most importantly, the book needs a new edition to cover the latest Python version (2.4 as I write this). I would buy a copy of the second edition on the spot. 4

A good introduction

With a background of C/C++ and Java, I was dropped in the Python deep-end by a client who had a systems monitoring tool written in Python that needed urgent enhancements made. I ordered the Python 2.1 Bible and the client provided Programming Python 2nd edition (pub. O'Reilly). The O'Reilly book looked at first sight more useful, but I choked on it as it assumed prior knowledge of Python. The Python 2.1 Bible, on the other hand, assumed no prior knowledge of Python and within 3 days (whilst waiting for a Linux box to arrive !) I had written a number of powerful disk utilities, socket-based clients and servers, small GUI-based programs etc that ran on my Windows-based PC and which should run on Linux too (still waiting for the box !!). For me it was an excellent introduction to Python. After reading the Python 2.1 Bible I felt able to read Programming Python. Still waiting for the Linux box though so still haven't written the "urgent" enhancements...The only negatives I would have for Python 2.1 Bible are: (1) that it assumed C/C++ knowledge (which was fine for me but might not be for other people) (2) a (very) few areas could have done with a bit more explanation, raising questions that experienced OO people would want answered 5

Excellent book...

Without a doubt the best and most helpful python book that I've read to date. 0596002815 0596007973 0596001886 0596000855 0764557467 0764548077_us 1149507501000 us unread

3540000178 Python : Interaktiver Einstieg in die Programmierung (Xpert.press) Book Marc Balmer February, 2005 Springer http://images.amazon.com/images/P/3540000178.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/3540000178.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/3540000178.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg Computers / Programming / Software Development Hardcover 3540000178 This item is currently not available. 3540000178_us 1149507414000 us unread

0516303910 Python and Anaconda Book June, 1988 Crestwood House http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0516303910.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0516303910.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0516303910.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg 4278204 Anaconda Juvenile literature Pythons Reptiles Reticulated python Library Binding 0516303910 This item is currently not available. 0516303910_us 1149507595000 us unread

1884777813 Python and Tkinter Programming Book John E. A. Grayson January, 2000 Manning Publications http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1884777813.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1884777813.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1884777813.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $49.95 $73.69 $70.00 49975 12QMUFII6951W 15ND45SPUBCTE 22OCQHXOF37ZS Computer Books: Languages Computer Networks Computer Programming Languages Computers Computers - Languages / Programming Internet - General Programming - Object Oriented Programming Programming - Software Development Programming Languages - General Python (Computer program langu Python (Computer program language) Tcl (Computer program language Tcl (Computer program language) Tk toolkit Paperback 1 1884777813 This item is currently not available. Books on graphical user interfaces (GUI) have an unfair advantage over typical computer books. Their contents have immediate positive impact on everything they touch, from the popularity of the underlying language to the careers of the developers they reach. Even mediocre GUI books have a beneficial impact. John E. Grayson's deeply thought out, maturely written Python and Tkinter Programming does the double service of being a excellent object-oriented GUI book and communicating the standard for Tk-widget-based GUI development to the Python community. The short-term result will be a rapid expansion in the popularity of Python itself; the long-term result will be a new batch of supportable, reusable code. Grayson begins with a three-line "hello world" variant that works out of the box. He moves quickly to a variety of GUI calculators to exhibit buttons and label widgets. Familiarity with Tk from Tcl/Tk or Perl/Tk is helpful but not essential. The convenient bonus of the Python implementation is its inclusion in the standard Python release, of which the current stable version is 1.5. Nearly half of the book is dedicated to Tk widget implementations and constitutes a translation of Tk into Python. By itself, it is a good teaching tool for students of Python who already know Tk in one of its other manifestations. Appendices covering build/install issues Python megawidgets and a Tkinter reference manual comprise nearly 40 percent of the book, leaving a brief 15 percent for the introductory tutorial, application building, and performance tuning. A late chapter on threads suggests a broad range of client/server applications, but is too brief to be more than a tease. Throughout the text, code snippets are presented in coherent blocks with annotations sensibly appearing as clearly numbered end notes to those blocks. Grayson presents cross-platform issues with maturity and candor. While Python for Windows and Macintosh environments is stable, he asserts, the Tkinter module does not have the same global look-and-feel control. Fonts and colors are dictated partially by the platform OS. The subtle challenge for developers is to develop supportable code in the breakneck boss-pleasing, GUI-driven environment. Grayson's elegant introduction to Tkinter advances the subtext of supportability noticeably farther along. By documenting Tkinter, he will push a group of laggard hackers to learn object-oriented principles. And that may be his lasting contribution. --Peter Leopold 3.5 19 3

Tkinter shortchanged

Tkinter gets a too-brief treatment in Grayson's rush to get on to the subject of Pmw, the Python megawidget library, which seems to be the real subject of the book. If you're not going to work in Pmw, most of this book is useless.The basics of Tk are poorly presented, apparently on the assumption that the reader is already familiar with Tk. The first appendix is devoted to the mapping between Tk and Tkinter, a typical "nugget" being the revelation that the Tk construct "-label string" maps onto the Tkinter construct "label=string", which conveys no useful information in the absence of a complete Tk reference.Appendix B, a Tkinter reference, has often left me frustrated. It begins with the understandable space-saving device of a list of "Options shared by most widgets," but then continues with "Options shared by many widgets" (why separate?) and "Common widget methods," whose connection with the rest of the appendix is obscure. Studying a widget's entry in Appendix B seldom produces a confident grasp of how to use that widget.The book is mostly tutorial in form, suited for leisurely reading but frustrating as a reference. 2

Lots of info, poorly presented!

I find that the author is out of touch with how to present material. He's already tackling a 'calculator' application by page 22. Quite a jump! He should have consulted with someone more experienced in material presentation for someone learning and/or trying to tie concepts together.By starting with basics in the early going, it would have made understanding a little easier in the more complex examples. 2

Not Enough about Tk

I have programmed several commercial Macintosh and Windows applications and I have become fairly proficient with Python, so I figured that writing GUIs with Tkinter would be pretty straightforward and Grayson's book looked like a great place to start. Not so. While it's fine to have lots of code samples, what would have been even better was much more nitty-gritty discussion of Tk itself. Tk is very clever and powerful, but it is not straightforward. This is even more true of Megawidgets, upon which Pmw is based, and which is widely used in Grayson's examples.The appendices at the end are great if you know exactly what you are looking up but frustrating if you don't have a good overview of how Tk works. I recommend Effective Tcl/Tk Programming by Harrison and McLennan to fill in some of the many gaps in Grayson. 0596007973 1590593715 0596002815 0596000855 0596001886 1884777813_us 1149507501000 us unread

0072121041 Python Annotated Archives Book Martin C. Brown 10 November, 1999 Osborne Publishing http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0072121041.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0072121041.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0072121041.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $49.99 $49.99 $5.72 $12.45 1527365 Computer Bks - Languages / Programming Computer Books: Languages Computer Networks Computer Programming Languages Computers Computers - Languages / Programming Internet - General Programming - Object Oriented Programming Programming Languages - General Python (Computer program langu Python (Computer program language) Paperback 1 0072121041 Special Order 783254031340 3.0 5 1

Archives is geared toward a particular style of learning

The examples in this book are geared for UNIX administrators, limiting its usefulness to other users. Consider this book if you are a UNIX administrator who learns best by looking at code examples, otherwise your time and money are probably best spent on another book. For examples of how to do things - Python Essential Reference is a better book. Archives is not as much a reference as it is a method of learning Python by looking at code examples and explanations of the code. 5

Excellent guide to using Python

Every chapter was of interest. Seeing networks and web programming and user interface from the Python perspective helped me evaluate the language as a tool for a particular project I have in mind. The CD-Rom had clear directories and quick install of the language along with the on-line tutorial and other learning aids.I found the type just the right size. Overall a comfortable read. It sold me on Python. 3

Interesting Scripts, and a great how-to guide.

If your the kind of person that likes to read someone elses code, and the modify the hell out of it to get your job done or learn a language. Then this is DEFINITELY the book for you.If your looking for the definitive Python reference that you can carry with you and look up the more esoteric methods or rules. Then this is DEFINITELY NOT the book for you! You need to go get Python Essential Reference. I have 5 python books right now. Of the 5 I'm thinking of getting another copy to carry with me, and leave this one at work. All the rest we're helpful in getting me started, but don't get the same use day to day. 0072121041_us 1149507501000 us unread

0952944502 Python Brochette: Short Stories, Poetry, Yarns Book Ronald W. McDonald July, 1997 The Labrys Press http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0952944502.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0952944502.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0952944502.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg Fiction anthologies & collections Poetry texts & anthologies Short stories Paperback 0952944502 This item is currently not available. 0952944502_us 1149507534000 us unread

B0006DY476 Python cave Book Merna Wilson 1977 Modern Publications http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0006DY476.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0006DY476.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0006DY476.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg Unknown Binding B0006DY476 This item is currently not available. B0006DY476_us 1149507595000 us unread

0596007973 Python Cookbook Book Alex Martelli Anna Ravenscroft David Ascher 18 March, 2005 O'Reilly Media, Inc. http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0596007973.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0596007973.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0596007973.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $49.95 $31.47 $31.46 $49.95 $31.46 24900 2B6MD24GUTBUK T6E1W3BPCRXW 242NMT3CMJW6X Computer Bks - Languages / Programming Computer Books: Languages Computers Computers - Languages / Programming Programming - General Programming - Object Oriented Programming Programming Languages - CGI, Javascript, Perl, VBScript Programming Languages - General Programming Languages - Python Python (Computer program language) Computers / Programming Languages / CGI, JavaScript, Perl, VBScript Python, python, programming, scripting, web programming, cookbook Paperback 1 0596007973 Usually ships in 24 hours 4.5 19 4

Python Cookbook, 2nd ED

This book gives the reader a tour of the possibilities of the Python language. Both the Python novice and expert will find the book relevant since newcomers will be exposed to a wide array of things that Python can do, while experts can learn different ways of tackling a problem by looking at somebody else's approach. The book is well written and provides historical insights into Python's evolution. This second edition has a lot more examples in it compared to the first edition. The authors have done a superb job in explaining concepts as opposed to simply presenting listing after listing of Python code. Hence, it makes for a good reference book for the person wanting to dive into Python. The book assumes some knowledge of the Python language, so use it to complement a book that will teach the basics of the language (such as "Learning Python"). In summary, I would highly recommend the book for the person wanting to know the Python language. 5

Best book in my Python library

I really appreciate the depth and quality of the work in this book. The concept of having the Python community build a book is keeping right in line with the philosophy of the original development of Python. Thanks you Alex. 4

A Fun Resource for Python Programmers at Most Levels

Full disclosure: I purchased the first edition of this book, and received the second edition as a reviewers copy. I work for Zope Corporation. The O'Reilly Python Cookbook is a fun resource for Python programmers at most levels. The fun comes in part from the personalities that shine through the introductions and the community-authored recipes gathered from the ActiveState Python Cookbook website. The other fun comes from the smorgasbord of topics and technologies laid out for the reader, encouraging browsing and experimentation. New Python programmers will find recipes that highlight some of the newer features of the Python language, and experienced Python programmers will likely find thought-provoking recipes both peripherally and directly related to their specialties and interests. Like the first edition, this second edition covers a wide range of topics. Each topic has a usually-interesting introduction by well-known names in the Python community. Some topics are of general interest-shortcuts and algorithms, for instance-while others explore somewhat more specialized topics, such as networks, XML, and databases. Each cookbook recipe I read was impressively short, while often still having enough weight to them to address non-toy usages of the approaches. Many examples can also be used as introductions to the modules and packages they use. Another important similarity to the first edition is that a portion of the proceeds from the book sales are donated to the Python Software Foundation. This edition of the cookbook does have some significant changes from the previous one. While the first edition addressed Python versions in the 1.x and 2.x line, this one addresses only Python 2.3 and 2.4. It adds about a third more recipes than the first edition, and tops the first edition's page count by over 200 pages. Some of the new additions address relatively new packages, such as the datetime, dateutils, pytz, and decimal packages, while others focus on older packages that are waxing in their influence and popularity, such as Twisted. Many recipes are more polished, such as the "Synchronizing All Methods in an Object," which has an arguably more general purpose approach and an interesting discussion in the new edition. Omissions are sometimes as interesting as inclusions in recipe books, but an interpretation of their significance can be difficult. The new edition dropped almost 100 of the first edition's recipes. In the "Distributed Programming" topic, the SOAP references in the first edition have disappeared, and a recipe for Twisted's Perspective Broker has surfaced. While the Perspective Broker is an interesting technology with an elegant cookbook example, the seeming judgement-SOAP is now less worth discussion than one of the Twisted project's packages-might raise some eyebrows. Similarly, Zope and the ZODB (Zope Object Database) are acknowledged as heavyweights in the introductions to their respective topics ("Web Programming" and "Persistence and Databases"). Zope 3 is even granted a rave review: "The new, revolutionary major release, Zope 3, makes Zope more Pythonic and powerful than ever." But not a single recipe can be found for either, in either edition. Perhaps that simply is indicative that the Zope community ought to pay more attention to the Cookbook website. This returns us to the initial observation of this review: the cookbook is a community driven project, and thus reflects the personalities of the programmers who contributed to it, rather than necessarily to trends of the Python or IT community. But it also benefits from the energy and enthusiasm of the contributors who often have palpable excitement for the technologies they are demonstrating. This also makes me more interested in the book as a source for introductions than as a source for ready-made recipes. If a picture is worth a thousand words, a working, explained example of a new package ought to be worth quite a few too. The cookbook is a fun browse and a fun introduction to other aspects of the Python language. While I have found myself using one or two of the recipes from the first edition, that use alone is not enough to justify the cover price. It is more compelling to me as a fun introduction to Python topics and approaches. In that light, I recommend it. 0596002815 0596001886 0596000855 1590593715 1590593561 0596007973_us 1149507414000 us unread

0571169422 Python Dance Book Norman Silver 02 February, 1994 Faber and Faber http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0571169422.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0571169422.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0571169422.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $14.82 $49.25 Fiction Paperback 0571169422 This item is currently not available. 0571169422_us 1149507586000 us unread

0672319942 Python Developer's Handbook (Other Sams) Book Andre Lessa 12 December, 2000 Sams http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0672319942.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0672319942.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0672319942.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $44.99 $41.65 $2.48 $15.00 $3.59 968361 C5DTEUSRWPM4 Computer Books: General Computers Computers - Languages / Programming Object-Oriented Programming Object-oriented programming (C Object-oriented programming (Computer science) Programming - Object Oriented Programming Programming Languages - Python Python (Computer program langu Python (Computer program language) Computers / Programming Languages / General Paperback 1 0672319942 Usually ships in 24 hours 752063319949 3.5 9 2

why is this book still in print?

There might be some need for a book that covers intesively py 1.5.2, which I think was released in 1997 or so, but aside from that, you will read about code and libraries that are no longer maintained, or even available. 2

Too many errors - not enough info for the number of pages

I was looking forward to reading another python book, but there are too many errors in the Python Developer's Handbook, for it to be useful to its intended audience. I glanced through a few pages randomly, and saw many blatant mistakes that I am surprised the author didn't catch. Here are some examples of mistakes caught glancing just through the first 200 pages of the book:major mistakes p.105. The author gives an example of the copy module. >>> import copy >>> x = [1,2,3,[4,5,6]]>>> y = copy.copy(x)The author states here, "As you can see, this function provides the same result that y=x[:] does. It creates a new object that references the old one. If the original object is a mutable object and has its value changed, the new object will change too."The author's statement is totally wrong, given the example he presents. In this case, y is a copy of x, and changing either one will not change the other, as the following shows:>>> x=[1,2,3,[4,5,6]] >>> x[1, 2, 3, [4, 5, 6]] >>> y = x[:] >>> id(x) == id(y) 0 >>> x [1, 2, 3, [4, 5, 6]] >>> y [1, 2, 3, [4, 5, 6]] >>> x.append(7) >>> x [1, 2, 3, [4, 5, 6], 7] >>> y [1, 2, 3, [4, 5, 6]] >>>major mistake: p.191. This example makes no sense at all, and surely, typing it in produces a traceback. Yet the author shows an answer he got as 2. Makes me really wonder, how many drinks did the author have while proofreading this book?>>> def printGlobalcount(): print Globalcount.n >>> class Counting: n = 0 def __init__(self): Globalcount.n = Globalcount.n + 1 >>> inc = Counting() Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in ? inc = Counting() File "", line 4, in __init__ Globalcount.n = Globalcount.n + 1 NameError: global name 'Globalcount' is not defined >>> more subtle mistakes: stick with the same case, for example p.186:The class names are first mentioned as Student and NewStudent, but in the next few pages they change case, and mysteriously become student, and newstudent.>>> studentfile.newstudent.__name__ 'newstudent'Final Word:Overall, I have serious reservations about recommending this book to anyone but a proofreader. I found way too many mistakes in the initial analysis of the book for it to be very useful to any serious python programmer.Overall Rating:I give this book 2 stars out of 5. 3

Time to move on

I bought this at a Borders store after comparing all the Python books they had in stock (they had no O'Reilly book at the time). The basic language is pretty simple, so I was looking for something that had a lot of library chapters.This fit the bill fairly well, but there are a number of frustrating things. The poor editing job to clean up the author's English is the biggest. The layout of paragragh name, content, examples is sometimes accidentally inconsistant, i.e. more poor editing.While it covers a lot of library code in its 900+ pages, it leaves out some stuff I would use a lot. Perhaps the sections on interacting with Java and C should be in a separate book. Think of this book as something that touches on everything but needs to be augmented by more detailed books in areas of interest.Finally, the Python 2.x information was added late in the process. That was not a big deal, as I had been writing to 1.5 specs.All in all, the book was worthwhile and I expect to keep using it, but I'm about to buy "Web Programming In Python" sight unseen. It's time to move on. 0672319942_us 1149507501000 us unread

0672328623 Python Essential Reference (3rd Edition) (Developer's Library) Book David M. Beazley 20 February, 2006 Sams http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0672328623.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0672328623.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0672328623.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $34.99 $22.04 $15.23 $34.99 $16.03 30897 Computer Books: Languages Computers Computers - Languages / Programming Programming Languages - General Programming Languages - Python Computers / Programming Languages / General Paperback 1 0672328623 Usually ships in 24 hours Every so often a book comes along that makes you ask yourself, "Gee, when was the last time I had my eyes checked?" David M. Beazley's Python: Essential Reference is just such a book. Condensing thousands of pages of Python online documentation into a compact 319-page softcover, Beazley and his editors used the old-college trick (often performed in reverse) of dickering with the font size to meet a putative page-limit requirement. The result is a truly condensed product fit for the occularly well-adjusted (nota bene). Beazley's subject is Python, a full-featured, freely-redistributable, POSIX-compliant (platforms include Linux, Unix, Macintosh, and Windows) scripting language that is based on object-oriented design principles. As advertised, Beazley's source release (1.5.2) is available from an unfortunately slow server at www.python.org. The installation under Linux (Redhat 5.2) proceeded without incident. Beazley holds true to his catalogic purpose: fully 230 pages are formatted as technical appendices and indices covering the standard litany: built-in function syntax, database features, OS-level interfaces, Internet interfaces, and compiling/profiling/debugging. All references are fully annotated and illustrated with example source code that runs from a couple of lines to a couple of pages. In lock step with competing scripting languages, Python is extensible and embeddable in C and C++, and with blitzkrieg efficiency, Beazley summarizes these crucial practical issues in the final 30 pages. Python users who are tired of chasing questions through hyperlinked online documents will benefit from the expansive random-access index. Python the book captures the orderliness of Python the language. Beazley begins with an 86-page précis of Python in the fashion of Kernighan and Ritchie: too brief for a newbie tutorial but enough to propel old hands into a scripting language that aspires to the elegance of a compiled language. Indeed, it is a byte-compiling language. The line bytecode=compile("some_python_script",'','exec')) creates 'bytecode' as a token executed by exec bytecode. But a five-minute investigation through Beazley's book does not describe how 'bytecode' can be written into a separate executable file. If writing the byte-compiled code to a file is not possible, Python suffers from the limitations of other scripting languages: the executable is the source and cannot be hidden from the user, at least not without some difficulty. Despite its extensibility, embeddability, and pleasing architecture, Python is like other scripting languages: appropriate for solving small nonproprietary problems. Those familiar with more established scriptors like Perl may ask, "Why Python?" Unlike Perl, Python is a product of the fully object-oriented (OO) era, and its constructs reflect design principles that aspire beyond keystroke shortcuts of the succinct-but-often-arcane Perl. Python creator Guido van Rossum cleansed Perl's idiosyncracies and objectified basic data structure, data manipulations, and I/O. With Python, OO is so intrinsic that learning Python is equivalent to learning OO. The same cannot be said of Perl. Unfortunately, comparisons with other languages are missing from Beazley's book. Van Rossum, in an embarrassingly self-serving foreword, preemptively asserts that we readers need "neither evangelizing nor proselytizing"--after all, we already own the book--but we do need galvanizing and we don't find it. Specifically, we need a response to the oft-repeated wisdom that new computer languages are only worth learning if they teach us to organize our thinking along new lines. Scripting languages, however, are for quick and dirty projects: quick to write, easy to hack, and ultimately disposable. The essential tension created by van Rossum and friends is between the elegance of object-oriented principles and the utility of a quick-hacked script. Sadly, the tension remains unresolved in Beazley's reference. There is little to convince us that Python has earned its place in the firmament by changing our thinking. But Beazley has given us much to get us going if we have already taken the leap of faith. --Peter Leopold 4.5 58 3

Review of 3rd edition

Good points: * Much-improved readability The font, layout, etc. are all much better than in previous editions. * Lengthy coverage of important modules Especially: optparse, logging, doctest, and unittest. * Excellent tutorial for programmers This (chapter 1) is the best I've seen -- very clear and succinct. Give it to anyone wanting to pick up Python fast. * Has all the necessities. Good index, good explanations of language usage, etc. All standard modules are at least mentioned, and all useful ones are covered. Bad points: * Reference section says very little that is not in the Web docs The Nutshell book documents each function of a module with an explanation of how to use it and what to watch out for. It often provides a useful example. Beazley, on the other hand, has mostly restated the web docs, which are free. * Lacks future feature coverage Previous editions of this book stated the version of Python covered on the cover. This book covers 2.4, but you have to open it to find that out. That would be a minor point, except that it has absolutely nothing about what to expect in 2.5. The Nutshell, on the other hand, claims to cover only one version but actually reveals a great deal of what to expect in the next. Beazley could have at least mentioned relative imports, return-from-yield, and anything deprecated. * Important points can be difficult to find I had to look in several places before I finally learned what ellipsis is for in slicing. Summary: This book does not add much value beyond the web docs. However, if you need a hard-copy reference for Python2.4, this is your only option, and it's not a bad one. It's very well-organized and very easy to read. 5

python essential reference is good

Filled with examples and a comprehensive index, it's a must-have for python programmers. 5

The single most useful Python book I have found

This is an excellant book for the person who is acquainted with Python but needs to look up details or, especially, for someone with a good background in programming languages who wants to learn Python. Expertise in a single programming language isn't necessarily enough background - familiarity with different types of programming language and in particular with object-oriented programming is necessary. This book packs a great deal of information into a compact format. It contains numerous tables and charts, attractively laid out and well organized. The author's explanations are lucid. It contains sufficient detail to be useful as a reference manual, but also provides an introduction to and overview of each topic. If you already know Python well and just need to look up details, and you always have access to the on-line reference manuals, you don't need this book. For anyone else, it is extremely useful. As an experienced programmer, I found the O'Reilly introductory book "Learning Python" rather slow going. This book was just right for learning Python and continues to be useful as a reference. Highly recommended. 0596007973 0596002815 0596001886 1590593561 1590593715 0672328623_us 1149507414000 us unread

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0613910885 Python for the World Wide Web Visual QuickStart Guide (Visual QuickStart Guides) Book Chris Fehily October, 2001 Rebound by Sagebrush http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0613910885.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0613910885.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0613910885.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $32.70 Computer Bks - Languages / Programming Computers Internet - Web Site Design Programming - Object Oriented Programming Programming Languages - General Hardcover 1 0613910885 This item is currently not available. 0613910885_us 1149507458000 us unread

0130923613 Python How to Program (With CD-ROM) Book Harvey M. Deitel Paul J. Deitel Jonathan P. Liperi Ben Wiedermann 04 February, 2002 Prentice Hall http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0130923613.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0130923613.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0130923613.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $102.00 $91.03 $14.98 $23.00 126388 108YRTZMH9PCY Computer Bks - Languages / Programming Computer Books: General Computer Networks Computer Programming Languages Computers Computers - Languages / Programming Programming - Object Oriented Programming Programming Languages - General Programming Languages - Python Python (Computer program langu Python (Computer program language) Computers / Programming Languages / General Python (Computer language) Paperback 1 0130923613 Usually ships in 6 to 11 days 3.0 10 4

Aging but excellent book

This book on Python is very complete and at the time it was published was better than any other book on Python. It is still an excellent book and has more information than any other Python book on the market. I have used the book as my major reference work for several years. For non-GUI programming you will find most of your questions answered in this book. The general tips on structure and theory of programming are particularly useful for people who do not have a formal education and degree in computer science. I hope the authors will come out with a new edition that heavily covers newer GUI options including wxPython. If you are new to Python this book is your best option although there have been some changes in Python since this book was published. If you are familiar with Python it can still be a valuable resource for you. If you have a formal education in computer science and also know the peculiarities of Python then perhaps several more specialized books on particular facets of the language and its uses would be more appropriate for you. GUI programming is not covered sufficiently in this book to eliminate your need for another book focused specifically on the GUI of your choice. I anxiously await the publication of the book on the wxPython GUI which has been delayed several times and is now due by March of 2006. 2

Better name it The Python Bible

Bibles, in the profane sense of the word, are huge books filled with clutter and not meaningful structure, which attempt to cover way more than they should. This is a clear example. It might be worth a quick look to a particular chapter, just to get a quick grasp of a particular area like XML, pygame, tkinter, etc. But definitely, this is not the book a beginner should use to learn the language, because as many said before, it seems to be a blind translation from their also crippled Java book. This reader, who cherished their C/C++ book couldn't be more dissappointed. 1

Disappointment

I purchased Deitel & Deitel's C++ How to Program book long ago, and found it to be comprehensive and extrordinarily helpful. When I picked up Python How to Program, I expected the same incredible experience. Instead, I was sorely disappointed by their complete lack of Pythonic thinking. It seems as if they took one of their other How to Program books and ran a code converter across it to migrate it to Python. As a previous reviewer pointed out, some of the examples are horrificly implemented, a clear case of programming in Python with the "C/C++ mentality." The examples seemed fun, but no amount of fun can compensate for the fact that this book teaches you nothing about how to truely be a Python programmer. Anyone can read the lexical syntax descriptions on the python.org website and code the examples in this book. It gives me the feeling that Harvey Deitel did not learn Python for any reason other than to write an expensive book about it, and has no idea how to actually use the language. 0130284173 0130284181 0596002815 0596007973 0596000855 0130923613_us 1149507457000 us unread

0596100469 Python in a Nutshell (In a Nutshell (O'Reilly)) Book Alex Martelli 01 July, 2006 O'Reilly Media, Inc. http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0596100469.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0596100469.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0596100469.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $39.99 $25.19 283419 Computers Computers - Languages / Programming Operating Systems - Linux Operating Systems - UNIX Programming Languages - CGI, Javascript, Perl, VBScript Programming Languages - Python Computers / Programming Languages / CGI, JavaScript, Perl, VBScript Python, Jython, Tkinter, Twisted Paperback 1 0596100469 Not yet released. 4.5 23 4

Good book to learn and as a reference

For someone who knows other programming languages this is a great book to quickly get a feel for the language and to start trying it out. The book only covers up to Python 2.2 while the current standard is up to 2.4.2, so there are a few things that are a little different. However, I have found that the differences are not major and can be supplemented by the python help system (normally installed on your system along with the interpreter). I also use this book extensively as a reference, especially for all the associated libraries. 5

Excellent

All what you would expect from the title : very complete even if not exhaustive coverage of the language and its main libraries, excellent explanations... Not good as an introduction to the language unless you're already familiar with various programming language, but the ultimate reference to keep under your pillow 5

For the experienced Pythoneer wanting more detail

Python in a nutshell is an excellent reference for the experienced Python programmer. Alex Martelli does a wonderful job focusing on the book's goal of being a concise reference to important select portions of the Python language. His coverage of complex topics is a well balanced blend of written explanation and code examples. The book will be too advanced for newcomers to Python as well as beginning programmers, but for those looking to polish their Python skills this book is a real gem. Like the other Nutshell books from O'Reilly, Python in a Nutshell is valuable as a desk reference. It has an excellent index that makes finding topics easy. Experienced programmers will appreciate the lack of "fluff" as each topic is explained efficiently. Martelli goes into detail where it is needed most. For example the coverage of Python's exception mechanisms is quite thorough and includes an insightful section on error-checking strategies. However, the coverage of some topics may be considered too cursory. I will need to search for more on Python's struct module as the roughly 2 pages on module struct, without any examples, left me wondering just how and why I'd need this module. This was the exception, rather than the rule, though. Martelli doesn't try to cover too much in this book and topics deemed too remedial or too tangential are noted by references to further reading. This is why I consider Python in a Nutshell to be an excellent reference while designing and coding. Alex Martelli's writing style reflects what must be a very deep knowledge of the Python language. I get the feeling he knows Python at the most basic level which is reflected in his concise explanation of topics. Code examples are used sparingly throughout the book, mostly when including them enhances or augments the topic's explanation. I found the book filled with Pythonic gems: knowledgeable reflections on why one idiom is better implemented one way than another way. I found the section on Optimization especially enlightening. It contains Python specific optimization techniques I've not seen in other Python books, like why there are big-O performance gains achieved by avoiding string concatenation in preference to list operations or using operator % for string formatting. In general I was left feeling like I had a glimpse of how Python programming *should* be done. The preface of the book includes an explanation that the book is meant for those with prior Python experience and/or experience developing in other languages. There is little coverage of the Python basics, except for the first few chapters which will help bring the reader up to speed quickly. I found the lack of review of the basics a refreshing diversion from the remedial-first-section-with-huge-code-listings pattern found in so many other programming books. Alex Martelli is so good at explaining how and why Python works the way it does that profuse code examples would be a distraction anyway. However, I think I've been collecting Python 'how' and 'why' questions for years now and was ready to have those questions answered. A newcomer to the language might not be as primed as I was and therefore might not appreciate Alex Martelli's obvious Python Zen. I expect to keep Python in a nutshell close at hand during all stages of development with Python. Alex Martelli has created an excellent reference that doesn't try to do too much but does achieve the goal of covering the most important parts of Python. Like Python in general, Martelli's writing style is concise, clear and readable. His book includes an insider's explanations of how best to program with Python. This book is a valuable reference for experienced programmers ready to take their Python skills to the next level. 0596002815 0596007973 0596000855 0596009402 1590593561 0596100469_us 1149507414000 us unread

0553293575 PYTHON ISLE (Doc Savage) Book Kenneth Robeson 01 September, 1991 Bantam http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0553293575.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0553293575.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0553293575.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $4.50 $3.44 $11.75 $9.99 1279372 Fiction Fiction - Science Fiction Science Fiction - General Non-Classifiable Mass Market Paperback 1 0553293575 This item is currently not available. 0553293575_us 1149507586000 us unread

0595136737 Python Library Reference (Open Source Library) Book Guido Van Rossum November, 2000 Iuniverse Inc http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0595136737.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0595136737.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0595136737.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $40.95 $60.29 4033843 13AYZBBQ0LFNL Computer Bks - Languages / Programming Computer Books: Languages Computers Programming - General Programming - Object Oriented Programming Programming Languages - General Paperback 1 0595136737 This item is currently not available. 3.0 1 3

Extended, but dry

This library reference is very extended, up-to-date and cover every aspects of Python's modules ( string, regular expressions, ...). The division in themes ( Maths, Internet, ...) and in order of usefulness makes it easy to learn and get important information. The index and the table of contents make it very easy to find the appropriate method to perform a particular task. In addition, the style is concise and the presentation clear.Nevertheless, this is only a reference : The examples are rare and insufficient to learn efficiently the language, unless you need'nt examples to learn all about a new language.Therefore, this book should be used as a reminder or a quick finder, i.e. a reference book. 0595136737_us 1149507501000 us unread

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0773732136 Python Play and Other Recipes for Fun: And Other Recipes for Fun : Poems Book Robert Heidbreder Karen Patkau March, 2000 Fitzhenry & Whiteside Limited http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0773732136.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0773732136.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0773732136.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $14.95 $14.95 $8.91 $9.79 4133142 Children's 4-8 - Fiction - General Children's poetry, Canadian Children: Grades 3-4 General Juvenile Nonfiction Juvenile poetry Play Poetry Poetry - General Hardcover 1 0773732136 Special Order 0773732136_us 1149507501000 us unread

0596009402 Python Pocket Reference (Pocket Reference (O'Reilly)) Book Mark Lutz 24 February, 2005 O'Reilly Media, Inc. http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0596009402.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0596009402.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0596009402.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $9.95 $9.95 $6.50 $9.95 $5.85 135953 3KOFTDDD5G95Y 15ND45SPUBCTE Computer Books: Languages Computers Computers - Languages / Programming Programming Languages - General Programming Languages - Python Python (Computer program language) Computers / Programming Languages / General Python 2.4, Object Oriented, Programming Lanugage Paperback 1 0596009402 Usually ships in 24 hours 4.0 6 4

An Excellent Pocket Reference

I've not been too pleased with O'Reilly's Python material in general; it tends to be verbose and needlessly abstruse, but the Python Pocket Reference has proven itself an exception. In ~150 pages, Mark Lutz manages to deliver an informative reference for the 2.4 version of the Python language, which I find myself referring to rather often. It's concise, well-organized, and easy to use. I've found this reference an invaluable tool in learning the Python language, as well. The clarity of this reference will, doubtless, be a boon to any Python programmer. 5

Object achieved

While this is not the tool for learning Python, it is a valuable reference. It is amazing how much information that is packed into this small format. Toss it into your laptop bag for a quick reference, particularly since the third edition contains an index and covers Python 2.4. With so many useful applications using Python as a macro language (e.g. Testmaker), this handy reference will earn its keep. I wonder if O'Reilly has a Ruby on the way, since they have mastered the format. Of course, there is always the online documentation, if you are online. 4

Good ref

This is the third edition of the book. Content structure: <ul> <li> The first few pages summarize how to run Python (command line args, environment variables, etc). <li> The next 80 pages describe the core language itself (syntax, builtin types and functions, builtin class attributes, etc). <li> The following 50 pages describe the most essential modules of the Python standard library. <li> Finally, 5 pages summarise essential Python idioms and hints, and the 10 page index. </ul> The biggest changes from the 2nd edition are: <ul> <li> the index, which according to 2nd ed reviews was sorrily missed, <li> the significant additions (20 pages worth) to the core section <li> coverage of Python 2.4. </ul> The first (and possibly only important) question that comes to mind is, given the high quality of the online documentation that comes with standard Python, is the book worth having? The big attraction of the book is its coverage of the core language, in an easy to understand and compact "reference" style. Contrast this to the online version of the "Python Language Reference". Not only is the latter a full rather than a summary reference, but it is written in a comparatively terse style. Another advantage of the "pocket reference" is that you don't have to wade through a lot of information to find what you need - it's the bare bones, easily accessible from index. The coverage of some of the most important standard modules is interesting but I don't think it offers much over the online docs. Actually, I would even replace those 50 pages with more extensive coverage of the core language, including class hierarchy diagrams (e.g. for exceptions), perhaps a table indicating major changes between Python versions, reference material for the unit testing, debugging and distribution modules. Interestingly, the http://www.python.org/doc page links to a "Quick Reference" in HTML format that is quite comprehensive, very similar in coverage to the book, but with all the advantages of being in electronic format. The book seems slightly better structured. So the decision of buying the book might rely solely on whether or not you prefer to use index - fingers - paper vs search - click - screen. And whether you can wait for the next paperback edition to cover new Python language features as they come out. The author achieves his goal: a reference in pocket format. The important content you would expect from a pocket format is there, it is well categorized and well indexed. If you are looking for a good compact reference summary of the Python language in paper format, this book should satisfy you. 0596002815 0596007973 0596001886 0596000855 0596003749 0596009402_us 1149507414000 us unread

1598631586 Python Power!: The Comprehensive Guide (Comprehensive Guides) Book Dimitry Dukhovny 10 October, 2006 Course Technology PTR http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1598631586.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1598631586.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1598631586.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $34.99 $22.04 556276 Computer Bks - Languages / Programming Computer Books: Languages Computers Computers - Languages / Programming Programming - General Programming - Object Oriented Programming Computers / Programming / General Paperback 1 1598631586 Not yet released. 1598631586_us 1149507414000 us unread

1592000738 Python Programming for the Absolute Beginner (Absolute Beginner) Book Michael Dawson 11 August, 2003 Course Technology PTR http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1592000738.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1592000738.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1592000738.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $29.99 $18.89 $15.95 $29.99 66302 YKYYVKL1853G Computer Books: Languages Computers Computers - Languages / Programming Programming - General Programming Languages - Python Computers / Programming / General Paperback 1 1592000738 Usually ships in 10 to 14 days 082039500737 4.5 12 5

This book deserves 10 Stars!

Years ago I wanted to learn programming, but all the books about programming were as interesting as my math school books so I lost the will to learn until I saw this book. I couldn't put it away! It's fun, interesting, and you will be up all night and coding like mad in very short time! If you want to learn how to program get this book. Don't even look at the others, get this one! The best programming book for beginners! 5

Excellant way to learn Python.

I learned Python in three months using this book. I don't usually post reviews but felt the need to do so because of another reviewer's claim that this book is only for windows users. The cd that comes with this book is unfortunately for windows users but the chapter lessons and challenges work for any operating system. In fact, I used this book exclusively under linux and OS X. 4

Caught by Python through Michael

This book is structured to trap the abosulte beginner. You get results from the very beginnig through a very clear way to provide first knowledge in programming. It's the first time a subject so tough as programming a language seems so atractive. 0596002815 0201748843 0596007973 0201709384 1584502584 1592000738_us 1149507423000 us unread

1598631128 Python Programming for the Absolute Beginner, Second Edition (For the Absolute Beginner) Book Michael Dawson 08 November, 2005 Course Technology PTR http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1598631128.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1598631128.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1598631128.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $29.99 $18.89 $18.90 $29.99 $17.00 87603 15ND45SPUBCTE Computer Bks - Languages / Programming Computer Books: Languages Computers Computers - Languages / Programming Programming - General Programming Languages - Python Python (Computer program language) Computers / Programming / General Paperback 1 1598631128 Usually ships in 24 hours 4.0 2 5

Great for Teaching Kids

I have been using this to teach my nephew Python. It is a great place to start as it gets very quickly to something visual to keep kids interested, while at the same time covering lots of useful ideas and concepts. If you want to show a beginner how quickly they can actually produce a real game with their own flavor on it, this is the book. 3

Worth the price however not as good as others.

This book is definatley worth the price (18 bucks) however, if you want to get a solid foundation in Python, I would suggest skipping over this book entirely and reading; "Learning Python" by Mark Lutz and David Ascher published by: Oreilly. This book assumes that the reader has absolutely no knowledge of computer programming just as they claim. It was a little too basic for my taste and I am going to assume that it is too basic even for a lot of beginning programmers. I am giving it 3 stars because I believe that any novice programmer will comfortably pick up the fundamentals of Python programming from this book. On the same note, I'm giving it only 3 stars because this book has some very hard competition such as the book that I mention earlier in this review. If you truly believe that you will learn the fundamentals of Python programming a lot better by developing rudamentary video games and you don't mind redundant elementary step by step basic instructions than this book is definetly for you. However, if you want to get a good solid foundation in Python programming from a book that does not assume you are a 6th grade bedroom junkie, than maybe you should look elsewhere (as in the Oreilly book mentioned earlier). I did not find any editing errors in this book and it seems to be organized quite well. 159059519X 1887902996 0321293886 0596002815 0596000855 1598631128_us 1149507414000 us unread

1565926218 Python Programming On Win32 : Help for Windows Programmers Book Mark Hammond Andy Robinson January, 2000 O'Reilly Media, Inc. http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1565926218.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1565926218.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1565926218.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $34.95 $24.74 $89.90 226404 293BXS6LPSG5B 3NEI53N5NN2NX 12QMUFII6951W Computer Bks - Languages / Programming Computer Books: Languages Computer Programming Languages Computers Computers - Languages / Programming Microcomputer Operating Environments Microsoft Win32 Programming - Object Oriented Programming Programming Languages - General Programming Languages - Python Python (Computer language) Python (Computer program langu Python (Computer program language) Computers / Programming Languages / CGI, JavaScript, Perl, VBScript High level programming languages Microsoft Windows Python, Win32, Windows, application development Paperback 1 1565926218 This item is currently not available. Python Programming on Win32 zeroes in on the strengths of the Python programming language for the Windows platform. If you would like to use Python on Windows with Office 2000, this book is a perfect choice for getting started. While it's not an introduction to Python programming itself, the book does present some basic Python examples. (The authors do provide an impressive list of real-world projects that have used Python successfully, including an application at NASA and a major Web search engine.) In lieu of a general language tour, this book centers on practical tips and examples for using Python on Windows, beginning with downloading and installing the free Python package. The most useful examples here present a Python library for general accounting objects. You'll learn how to write COM servers in Python and then how to script them in Visual Basic (used here to build user interfaces) and how to control Word and Excel with OLE Automation in Python. One standout example looks at building and printing accounting reports in Office 2000 using Python as the script language. Later sections look at other possibilities, including how to use Python's support for MFC to build user interfaces. A notable section here looks at Windows NT system administration in Python. Because of its built-in support for dictionaries, Python is a natural fit for working with users, groups, permissions, and the like. While Python's initial habitat may be Unix, Python Programming on Win32 shows that this powerful and increasingly popular object-oriented language may find its next home on Windows. Provided you have some previous exposure to the language, this book is an excellent resource for using Python in a Windows setting. --Richard Dragan Topics covered: Python programming quick-start, Windows Python basics, Python support for COM/DCOM, the Pythonwin editor, Office 2000 scripting, Windows NT administration and system programming, Python MFC programming, and Active Scripting. 4.0 7 3

Python and Win32 for Pinheads

If you know nothing about Python, Visual Basic, scripting languages, Win32 API, MFC, COM, active scripting, Windows Networking and NT administration, then after you've read this book you'll get some very general idea of what these all are about: this book covers them all, as well as many other things. But whenever it comes to tell you something really interesting, authors just say: "well, it's out of the scope of this book, so let's stop here..."However, there are things this book does not cover. For instance, I thought scripting languages are a handy tool for text processing, but throughout this book I encountered only one mention of regular expressions - in the context of filtering file names, and you won't find regular expressions in the Index. From 10-page Chapter "Working with Email" you'll learn what SMTP and POP3 stand for, and from 15-page Appendix(!) "Threads" you'll learn that Python has something to do with threads, and fairly much about COM threading model.Information in this 650-page book can fit a dozen-page article. Most of all this book looks like a slide show for marketing, trying to convince them that Python is the answer to all questions. And most of the time it sounds like: "It's easy, we won't tell you exactly what and how, but for smart guys like us who can read man pages, it's very easy." 3

Not for learning Python or programmin on Win32

This books is neither a Python tutorial book nor a Windows programming book. The title of this book greatly mis-represents the contents. If you are not a Windows COM programmer who's trying to learn Python or are trying develop Python applications on other platforms, please look for other Python books. 4

Very good, misses a few spots

Python is the best choice for people who want to implement COM in the software they develop - mostly due to its clear structure and object - oriented nature. This is where this book mostly comes.This book is well-written, practical-oriented and ideal for the newbie programmer who has already some idea over Python (O'Reilly's 'Learning Python' is the best place to start).However, even experienced programmers need it because it provides a set of useful examples for rapid prototyping and reuse components.It misses a few spots - First, you can't find much help on working on GUIs - and second (and most important) SWIG does not get the attention it deserves - it is just mentioned.Finally, if you use Python in Win32 - or if you cannot decide what kind of COM solution you wish to develop - DO NOT CONSIDER TAKING A STEP WITHOUT THIS BOOK ! 0596007973 0596002815 0596000855 0596001886 1590593715 1565926218_us 1149507501000 us unread

0130409561 Python Programming Patterns Book Thomas W. Christopher 23 October, 2001 Prentice Hall PTR http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0130409561.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0130409561.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0130409561.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $44.99 $2.55 $23.98 702383 Computer Bks - Languages / Programming Computer Books: General Computers Computers - Languages / Programming Object-Oriented Programming Programming - Object Oriented Programming Programming Languages - General Python (Computer program langu Python (Computer program language) Computers / Programming Languages / General Paperback 1 0130409561 This item is currently not available. 076092016052 3.0 9 5

I use the book quite often as a reference

Even though the book is light on true examination of the 20 object oriented patterns it contains, it is a great python book. I use the book as a reference and I must tell you that I feel that you get your moneys worth with this book, thus it gets 5 stars... 4

I don't understand the confusion

Alot of discussion has focused on the title of the book. So, it's not a classic "design patterns" book but if you take a second to look at the table of contents you'll figure that out pretty fast. The introduction even states the following in a section titled, "What the Book is Not" - "... this book cannot be a hard-core object-oriented design patterns book." I don't think that's a problem with this book.What I think this book does well is cover alot of ground on writing python with some pretty good examples that go beyond the usual intro book stuff. There is talk of threads, regular expressions, abstract data types, modules etc... stuff you need to do real work but that usually gets left out. To me this is really a kind of python for programmers type book with some very good examples. If that's what you're looking for then check out the table of contents. I liked it. 5

Python Engineering...

Many of the reviewers here seem rightly disappointed that Python Programming Patterns is not a Design Patterns book rewritten with Python source examples. When I bought this I was expecting something similar, and was at first dismayed that PPP wasn't that book. But as I started to read through it, I realized that this was the first book I'd seen which actually focused on *Engineering* solid and comprehensive solutions in Python. If you want to know how to write a 'Hello Python' application, look elsewhere. For all the rest of us needing some insight into how best to apply Python to problems of any complexity, there is no more appropriate book out there. 1590593715 0321112547 0596007973 0735710902 1590593561 0130409561_us 1149507458000 us unread

0201616165 Python Programming with the Java Class Libraries: A Tutorial for Building Web and Enterprise Applications Book Richard Hightower 28 June, 2002 Addison-Wesley Professional http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0201616165.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0201616165.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0201616165.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $49.99 $6.57 $14.94 258468 1Q6TJVIFANDA0 Application software Computer Bks - Languages / Programming Computer Books: General Computer Networks Computer Programming Languages Computers Computers - Languages / Programming Development Java (Computer program languag Java (Computer program language) Programming - Object Oriented Programming Programming Languages - General Programming Languages - Java Python (Computer program langu Python (Computer program language) Computers / Programming Languages / General Paperback 1 0201616165 This item is currently not available. 785342616163 4.0 5 4

Very nice

The content of this book is excellent. I am a novice jython programmer and have been playing with jython for about three years. I have tried numerous tutorials and even have obtained jython books. This one is the best so far. It covers things I did not know existed in jython. The presentation of material is logical and follows a nice gradient of complexity. My only peeves are that the examples are sometimes erroneous and that my book did not come with the examples on disk. 5

I use this book as a reference

Not only did I write this book. I also use it for a reference. I find it quite handy. 3

Very rough, distracting code samples but still worth a look

I've been banging around in this book for a few days now and feel compelled to let the potential buyers know a couple things if they are considering this book:1) The code samples are atrocious but well documented. The indenting got fouled up on many of the soucrce code samples (typestting problem?) so as to confuse a python/jython novice like me. The author will occassionally show you a bit of source code and then show you output from the execution of what is clearly a different source file. This is very distracting and if I didn't already have some inkling of how Jython works I'd really have a hard time with this book. Sure seems a shame becuase the explanations of the source code are more complete than you'll find an a typical intro book and this is really very helpful in tracking down the author's/typsetters errors and getting the reader REALLY familiar with the inner workings of Jython. The Sample files on the author's website do help clear up the code errors in most cases.2) Bear in mind that the author goes out of his way to familiarize you with the basics of Python, so he can get to the Java integration. For this reason the reader is really getting an introduction to Jython. This is ok since the author points this out in the opening of the book and guides you to pertinant sections if you have experience with Python, C++, Java or OOAD in general.Had I to do it over again I probably would wait for a second edition with the code errors corrected. But if you really need a good low level intro to Python, this book, warts and all, has been more valuable than other titles that introduce the language. I attribute this to the really detailed 'plain english' explanations of the code. To be fair I can't comment on the Java integration portions (the sample code or the writing) as I'm just finishing chapter 6, so I'm still learning about jython itself). 0735711119 0596002475 0596007973 1590593715 0596007124 0201616165_us 1149507457000 us unread

1887902996 Python Programming: An Introduction to Computer Science Book John M. Zelle December, 2003 Franklin Beedle & Associates http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1887902996.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1887902996.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1887902996.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $40.00 $28.00 $18.97 $27.80 20542 20ZFUO3D1TV7I 3BSOU1KKMMDFA 15ND45SPUBCTE Computer Books: Languages Computers - Languages / Programming Programming Languages - General Programming Languages - Python Python (Computer program langu Python (Computer program language) Paperback 1 1887902996 Usually ships in 24 hours 4.5 10 4

Good for beginners

This book provides the knowledge of programming in an easy to learn format. Good for beginning programmers, however it is very basic and does not cover any advanced topics in any way. The book is really good for a first-time programmer, however I would not recommend it as a Python resource for anybody with previous programming experience. One major drawback of the book is that it does not provide answers or any other form of solution to the chapter-end questions. 5

Wonderful: The best CS1 textbook I've ever seen

I just wrapped up teaching a semester CS1 course using Zelle's book. I hope I never have to use another book besides this, because this text is simply fantastic. This was the third version of CS1 I've taught, and the first using Python instead of C. The use of Python definitely contributed to the smashing success of this class (as did an exceptionally strong group of students), but much of the credit must go to this book. Honestly, Zelle just nailed it. The examples are illustrative and convincing: his is one of the few books that manages to avoid the trap of silly and unreal examples that therefore provide no context for a student. His writing is crystal clear and very well organized, replete with very helpful diagrams and illustrative examples (did I mention the examples?), and he has obviously paid a lot of attention to the aspects of programming that students find most difficult. And the exercises: wow. This is the first time I haven't felt the need to write my own (although I did anyway, because it's fun). They are fair but challenging (sometimes very), and for those of us on the teaching end, you'll be happy to know that the instructor's resources come with _complete_ sets of working solutions to all of the exercises. Three chapters stand out in particular. First is the chapter on graphics (Ch. 5). Students love graphics, and Zelle has included a very nice wrapper on top of the TKinter library, which makes for a GUI package that students can actually use. Second, there's the final chapter that actually introduces recursion and some of the interesting algorithms from the science (searching/sorting, permutations, etc.). I had a lot of fun demonstrating the difference between sorting /usr/share/dict/words with insertion sort (about 6 days) and merge sort (about 6 seconds). But possibly the best chapter is one I almost skipped: the chapter on software development, which is centered around a case study development of a "racquetball" simulation. At the last minute, I decided to use this chapter as the jumping off point for integrating the ideas we'd seen up to mid-term into real software development. I am convinced that this made the class. Now there are a couple of things you might want to add as an instructor: The main one is the fact that Python is such a high-level language, with so much hand-holding built in, that I'm worried that students going on to later CS classes in other languages could get a nasty surprise. I finished up my class with a primer on languages with static type systems, in which you don't have wonderful Pythony things like string/list slicing, built-in hashtables, etc. In a second edition of this book, I'd like to see another chapter on this. Second is a very small quibble, and really just boils down to a difference with Zelle about the order in which I like to teach this material. I ended up using every chapter in the book, but in the order 2,3,4,7,8,6,9,11,5,10,12,13. As yet another thing I love about this book, the chapters are independent enough from each other, that I was able to do this with only careful selection of the sections. Actually the book lends itself very well to alternative orderings. In short, I simply have nothing bad to say about this book, and lots of good. Zelle hit this one out of the park. Everybody should be using it. 2

Not bad, but disorganized and lacking needed detail at the end

As a student who has been assigned this book I have found it frustrating to use for the most part. Most of the text deals with the intro to computer science but in terms of helping to actually use python and solve the programming problems at the end of each chapter it has been very frustrating. There is no list of new methods at the end of each chapter and the appendix is light on details. I find myself consulting the internet and other texts frequently. I suppose as an introduction to computer science text this book is well written, but the fact is that most of a student's grade is probably going to come from actual programming assignments and this book is almost entirely useless as a reference for when I get stuck. This is especially troublesome in the latter chapters as the programming problems get more complex. I now find myself spending hours in trial and error approaches when what I really want is a prominent list of methods and some detailed examples that are more relevent to the programming problems. I have also found that most of the programming problems ask me to modify an example program from the chapter but often the level of detail in the development of the example program is insufficient for a clear understanding of how the example program works. This also gets worse the farther along I get. This book is more suited to a course that is mainly intro to computer science and a little programming and not as in the class I am in, light on computer science and several programming problems each week. 1592000738 0596002815 159059519X 0596007973 1590593715 1887902996_us 1149507423000 us unread

0072123907 Python Programming: From the Ground Up Book Martin C. Brown July, 2000 Mcgraw-Hill Osborne Media http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0072123907.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0072123907.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0072123907.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $39.99 4213200 Computer Books: General Computers Programming - General High level programming languages Object-oriented programming (OOP) Hardcover 0072123907 This item is currently not available. 0072123907_us 1149507501000 us unread

0441692508 Python Project Book Victor Canning 1967 Charter http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0441692508.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0441692508.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0441692508.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $0.08 $0.08 Paperback 0441692508 This item is currently not available. 0441692508_us 1149507595000 us unread

0595136680 Python Reference Manual Book Guido Van Rossum December, 2000 Iuniverse Inc http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0595136680.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0595136680.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0595136680.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $12.95 3916958 Computer Bks - Languages / Programming Computer Books: Languages Computers Programming - General Programming - Object Oriented Programming Programming Languages - General Paperback 1 0595136680 This item is currently not available. 0595136680_us 1149507501000 us unread

1583483748 Python Reference Manual: February 19, 1999, Release 1.5.2 (Open Source Library) Book Guido Van Rossum Fred L., Jr. Drake February, 1999 iUniverse.com http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1583483748.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1583483748.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1583483748.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $12.95 $2.00 $4.45 1376219 Computer Bks - Languages / Programming Programming Languages - General Paperback 1 1583483748 This item is currently not available. 4.0 1 4

As official as it gets...

Well, like it says, this book is exactly the same as the online 1.5.2 documentation (which you should be familiar with), just printed out. None of the information is new. If reading the documenation on screen is fine for you there is no reason to buy this book, but if like me, you find having to use up half your screen for a browser window is annoying, you'll find it useful. I gave it four stars because it's so cheap (sure beats printing it all out!) Warning: this is a technical document, not a tutorial. If you're looking for a "Learn Python the E-Z way" sort of book you should look elsewhere. Also, this book covers the core of Python - the built-in types and syntax - but _not_ the modules. Anything you have to import to use will not be in here... 1583483748_us 1149507534000 us unread

3540294155 Python Scripting for Computational Science (Texts in Computational Science and Engineering) Book Hans Petter Langtangen 21 December, 2005 Springer http://images.amazon.com/images/P/3540294155.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/3540294155.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/3540294155.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $69.95 $69.95 $60.19 $60.19 231196 Applied Mathematical Physics Mathematics Programming - Software Development Science Science/Mathematics Mathematics / Applied Python computational experiments computational science gluing applications graphical user interfaces multi-language programming scientific computing scripting text processing Hardcover 1 3540294155 Usually ships in 24 hours 4.0 2 3

Python for Science Academics and Engineers, NOT programmers

I bought this book as an experienced programmer and Unix user expecting more of a "Numerical Recepies in Python" emphasis on the efficient implementation of algorithms which happen to be in Python. I should have paid more attention to the description. This book is really more of a "Grad Student's Guide to Everyday Python Usage". I imagine it would be very valuable to a mathematics Grad student without too much programming or shell experience, looking for an alternative to Matlab. However, there is very little "Computational Science" in this book. Do NOT expect a cookbook of high performance algorithm implementations. The book is a very verbose 700+ pages, all in an unexciting academic LaTeX format. The author works through idiom after idiom for accomplishing different tasks in fairly stand-alone sub-sections without much of a feeling of conceptual "flow" between them. It sort of feels like reading through the author's personal lab notes that he took everytime he learned a new language feature or trick. If you are an experienced programmer, you will quickly get impatient with the verbose presentation that emphasizes idioms and examples instead of fundamental concepts and syntax reference tables. But, if you are an experienced programmer, you are not the target audience for this book. Braddock Gaskill 5

Convincing demonstration of Python's value in science

The author has 2 main goals: 1) To improve the productivity of scientists familiar with specific software systems (especially Matlab, Maple, and Mathematica) by teaching them to "glue" applications together. 2) To advocate Python as the preferred "glue" language. In his own words, "I hope to convince computational scientists having experience with Perl that Python is a preferable alternative, especially for large long-term projects." He has certainly done a creditable job. As an expert in computational differential equations, he neglects neither efficiency nor correctness, while stressing both simplicity and reliability. In this sense, he has done a great service to the Python community. The question is: What justifies the purchase of his book? The answer is: Chapters 4, 9, and 10. Contents: 1. Introduction--26pp Very convincing arguments. 2. Getting Started With Python Scripting--38pp Interesting examples. 3. Basic Python--56pp A too-quick tutorial. Go to python dot org instead. 4. Numerical Computing in Python--48pp Stellar explanations of vectorized array operations. 5. Combining Python with Fortran, C, and C++--36pp Details use of Fortran2Py and SWIG. Mentions many alternatives. 6. Introduction to GUI Programming--70pp Useful examples of Tkinter/pmw widgets. 7. Web Interfaces and CGI Programming--24pp Good source of ideas. 8. Advanced Python--132pp Deep and extensive. Includes: option parsing, regular expressions, data persistence and compression, object-oriented programming, exceptions, generic programming, efficiency. 9. Fortran Programming with NumPy Arrays--32pp All about efficiency and re-use. 10. C and C++ Programming with NumPy Arrays--40pp More about efficiency. NumPy C API, C++ objects, and SCXX. 11. More Advanced GUI Programming--73pp Tedious discussion of both Web and standalone GUIs. BLT, canvas, cgi. 12. Tools and Examples--70pp Excellent examples of PDE solvers, with a powerful GUI, but quite long and tedious. A. Setting up the Required Software Environment--16pp Wonderfully specific installation instructions! B. Elements of Software Engineering--50pp Python's strength! Very practical advice on modularity, documentation, coding style, regression-testing, version-control. Strengths: + Downloadable py4cs package, esp. numpytools module + Great advice everywhere, e.g. CGI checklist, Pythonic programming, and trouble-shooting. + Concrete evidence for most assertions. + Very attractive presentation. Sturdy, high-quality cover, binding and pages. Brief, elegant code fragments (except in Chapter 12). Readable prose. No wasted space. + Available as 5MB pdf file, after purchase of hardcopy. Very nice. + Slides, installation instructions, and errata also at web site. Very professional. My peeves: - Not enough tables to be a useful manual. - On p.428(#7) he points out that handling a raised exception is very slow. However, when I time his example with a positive argument, the try-except version is 20% faster (b/c the if clause is skipped), so he is actually giving bad advice for the general case. Luckily, he contradicts himself later, on page 685: "Exceptions should be used instead of if-else tests." The best advice: Avoid common exceptions in inner loops. - The 10-page index is not as great as it at first seems. (See Martelli's Python in a Nutshell for a better one.) - Pure interface functions should 'raise NotImplementedError', rather than 'return'. - Exceptions should never be trapped mindlessly with 'except:'. That would hide your own SyntaxErrors! - Too many exercises. (It's published as a textbook.) Since there are no answers, the exercises are useless for non-students. (See Lutz's Learning Python for effective exercises with answers.) Overall rating: This contains the best information on numerical programming in Python that I've seen. Though expensive, it could easily be your only Python book, given the excellent online documenation already available. 1590593715 0596007973 0521852870 0596002815 0321112547 3540294155_us 1149507414000 us unread

0596000960 Python Standard Library (Nutshell Handbooks) Book Fredrik Lundh May, 2001 O'Reilly Media, Inc. http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0596000960.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0596000960.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0596000960.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $29.95 $18.87 $6.98 $10.00 188822 KN8EQ6VN19K4 12QMUFII6951W VT6ICK79ECVW Computer Books: General Computer Networks Computer Programming Languages Computers Computers - Languages / Programming Programming Languages - General Programming Languages - Python Computers / Programming Languages / General High level programming languages Python Standard Library Paperback 1 0596000960 Usually ships in 24 hours 636920000969 Ideal for any working Python developer, Fredrik Lundh's Python Standard Library provides an excellent tour of some of the most important modules in today's Python 2.0 standard. Mixing sample code and plenty of expert advice, this title will be indispensable for programmers. The book presents sample script code--written by a frequent contributor to Python newsgroups--for almost 200 of the built-in modules in Python 2.0 and shows how to solve common programming problems in Python. Instead of a function-based reference, you get sample scripts for a wide variety of solutions centering on different Python modules. Early sections look at core modules for working with the operating system, math, and strings, among other functions. Material on Python's excellent support for files and directories will help you master the file system. Explanations of various encryption schemes will let you add security to your Python scripts. Getting Python to multitask with multiple threads comes next, along with getting Python programs to communicate using pipes and signals. After the sample scripts for pickling Python objects to and from files, the book delves into modules that are geared toward today's Internet. First, there's coverage of Python's support for XML, HTML, and SGML, followed by a discussion of its extensive networking support for low-level sockets to high-level Internet protocols, including e-mail and FTP. Sample scripts for e-mail will be really useful for any Python programmer. Later chapters provide coverage of internationalization support in Python and its support for multimedia. The book closes with material on platform-specific modules (which are specific to Unix and/or Windows) as well as modules that are obsolete but necessary to understanding legacy Python code. There's a lot of expertise on display in Python Standard Library. The code does much of the talking in this example-packed text, which is sure to earn its place on any working Python programmer's bookshelf. --Richard Dragan Topics covered: <ul><li>Introduction to the Python 2.0 standard modules <li>Core modules (including modules for operating system functions, string, math, time, and garbage collection) <li>File and directory modules <li>Encryption and security modules <li>Threads, processes, pipes, and signals in Python <li>Persisting Python objects (marshalling and pickling objects) <li>Python modules for XML, HTML, and SGML <li>Modules for e-mail and news support <li>Internet programming with Python (including sockets, a chat example, FTP, SMTP, IMAP, POP, and Telnet) <li>Internationalization support <li>Modules for multimedia support (image and sound files) <li>Data storage in Python (with shelves) <li>Python tools <li>Platform-specific modules (including Unix- and Windows-specific modules) <li>Miscellaneous and legacy Python modules</ul> 3.5 9 3

Has been superceeded

I bought this book in 2004 when I was just starting to learn Python. I never once used it. Its not a bad book, just less useful now than in 2001. The book covers Python 2.0. Anything before 2.2 for any Python book is probably not worth the trouble in 2006 and beyond. When looking for information about a Python module I look in Alex Martelli's Nutshell book(2.2) and the go to the online Library Reference. The nutshell is good for background and examples and the Library Reference brings things up to 2.4. If I am not quite sure what I am looking for then the Python Cookbook (2nd edition) is the most help. Mark Pilgram's Dive into Python is a great, in-depth look at some of the more useful standard library modules. I hope Alex Marelli updates his Nutsehell book for 2.4. There are other good books for learning Python but the Nutshell(O'Reilly), Cookbook(O' Reilly), Library Reference(python.org), and Dive into Python(online or an Apress book) do the best job of covering the standard library, 3

One of the less useful books on Python, for me.

I am a relatively new programmer, who has used only Python and PHP to any significant extent, so ...I have Python Essential Reference (1st. edition) and this book side-by-side on my shelf at work. I use Python Essential Reference and the online module documentation almost equally, and I almost never pick up this book. 3

Interesting, but not necessary

I was hoping for something along the lines of the book the "Standard C Library" book by P.J. Plauger. Unfortunately, this book is nowhere near as complete. Still, there are interesting and useful bits here and there, and it does serve as a decent supplement to the Python library book included in the distribution itself. 0596007973 0596000855 0596002815 0596001886 0596001282 0596000960_us 1149507501000 us unread

1571762027 Python Toolkit Book March, 1998 Walnut Creek http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1571762027.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1571762027.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1571762027.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $39.95 4137202 Computer Books And Software Computers Utilities Hardcover 1571762027 This item is currently not available. 1571762027_us 1149507534000 us unread

1583483756 Python Tutorial (Open Source Library) Book Guido Van Rossum April, 2000 Iuniverse Inc http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1583483756.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1583483756.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1583483756.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $12.95 $5.99 1623412 3C3XPV6L2WVDX Computer Bks - Languages / Programming Computer Books: Languages Computers Programming - General Programming - Object Oriented Programming Programming Languages - General Paperback 1 1583483756 This item is currently not available. 5.0 1 5

An Excellent Introduction

I read this book after having read about 160 pages of the O'Reilly "Learning Python". I found Guido van Rossum's introduction to be very well-written. His examples showed some interesting things that "Learning Python" hadn't, such as the pickle library, and he included a clear but brief treatment of Python exception handling. Possibly not the best for a complete beginner, but if you've seen a little Python before, it does a wonderful job. Be aware that this text is available as part of the standard Python documentation, but having the hard copy is friendlier to the eyes and part of the profit goes back to open source. 1583483756_us 1149507501000 us unread

B000EF5S62 Python vs. S&W.(SPEAK OUT: YOUR FORUM TO PONTIFICATE, PONDER AND PROBE)(Letter to the Editor) : An article from: American Handgunner Ebook Tom Sailers 30 January, 2006 Thomson Gale http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000EF5S62.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000EF5S62.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000EF5S62.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $5.95 $5.95 Digital HTML Available for download now B000EF5S62_us 1149507414000 us unread

0735710902 Python Web Programming Book Steve Holden Steve Holden 08 January, 2002 Sams http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0735710902.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0735710902.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0735710902.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $49.99 $33.99 $25.90 $33.90 $28.45 111467 VT6ICK79ECVW Computer Bks - Languages / Programming Computer Books: General Computer Networks Computer Programming Languages Computers Computers - Languages / Programming Design Internet - Application Development Internet - General Internet programming Programming - Object Oriented Programming Programming Languages - General Programming Languages - Python Python (Computer program langu Python (Computer program language) Web sites Computers / Programming Languages / General Paperback 1 0735710902 Usually ships in 24 hours 752064710905 4.5 14 4

Great book somewhat let down by loss of focus at the end.

After reading positive reviews here and Amazon.co.uk decided to buy the book. There is not much to add to positive points noted by previous reviews but they have omitted one important thing about this book. Up until Chapter 17 the content remains concise, sample code is well documented and explained but chapters 17 and 18 are let downs unless you are willing to do some research on the net and dig out original book code (now residing at holdenweb.com) Chapter 17 that introduces AWeFUL; An Object-Oriented Web Site Framework starts well and what little is written on it, is well written, however, chapter only contains small parts of the framework and at the end of it, you won't have a working site. Several critical modules are omitted and despite of showing final site running on framework, all you'll be seeing are exactly that: the images from author's screen. Similar problems to Chapter 17 are present on Chapter 18, the sample site is dependant on several modules not included in the book and unless you download book code from author's website (and couple addtional Python modules as well), you won't be able to build a working website. On the whole, seems to me that the author has either lost his patience, was running out of space or has tried to write about something he hadn't planned properly and didn't finish on time for book. Also slight disappointment was, especially, exclusion of MySQL from database usage examples. Already 2002 MySQL was widely used as a database backend for websites and excluding it from a book that deals with web development, it is somewhat disappointing. Above flaws may sound worse than they really are, just something you should be aware of if you decide to buy this book and expect high standards throughout. 3

Too much background information

The start of the book provides a good start to understanding python. As the book progresses there are several chapters which do not relate to Python much at all. I was wanting to find out about how you connect to a database from python, but there were at least two chapters on data structures and database concepts that were general, and not really related to connecting to and using a database. A similar problem exists with the intoduction to TCP/IP. Essentially the book takes us through a very low level explanation from the ground up of how TCP/IP and HTTP work. A in depth knowlege of TCP/IP is not nessasarily important to programming a web application, as most of the actual implementation of TCP/IP can be hidden from the programmer. I also feel the author was struggling to find things to say, hence the bloat. Would have been better to have been a thinner book that kept to the subject at hand. 5

Trying to Learn Python? Check this book out!

This book will help anyone trying to learn the Python language. I have used this book many times while writing Python code and it always remains close by! The visual reference is extremely helpful and effective during the learning process and the authors provide just enough written explanation without drowning the reader with a bunch of theory. Can't think of a book I enjoyed or would recommend more!!... 1590593715 0596007973 0596002815 0321112547 0596001282 0735710902_us 1149507457000 us unread

B0006F2VBA Python! python! Book Steve Bernard Miles Chimombo 1992 WASI Publications http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0006F2VBA.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0006F2VBA.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0006F2VBA.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg Unknown Binding B0006F2VBA This item is currently not available. B0006F2VBA_us 1149507586000 us unread

0192722298 Python's Party Book Brian Wildsmith 01 June, 1991 Oxford University Press, USA http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0192722298.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0192722298.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0192722298.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $9.95 $1.48 1614643 Animals Animals - General Children's 4-8 - Picturebooks Children: Grades 1-2 Fiction Holidays & Celebrations - Other, Nonreligious Holidays & Festivals - Other - Non-religious Jungle animals Juvenile Literature Wildsmith, Brian Children's Books | Picture Books Picture books Paperback 1 0192722298 This item is currently not available. 4.0 1 4

A good book that teaches the importance of honesty

This is a really fun book that my mom read me as a child. It has good pictures and the words are not hard for a child to understand. I would recommend this as the perfect book for parents and kids wo like good bedtime stories. 0192722298_us 1149507586000 us unread

007212718X Python: The Complete Reference Book Martin C. Brown 21 September, 2001 Osborne/McGraw-Hill http://images.amazon.com/images/P/007212718X.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/007212718X.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/007212718X.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $49.99 $3.56 $3.60 612377 Computer Bks - Languages / Programming Computer Books: Languages Computer Networks Computer Programming Languages Computers Computers - Languages / Programming Programming - General Programming - Object Oriented Programming Programming Languages - General Paperback 1 007212718X This item is currently not available. 783254034563 3.0 1 3

Nothing special, just a reference

As the title implies, this book is just a reference (covering up to python version 2.0.) The text is understable and provides a central repository of the same material you can get from the official documentation in the web (python.org) The first 140 pages are a tutorial covering the essencials of the language with several samples (these are too trivial in my opinion) following with about 240 pages describing the Python module library (again, the examples are trivial.) There are also some chapters related with the "internals" of Python, but no one is really "deep". Resuming, sadly I think this book (as many in these times) can be easily substituted with the web with little effort. 0596000855 0596007973 007212718X_us 1149507458000 us unread

081960285X Python: A Study of Delphic Myth and Its Origins Book Joseph Fontenrose June, 1959 Biblo-Moser http://images.amazon.com/images/P/081960285X.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/081960285X.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/081960285X.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $32.00 $32.00 $53.95 $61.35 1377603 Delphian oracle Dragons Mythology, Greek Paperback 081960285X Usually ships in 4 to 6 weeks 081960285X_us 1149507595000 us unread

8575220098 Python: Guia de Consulta Rápida Book Marco Catunda 2001 Novatec http://images.amazon.com/images/P/8575220098.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/8575220098.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/8575220098.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $14.40 Paperback 8575220098 This item is currently not available. 8575220098_us 1149507501000 us unread

0130925578 Python: How to Program (How to Program Series) Book Charles P. Nemeth January, 2002 Prentice Hall http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0130925578.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0130925578.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0130925578.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg Computer Bks - Languages / Programming Programming Languages - General Hardcover 1 0130925578 This item is currently not available. 0130925578_us 1149507458000 us unread

0201748843 Python: Visual QuickStart Guide Book Chris Fehily October, 2001 Peachpit Press http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0201748843.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0201748843.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0201748843.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $21.99 $21.99 $9.92 $14.98 $14.57 353375 T2GMJN4VGH68 15ND45SPUBCTE 3JQCKTG6LU5MU Computer Bks - Languages / Programming Computer Books: General Computer Books: Languages Computer Networks Computer Programming Languages Computers Computers - Languages / Programming Internet - General Internet - Web Site Design Programming - Object Oriented Programming Programming Languages - General Programming Languages - Python Computers / Programming Languages / General Paperback 1 0201748843 Usually ships in 24 hours 785342748840 5.0 16 5

Justifies the title

This book lives up to it's promise of being a visual quickstart guide. The concepts are explained clearly with tons of examples - in fact, there are very few pages that don't have examples. The 'Tips' sections are pretty useful. The book is also tastefully laid out and the publishers have stuffed the pages with just the right amount of information. If you are a programmer trying to come up to speed on Python over a weekend, then this is the book for you. Folks who send lot of time in airports or trains might also want to consider this book. Diligently reading this book and trying the examples, should give the reader a solid foundation in Python basics. The author has done an amazing job. 5

New to Python? This book is the best.

I purchased and read several Python books. Python Visual Quickstart Guide made for somewhat dry reading first time through. But when I sat down to write my first Python program, I soon found that this was the book I wanted open in front of me all the time. The book covers all the basics. Between the table of contents, the index, and the way the book is organized, finding what you need is almost always easy -- more so than any of the other books that I bought. 5

Nice!

If you are a beginner, this book will get you going. If you program in 10 different languages, this book is a quick reference for Python basics. The author is clear and has selected examples that can be understood quickly. Python is a great programming language. 1592000738 0596002815 0596007973 0596001886 1590593715 0201748843_us 1149507458000 us unread

0833524186 Pythons Book Sherie Bargar Linda Johnson March, 2001 Bt Bound http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0833524186.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0833524186.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0833524186.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $9.50 $1.00 4102490 Animals - Reptiles & Amphibians Children: Babies & Toddlers Juvenile Nonfiction Library Binding 0833524186 This item is currently not available. 0833524186_us 1149507501000 us unread

1595153128 Pythons (Amazing Snakes Discovery Library) Book Ted O'Hare 30 June, 2005 Rourke Publishing http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1595153128.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1595153128.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1595153128.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $5.45 $5.45 $4.15 $11.59 3077116 Animals - Reptiles & Amphibians Children's 4-8 - Nature Children's Books/Ages 4-8 Nonfiction Children: Grades 4-6 Juvenile Nonfiction Juvenile literature Pythons Snakes Paperback 1 1595153128 Usually ships in 24 hours 1595153128_us 1149507414000 us unread

1577657306 Pythons (Animal Kingdom) Book Julie Murray June, 2002 Buddy Books http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1577657306.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1577657306.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1577657306.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $21.35 $21.35 2585753 Animals - Reptiles & Amphibians Children's Books/Ages 4-8 Nonfiction Children: Grades 1-2 Children: Grades 2-3 Juvenile Nonfiction Juvenile Zoological Sciences Juvenile literature Pythons Snakes Library Binding 1 1577657306 Usually ships in 24 hours 1577657306_us 1149507457000 us unread

1560652969 Pythons (Animals & the Environment) Book Mary Ann McDonald Joe McDonald January, 1996 Capstone Press http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1560652969.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1560652969.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1560652969.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $23.93 $15.55 $4.93 $11.41 2143288 Animals - Reptiles & Amphibians Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Nonfiction Children: Grades 3-4 Juvenile literature Pythons Snakes Library Binding 1 1560652969 Usually ships in 24 hours 5.0 1 5

The Best Book I Ever Read!!

This is my review of my book Pythons. I think that it had good facts. It wasn't too long and not too short. This book is for ages,well there is no ages it is just for snake lovers! The only thing I didn't like about it was it didn't tell you how to take care of certain snakes such as the Ball Python. It warned you that if you get a little snake it could get like 13FT long,and that you have to get new cages all the time because they grow so much. It also shows and tells you about many pictures. Well that is what I think of the story Pythons... 1560652969_us 1149507535000 us unread

0812093658 Pythons (Complete Pet Owner's Manuals) Book Patricia P. Bartlett Ernie Wagner 01 November, 1997 Barron's Educational Series http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0812093658.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0812093658.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0812093658.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $7.99 $7.99 $2.95 $6.95 $4.97 280328 11CUB5VL31M0A 1Y1OOUKO9F4Q4 Animals / Pets Pets Pythons as pets Reptiles, Amphibians & Terrariums Pets / Reptiles & Amphibians Paperback 1 0812093658 Usually ships in 24 hours 027011093654 4.5 4 4

Good if you haven't yet chosen a python

Helps in choosing a species, but offers little care advice relating to the care of specific species. Still, I consider this a must-have for its basic information on sexing snakes, helping them shed, and ensuring a proper feeding schedule. 5

A MUST FOR PYTHON HOBBYIST

Since I don't have a pet python yet and i don't want to have an accident so I bought this book in order to familiarize everything before buying one or two if possible.For me, this is the most comprehensive book about pythons on how to select, care, breed and medical nutrition and behavior on such lovable snakes.So, hobbyist or the like... buy this book first in order to be a more effective and good caretaker of your own python... =) 4

www.thesnake.org

9 main topics about 95 pages , understanding pythons , acquiring your python , caging , general husbandry , medical problems , breeding , incubation , species , useful addresses . A good book for the beginning python owner and a good source of general information . Full-color photos ! 1882770358 1580080359 0812096266 0793802601 1882770218 0812093658_us 1149507534000 us unread

1592966462 Pythons (New Naturebooks) Book Don P. Rothaus August, 2006 Child's World http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1592966462.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1592966462.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1592966462.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $27.07 $27.07 Animals - Reptiles & Amphibians Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Fiction Children: Grades 2-3 General Juvenile Nonfiction Juvenile literature Pythons School & Library Binding 1 1592966462 Not yet released. 1592966462_us 1149507414000 us unread

1562395173 Pythons (Snakes) Book James E. Gerholdt September, 1995 Abdo & Daughters Publishing http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1562395173.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1562395173.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1562395173.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $21.35 $21.35 $10.49 $16.64 2318210 Animals - Reptiles & Amphibians Children's 4-8 - Nature Children's Books/Ages 4-8 Nonfiction Children: Grades 3-4 Juvenile Nonfiction Juvenile Zoological Sciences Juvenile literature Nature - General Pythons Snakes Library Binding 1 1562395173 Usually ships in 24 hours 1562395173_us 1149507535000 us unread

0823956040 Pythons (Wechsler, Doug. Really Wild Life of Snakes.) Book Doug Wechsler August, 2001 PowerKids Press http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0823956040.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0823956040.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0823956040.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $18.75 $8.45 2488954 Children's 4-8 - Animals/Pets Children's Books/Ages 4-8 Nonfiction Children: Grades 1-2 Juvenile literature Pythons Reptiles & Amphibians Snakes Library Binding 1 0823956040 This item is currently not available. 0823956040_us 1149507501000 us unread

0736837337 Pythons (World of Reptiles) Book Matt Doeden January, 2005 Bridgestone Books http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0736837337.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0736837337.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0736837337.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $21.26 $13.82 $14.39 $9.89 $13.75 2210753 Animals - Reptiles & Amphibians Children's 9-12 - Nature / Guide Books Children's Books/Ages 4-8 Nonfiction Children: Grades 1-2 Juvenile Nonfiction Juvenile literature Pythons Reptiles & Amphibians Library Binding 1 0736837337 Usually ships in 24 hours 0736837337_us 1149507423000 us unread

1567661807 Pythons : Naturebooks Series Book Don Patton October, 1996 Child's World Inc http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1567661807.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1567661807.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1567661807.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $24.21 $5.11 $41.78 3496256 Animals - Reptiles & Amphibians Children's 9-12 - Nature / Guide Books Children: Grades 1-2 Juvenile literature Pythons Snakes Library Binding 1 1567661807 This item is currently not available. 1567661807_us 1149507535000 us unread

0866220844 Pythons and Boas Book Peter J. Stafford October, 1990 TFH Publications http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0866220844.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0866220844.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0866220844.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $26.95 $26.95 $0.90 $2.22 $6.99 952318 Boa constrictor Children: Grades 3-4 Juvenile literature Pets Pythons Reptiles & Amphibians Snakes as pets Hardcover 1 0866220844 Usually ships in 24 hours 4.5 2 5

Pythons and Boas

Pythons and Boas have long been among the most fascinating of snakes, and with continued encroachment upon their habitat they are now also among the most threatened. Pythons and Boas provides an up to date look at the Boidae, with emphasis being placed on the boids as threatened animals whose futures lie with increased captive breeding by concerned hobbyists. Every genus is covered, from the largest pythons to the smallest wood snakes, with summaries of what is known of their natural history and care in captivity. A special chapter spotlights methods of breeding boas and pythons in captivity. This volume includes the only available modern checklist of the species and subspecies of living boids, as well as a simple key to the genera. Heavily illustrated, with 111 color photos and numerous black and white illustrations and maps. 4

Great book for a new snake owner, great overall coverage.

This is great for a beggining pet owner. It has over 100 color photos of different types of snakes and also pictures and diagrams of afflictions. It covers everything from history, nomenclature, care and breeding. There is even a guide to help you determine what type of snake (proper name and origin) you have. Since this is a book on both boas and pythons, it doesn't spend much time or detail on either. Perhaps it's only shortcoming was that there is not much, if anything about IBD (Inclusion Body Disorder)that I have found in other books. Also, there was very little time spent on treating any of the diseases, except how to recognise them, and generally how they are treated. Otherwise, this is a great reference book and good reading for those that wish to know more about boas and pythons. 0812096266 1580080359 0764126865 086622632X 1882770218 0866220844_us 1149507586000 us unread

0866227202 Pythons and Boas Book October, 1990 TFH Publications http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0866227202.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0866227202.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0866227202.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $0.99 $1.99 $8.00 3444057 11CUB5VL31M0A Boa constrictor Juvenile literature Pythons Snakes as pets School & Library Binding 0866227202 This item is currently not available. 4.0 1 4

good info

I think this is a very good book to start with. I enjoyed it because tells u about the boas and pythons and if u want a pet boa or python u can learn from this because it tells u about there habitat and life so it may be a little esier for u to learn about getting a boa or python as a pet.I am not giving info about this book u will have to buy andfind out all the exiting facts. I hope u buy the book its a good price for the information it gives you. IF U DO GET THIS BOOK ENJOY IT. 0866227202_us 1149507586000 us unread

0749606711 Pythons and Boas (First Sight S.) Book Lionel Bender 26 September, 1991 Franklin Watts Ltd http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0749606711.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0749606711.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0749606711.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg Reptiles & amphibians Paperback 0749606711 This item is currently not available. 0749606711_us 1149507586000 us unread

053116599X Pythons and Boas (Watts Library(tm): Animals) Book Gloria G. Schlaepfer Mary Lou Samuelson Mary Lou Samuelson March, 2003 Franklin Watts http://images.amazon.com/images/P/053116599X.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/053116599X.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/053116599X.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $8.95 $8.95 $6.05 2177741 Animals - Reptiles & Amphibians Boa (Genus) Boa constrictor Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Nonfiction Children: Grades 4-6 General Juvenile Nonfiction Juvenile literature Pythons Snakes Paperback 1 053116599X Usually ships in 4 to 6 weeks 053116599X_us 1149507457000 us unread

0613595432 Pythons and Boas: Squeezing Snakes Book Gloria G. Schlaepfer December, 2003 Rebound by Sagebrush http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0613595432.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0613595432.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0613595432.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $17.60 $17.60 2888507 Animals - Reptiles & Amphibians Boa (Genus) Boa constrictor Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Nonfiction Children: Grades 4-6 General Juvenile Nonfiction Juvenile literature Pythons Snakes School & Library Binding 1 0613595432 Usually ships in 24 hours 0613595432_us 1149507423000 us unread

0590057634 Pythons Giant Snakes Book Paul Taylor September, 1979 Scholastic http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0590057634.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0590057634.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0590057634.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $1.75 Paperback 0590057634 This item is currently not available. 0590057634_us 1149507595000 us unread

0965744612 Pythons of Australia Book Brian A. Kend January, 1997 Canyonlands Publishing Group http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0965744612.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0965744612.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0965744612.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $35.00 $19.36 $21.50 1367870 Nature / Field Guide Books Reptiles & Amphibians Hardcover 1 0965744612 This item is currently not available. 0965744612_us 1149507535000 us unread

1575241498 Pythons of Australia: A Natural History Book Geordie Torr Eleanor Torr July, 2000 Krieger Publishing Company http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1575241498.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1575241498.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1575241498.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $26.50 $26.50 $19.11 357922 36D1ITUO058EN Australia General History - General History Nature Nature/Ecology Pythons Reptiles & Amphibians Paperback 1 1575241498 Special Order 5.0 1 5

This is a really good book for python keepers

not much to add,but in general I can say that this is a professional book with all information for experienced pythons keepers,who want to know more. 1882770358 1575241498_us 1149507501000 us unread

B000CE8I2G Pythons of the World Volume 1 Australia Book David G. Barker Tracy M. Barker 1994 The Herpetocultural Library http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000CE8I2G.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000CE8I2G.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000CE8I2G.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $195.00 2351864 Paperback Unabridged B000CE8I2G This item is currently not available. B000CE8I2G_us 1149507586000 us unread

188277034X Pythons of the World: Australia (Herpetocultural Library) Book David Barker November, 1994 Advanced Vivarium Systems http://images.amazon.com/images/P/188277034X.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/188277034X.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/188277034X.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $59.95 $1438.37 1824746 Animals / Pets Fish General Nature/Ecology Hardcover 1 188277034X This item is currently not available. 5.0 2 5

Excellent book over boids

This book covers all python species found in Australia. It provides in depth information, both as it relates to captivity and natural history and behaviour. There's also some magnificent photographs. This book has the most complete info published for many of Oz's pythons species; it covers the obscure ones better than any other (trust me, try to find any other info on rough scaled pythons!). It gives the best information in any one source for many of the common ones. Furthermore, this book actually caters to people that are neither hard core, PhD holding scientist, nor novices. It's great; a book for those of us that aren't either extreme. We're a neglected market. If you're interested in pythons in general, this book is worth having, if you can get ahold of it; it provides insights into python physiology and ecology that will serve you in good stead. And if you're interested in any of the Oz pythons, it's a must have! Great info, and lots of it, good photography, and solid, new information; this is one of the better herp books out there, and I really hope they can finish up the series. 5

A must-have for any reptile enthusiast!

This Book documents, describes and differentiates between the various species of python found on the continent of Australia. Anyone familiar with the work of David and Tracey Barker also knows that this book was inevitable for them to write. Very few other people have the knowledge and experience necessary to even attempt the task of dividing and classifying such a variable group of creatures. This daunting taxonomic task is accomplished with an approach of pure scientific sensibility. The book contains many beautiful photographs, some of which are of pythons rarely seen in the wild or in captivity.Each python is described in meticulous detail with notes on the captive care and breeding. The only possible improvement that could have been made would have been the inclusion of standard as well as metric measurements. This book easily stands out as one of the finest herpetelogical works ever written and is truly deserving of the 5 star rating. Oh, and by the way, spend the few extra bucks for the hardcover, you'll be glad you did! 188277034X_us 1149507586000 us unread

B0008IAJ8W Pythons, Perls and Web servers on PHP.(free software can drive a small companies website easily)(Brief Article) : An article from: Hawaii Business Ebook 01 June, 2005 Hawaii Business Publishing Co. http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0008IAJ8W.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0008IAJ8W.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0008IAJ8W.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $5.95 $5.95 3136567 Digital HTML Available for download now B0008IAJ8W_us 1149507458000 us unread

222104875X Quand le python se déroule (Collection "Vécu") Book Jacqueline Roumeguère-Eberhardt 1988 R. Laffont http://images.amazon.com/images/P/222104875X.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/222104875X.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/222104875X.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg Roumeguère-Eberhardt, Jacqueline Unknown Binding 222104875X This item is currently not available. 222104875X_us 1149507595000 us unread

0131886703 Quartz Job Scheduling Framework : Building Open Source Enterprise Applications Book Chuck Cavaness 16 June, 2006 Prentice Hall PTR http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0131886703.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0131886703.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0131886703.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $49.99 $31.49 264558 Computer Bks - Languages / Programming Computer Books: Languages Computers Computers - Languages / Programming Open source software Production scheduling Programming Languages - Java Computers / Programming Languages / Java Paperback 1 0131886703 Not yet released. 159059584X 1932394613 0596100078 0131886703_us 1149507666000 us unread

0793810221 Quick & Easy Ball Python Care (Quick & Easy) Book Colette Sutherland 30 August, 2005 TFH Publications http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0793810221.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0793810221.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0793810221.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $4.95 $4.95 $3.16 $4.95 $3.16 318637 Animals / Pets Ball pythons as pets Pets Reference Reptiles, Amphibians & Terrariums Paperback 1 0793810221 Usually ships in 24 hours 1882770722 0793802601 1882770358 0764111248 B000A8G1QY 0793810221_us 1149507414000 us unread

0596527314 Rails Cookbook (Cookbooks (O'Reilly)) Book Rob Orsini 01 October, 2006 O'Reilly Media, Inc. http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0596527314.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0596527314.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0596527314.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $39.99 $25.19 259001 Computer Bks - Internet Computer Books: Languages Computers Computers - Languages / Programming Internet - Browsers Internet - Security Internet - World Wide Web Programming - Software Development Computers / Internet / World Wide Web rails, ruby, framework, lighttpd, postgres, mysql, Action Pack, ActiveRecord, Javascript, Ajax, Pragmatic, David Heinemeier Hansson Paperback 1 0596527314 Not yet released. 0596101325 1932394699 0977616606 0596523696 0974514055 0596527314_us 1149507375000 us unread

0977616606 Rails Recipes Book Chad Fowler 01 June, 2006 Pragmatic Bookshelf http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0977616606.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0977616606.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0977616606.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $32.95 6449 Computer - Internet Computer Bks - Languages / Programming Computer Books: Languages Computers Internet - Application Development Internet - World Wide Web Programming - General Programming Languages - CGI, Javascript, Perl, VBScript Computers / Programming Languages / CGI, JavaScript, Perl, VBScript Ruby, Rails, Java, J2EE, web, internet, framework Paperback 1 0977616606 This item is currently not available. 5.0 1 5

Rails Top Book

Since I learned of Ruby and Rails I instantly became a fan and supporter of them. I bought both, the hard copy for when it releases, and electronic access to on-going work on the book. (like having access to the writer's desk) Every chapter, every line, are clear instructions on how to implement a feature you'll surely need to. This book can save you many 'figuring out' hours by letting you know how to do it right the first time. It's just an amazing hands-on reference on the Rails framework. 097669400X 1932394699 0976694069 0974514055 0596101325 0977616606_us 1149507666000 us unread

1560256788 Rat Scabies and the Holy Grail: Can a Punk Rock Legend Find What Monty Python Couldn't? Book Christopher Dawes 10 June, 2005 Thunder's Mouth Press http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1560256788.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1560256788.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1560256788.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $15.95 $10.85 $7.12 $15.95 $10.43 54724 1961- Biography / Autobiography Dawes, Christopher, Essays & Travelogues Europe - General Genres & Styles - Rock Grail Music Personal Memoirs Popular Culture Popular Culture - General Rock Music Scabies, Rat Sociology Travel Travel - General Paperback 1 1560256788 Usually ships in 24 hours 5.0 5 5

Hilarious

What happens when a journolist and a punk rock legend go off to find the Holy Grail? Well read this to find out. An hilarious account of adventuring in the misty world that most people have only heard of due to The DaVinci Code. A good travel book and mystery book. Highly recommended. 5

If you are interested in the mystery of Rennes-le-Chateau, there are only 2 books you really need.

"Holy Blood Holy Grail" - and this one. The first because - despite the fact that other books on the subject preceeded it - it's the one that really put the subject on the map. And Dawes' book because it's the only one I've read that really seems to pick up where the first one leaves off, with a very entertaining and comical, yet touchingly personal, spin. Is there anything to the mystery after all? Who knows? But with a book like this, the quest is just as beguiling a read as any blockbuster revelation could be. 4

the punk Da Vinci Code

Hilarious and irreverant true story of one man and his neighbour (who just happens to be the drummer from legendary punk band The Damned) who go on a quest to find the Holy Grail. A refreshing alternative to The Da Vinci Code. Completely insane in places. 0743241924 1931520151 0767918738 159143047X 0743233212 1560256788_us 1149507414000 us unread

291043866X Relevé des Archives municipales de Saint Python, (Nord), 1504-1789 (Publication A.G.F.H) Book Michel Blas 1998 Association généalogique Flandre-Hainaut http://images.amazon.com/images/P/291043866X.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/291043866X.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/291043866X.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg Unknown Binding 291043866X This item is currently not available. 291043866X_us 1149507534000 us unread

0963147005 Reproductive Husbandry of Pythons and Boas Book Richard Ross December, 1990 Inst for Herpetological Research http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0963147005.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0963147005.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0963147005.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $75.00 $121.87 3481206 Nature/Ecology Hardcover 0963147005 This item is currently not available. 5.0 2 5

the gospel

This book is the real deal. If you are interested in breeding or just curious this is the book to own. I have bred boas and pythons and I refer to this as often as possible. Even if you are not interested in breeding and just want to bone up on your knowledge this is a must have book in your library. Every self respecting herper should own this book!! It is "THE WHAT IT IS" book. 5

A must have for those interested in Boids!

This is a book that you simply must have if you are at all interested in the keeping and or breeding of Boa and Python snakes. This is one of the most complete works on the subject available to date. It is an easy reading book that even though there are some technical discussions, even an amature hobbyist will be able to follow along. Advanced hobbyists will also learn things from this book that they had not learned before, and it will make them think in a way that they had not thought before. This is a book that you will find yourself reffering back to for years to come. Not to mention you'll see incredible photos that you will not see anywhere else. This one goes on my top shelf for sure! 1882770358 0894649213 1882770412 0812096266 0812093658 0963147005_us 1149507586000 us unread

0836836561 Reticulated Pythons (World's Largest Snakes) Book Valerie J. Weber December, 2002 Gareth Stevens Publishing http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0836836561.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0836836561.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0836836561.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $22.00 $22.00 $39.69 $17.95 1393361 Animals - Reptiles & Amphibians Children's Books/Ages 4-8 Nonfiction Children: Grades 2-3 Juvenile Nonfiction Juvenile literature Pythons Reticulated python Snakes Library Binding 1 0836836561 Usually ships in 24 hours 0894649957 0836836561_us 1149507457000 us unread

0596523696 Ruby Cookbook (Cookbooks (O'Reilly)) Book Lucas Carlson Leonard Richardson 01 July, 2006 O'Reilly Media, Inc. http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0596523696.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0596523696.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0596523696.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $49.99 $31.49 147379 3R6H468MEQIYL 1RHYBUXH2J1DW 1J4U7H2ZFZIEP Computer Books: Languages Computers Computers - Languages / Programming Programming Languages - CGI, Javascript, Perl, VBScript Programming Languages - General Programming Languages - Java Computers / Programming Languages / CGI, JavaScript, Perl, VBScript ruby, rails, web development, database, programming, xml, dynamic languages Paperback 1 0596523696 Not yet released. 0596101325 0672328844 1932394699 0977616606 0596527314 0596523696_us 1149507666000 us unread

0596002149 Ruby In A Nutshell Book Yukihiro Matsumoto November, 2001 O'Reilly Media, Inc. http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0596002149.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0596002149.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0596002149.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $24.95 $16.47 $10.70 $24.95 $12.00 47143 BPUDQ0TGZ785 28N9TF3TW5QIL 2XRD2ZQF9USLT Computer Books: Languages Computer programming Computers Computers - Languages / Programming Object-oriented programming (C Object-oriented programming (Computer science) Operating Systems - General Programming - General Programming - Object Oriented Programming Programming Languages - CGI, Javascript, Perl, VBScript Ruby (Computer language) Ruby (Computer program languag Ruby (Computer program language) Computers / Programming Languages / CGI, JavaScript, Perl, VBScript Programming languages Ruby, object-oriented, scripting language, C, Perl, Python Object-Oriented Programming Programming - Object Oriented Paperback 1 0596002149 Usually ships in 24 hours 636920002147 4.0 6 5

An Excellent At-Your-Fingers Quick Reference

There isn't much in-depth knowledge I can impart based on this book. It fulfills its demanded function as "A Desktop Quick Reference". It provides a quick reference to the core language features and APIs in a succinct way. On the fly, this book is a great reference. If you are going to be carrying around a reference for Ruby, this should be it. Its small size does not deter it from being full of succinct information. Do not buy this if you are looking for a tutorial-style introduction to Ruby. (In that case, see Programming Ruby by Dave Thomas). If you are looking for a quick reference to this fun programming language, however, this book is a great choice! 4

Ruby In A Nutshell

This book is very much a brief reference for Ruby -- it is consistent with the general philosophy of the nutshell series. Don't expect to learn ruby from this book even if you are already an experienced programmer. It is strictly a reference for those who need a quick reminder of the syntax. Coverage of semantics is very limited and examples are few and far between. 4

Slightly dated (1st printing) but good "quick" reference.

Forgotten the name of the libarary that does directory listings? Need to know the method of the IMAP libarary? This is the book for that. Full documentation, look elsewhere, but as a handy guide to keep on your desk. Not a beginners learn to code Ruby book, but a beginners and intermediates quick look up the method book. Learning Ruby? Get this _AND_ a beginner tutorial book. It will speed up your learning curve. 0974514055 097669400X 0672320835 1932394613 0672322528 0596002149_us 1149507458000 us unread

0596101325 Ruby on Rails: Up and Running Book Bruce Tate 01 August, 2006 O'Reilly Media, Inc. http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0596101325.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0596101325.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0596101325.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $29.99 $18.89 31775 Computer Bks - Languages / Programming Computer Books: Languages Computers Computers - Languages / Programming Internet - Application Development Internet - Web Site Design Internet - World Wide Web Programming Languages - CGI, Javascript, Perl, VBScript Programming Languages - General Computers / Programming Languages / CGI, JavaScript, Perl, VBScript ruby, web, web programming, rails, ruby on rails, internet programming, client application, look and feel, web 2.0, ajax Paperback 1 0596101325 Not yet released. 097669400X 0974514055 0977616606 1932394699 0596002149 0596101325_us 1149507375000 us unread

0672328682 Sams Teach Yourself AJAX in 10 Minutes (Sams Teach Yourself in 10 Minutes) Book Phil Ballard 28 April, 2006 Sams http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0672328682.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0672328682.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0672328682.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $14.99 $9.74 $9.24 $14.99 $9.70 31694 Computer Bks - Internet Computer Books: Languages Computers Computers - Languages / Programming Data Transmission Systems - Broadband Integrated Services Digital Networks (Isdn) Internet - General Internet - World Wide Web Programming Languages - CGI, Javascript, Perl, VBScript Programming Languages - XML Computers / Internet / World Wide Web Paperback 1 0672328682 Usually ships in 24 hours 0471785970 1932394613 0471777781 0596102259 0976694085 0672328682_us 1149507375000 us unread

0672317354 Sams Teach Yourself Python in 24 Hours (Teach Yourself -- 24 Hours) Book Ivan Van Laningham Ivan Van Laningham 15 May, 2000 Sams http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0672317354.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0672317354.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0672317354.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $24.99 $8.22 $13.75 493592 3PE5H0Z3VFNS Computer Bks - Languages / Programming Computer Books: Web Publishing Computer Networks Computer Programming Languages Computers Internet - General Internet - Web Site Design Programming - Object Oriented Programming Programming Languages - General Python (Computer language) Python (Computer program langu Python (Computer program language) Paperback 1 0672317354 This item is currently not available. 752063317358 In the crowded field of scripting languages, Python has found a niche as the best tool for learning object-oriented design principles. Several elegantly produced books in the past few years, notably David M. Beazley's thorough Python Essential Reference and John E. Grayson's durable Python and Tkinter Programming, have established a foundation of documentation that makes Python a buildable platform for rapid prototyping, as well as good programming practice. The appearance in April 2000 of a Sams Teach Yourself Python in 24 Hours is evidence of mainstream support. Author Ivan van Laningham has the happy task of teaching an eminently teachable language, and his passion for Python is evident throughout. The 24-chapter recipe is arbitrary, but the book has a well-chosen tripartite subdivision into sections on basic operation, object-oriented design, and GUIs, each of which fulfills its mission. Each "hour" chapter ends with a summary, a Q&A period, a quiz with answers, and, for the ambitious, exercises. The first hour asks the essential question, "Why Python?" The answer is a collection of flattering adjectives--flexible, extensible, embeddable, elegant, clear, simple--but the author fails to provide a comparison of Python with Tcl, Java, and Perl. Python has a competitive advantage, as found in Part II on object-oriented design basics and strategies. While other languages use o-o principles, none has subsumed it into the mind of the language as much as Python. Van Laningham's book is illustrated with visually uninteresting black-and-white screen dumps from his Windows Python shell. An early lesson on adding '1' to the decimal representation of a googol (10^100) reveals that Python can print the answer in decimal notation. (Try it with Perl to see what happens.) The modular nature of Python is introduced transparently by incorporating the trigonometric math library. Teach Yourself Python in 24 Hours is weakest in its editing. Mistakes in cross-referencing are distracting, and Van Laningham's loose, informal English often obfuscates his points. Code snippets in the early chapters grow into major listings by the middle, and proper annotation begins to slacken. A 950-line listing in chapter 16--which is downloadable from the inscrutable www.pauahtun.org--has few annotations. May future editions be shorter, sharper, and cleaner, but just as passionate. --Peter Leopold 2.0 15 1

Need an Aneurysm, this book should do the trick...

...this book is garbage, and that's exactly where the book is now. In the garbage. The author needs to go back to school and get educated in the english language. He is very knowledgable in programming, he lacks the ability to put his thoughts in english that others can understand. He stops his thought half way through sentences. He has run on sentences, typo's, combined with the fact that he NEVER explains a single piece of code in the book completely, he famous lines in the book are "we'll discuss that later" which never happens, and "do you remember this?" NO, BECAUSE YOU NEVER EXPLAINED IT!!! Very frustrating, and i'm an undergrad student that has been punching out code in Java for 3 years, and I'm totally lost, how is that possible? 2 simple words for this book, don't bother. Get this book, it's much better: ISBN# 0-13-026036-3 - Core Python Programming by Wesley J. Chun 1

Not pratical for learning any useful programming

I have tried making my way through this book many times. But I cannot get past the author's incessesant penchant for the mayan calendar. I did not find any use in going through code snippets (which are very hard to read, they are screenshots in small font)that taught me how to manipulate dates (leap years, mayan calendars etc.) I found this approach extremely boring. Infusing text with an occasionally comment of marginal wit, does not make it entertaining.The only redeeming portion of this book it that it does include a good introduction to Tkinter. I just wish someone with a better understanding of instructional writing had written it.Like so many other Python books, does every introduction to subjects such as funtions, classes, objects and methods have to be about spam? I know where python got its name...but enough already! 1

save your money

the worst python book i have ever read. the teaching style is so scatterbrained that it useless to a beginner. the code snippets are worthless because he uses elements in the code,that have not been fully explained yet,stating that "we will discuss that in chapter whatever" then expects you to build on code you don't fully understand. this book reads like it was slapped together in a long weekend. my copy is already in the dumpster. 0672327252 0672317354_us 1149507501000 us unread

9676711985 Sang Kancil and the Python (Tales of the Sang Kancil) Book Rejab F. I. January, 2003 Delta Editions http://images.amazon.com/images/P/9676711985.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/9676711985.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/9676711985.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $9.95 $9.95 Children's 4-8 Children: Grades 2-3 Fairy Tales & Folklore - Asian Hardcover 1 9676711985 Special Order 9676711985_us 1149507457000 us unread

0072263156 Schildt's Java Programming Cookbook Book Herbert Schildt 01 May, 2007 McGraw-Hill Osborne Media http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0072263156.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0072263156.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0072263156.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $49.99 $31.49 Computer Books: Languages Computers Computers - Languages / Programming Programming Languages - Java Computers / Programming Languages / Java Paperback 1 0072263156 Not yet released. 0072263156_us 1149507608000 us unread

1590596978 SCJP Exam for J2SE 5: A Concise and Comprehensive Study Guide for The Sun Certified Java Programmer Exam Book Paul Sanghera 30 May, 2006 Apress http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1590596978.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1590596978.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1590596978.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $39.99 $25.19 $28.34 53593 Computer Books: Languages Computers Programming Languages - Java Java & variants Paperback 1 1590596978 Not yet released. 1590596978_us 1149507666000 us unread

0072260882 SCJP Sun Certified Programmer for Java 5 Practice Exams (Exam 310-055) Book Katherine Sierra Bert Bates 01 May, 2007 McGraw-Hill Osborne Media http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0072260882.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0072260882.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0072260882.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $39.99 $25.19 148754 Certification Guides - General Computer Bks - Certification Computer Books: General Computers Computers - Certification Programming Languages - Java Computers / Technical Skills Paperback 1 0072260882 Not yet released. 0072226846 0596009208 0596005407 1590595165 0596005717 0072260882_us 1149507608000 us unread

083683657X Scrub Pythons (World's Largest Snakes) Book Valerie J. Weber December, 2002 Gareth Stevens Publishing http://images.amazon.com/images/P/083683657X.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/083683657X.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/083683657X.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $22.00 $22.00 $22.99 $17.00 1825220 Amethystine python Animals - Reptiles & Amphibians Children's Books/Ages 4-8 Nonfiction Children: Grades 2-3 Juvenile Nonfiction Juvenile literature Pythons Snakes Library Binding 1 083683657X Usually ships in 24 hours 083683657X_us 1149507457000 us unread

0672327635 Shortcut to Java : A Code-First Approach for the Savvy Programmer Book Rogers Cadenhead 18 May, 2006 Sams http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0672327635.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0672327635.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0672327635.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $39.99 $25.19 831358 Computer Bks - Languages / Programming Computer Books: Languages Computers Computers - Languages / Programming Programming Languages - Java Computers / Programming Languages / Java Paperback 1 0672327635 Usually ships in 1 to 3 weeks 0672327635_us 1149507666000 us unread

0865922438 Snake Discovery Library Set II (Anacondas, Coral Snakes, Kingsnakes, Pythons, Rat Snakes, Tree Vipers) Book Sherie Bargar Linda Johnson September, 1987 Rourke Publishing http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0865922438.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0865922438.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0865922438.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $123.86 4394407 Children's Books/Ages 4-8 Nonfiction Nature/Ecology Library Binding 1 0865922438 This item is currently not available. 0865922438_us 1149507595000 us unread

0843123702 Snake's Mistake Book Keith Faulkner Jonathan Lambert 20 January, 1989 Price Stern Sloan http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0843123702.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0843123702.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0843123702.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $10.95 $9.42 $10.00 1656086 Children's Baby/Preschool Children: Babies & Toddlers Fiction General Pythons Snakes Stories in rhyme Paperback 1 0843123702 This item is currently not available. 0843123702_us 1149507586000 us unread

1859130232 Snakes of the World: A Checklist, Boas, Pythons, Sheild Tails and Worm Snakes Book Kenneth R. G. Welch January, 1995 R & a Research and Information http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1859130232.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1859130232.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1859130232.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $24.95 4123094 Classification Geographical distribution Nature / Field Guide Books Nomenclature Reptiles & Amphibians Snakes Paperback 1 1859130232 This item is currently not available. 1859130232_us 1149507586000 us unread

0130449687 SOA Integration Using Java EE 5 Web Services Book Mark D. Hansen 26 January, 2007 Prentice Hall PTR http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0130449687.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0130449687.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0130449687.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $49.99 $31.49 2444260 Computer Bks - Languages / Programming Computer Books: Languages Computers Computers - Languages / Programming Internet - World Wide Web Programming Languages - Java Computers / Programming Languages / Java Paperback 1 0130449687 Not yet released. 076092016960 0130449687_us 1149507608000 us unread

B000EB5E7E Some Doves and Pythons Book Sumner Locke Elliott 1966 Harper & Row http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000EB5E7E.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000EB5E7E.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000EB5E7E.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $3.14 $45.00 Hardcover B000EB5E7E This item is currently not available. B000EB5E7E_us 1149507595000 us unread

B000FAH2G0 Spirit of Python Book Jentezen Franklin 1998 Kingdom Connection http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000FAH2G0.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000FAH2G0.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000FAH2G0.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $8.00 Paperback B000FAH2G0 This item is currently not available. B000FAH2G0_us 1149507534000 us unread

0929263022 Spoiling Python"s Schemes Book Bobbie Jean Merck 1990 A Great Love Inc. http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0929263022.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0929263022.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0929263022.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $6.80 1109498 Paperback 0929263022 This item is currently not available. 0929263022_us 1149507586000 us unread

0321421027 Starting Out with Java : From Control Structures through Data Structures Book Tony Gaddis Godfrey Muganda 04 August, 2006 Addison Wesley http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0321421027.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0321421027.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0321421027.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $95.00 $95.00 Computer Books: Languages Computer Engineering Computers Computers - General Information Engineering - Electrical & Electronic Programming Languages - Java Computers / Programming Languages / Java Paperback 1 0321421027 Not yet released. 0321421027_us 1149507618000 us unread

0321393058 Starting Out with Java : Industrial Strength Book Tony Gaddis 01 June, 2006 Addison Wesley http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0321393058.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0321393058.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0321393058.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $90.67 Computer Bks - General Information Computer Books: Languages Computer Engineering Computers Engineering - Electrical & Electronic Programming Languages - Java Computers / Programming Languages / Java Paperback 1 0321393058 This item is currently not available. 0321393058_us 1149507666000 us unread

087542757X Stroking The Python (Llewellyn's New Age Series) Book Stein 01 January, 1951 Llewellyn Publications http://images.amazon.com/images/P/087542757X.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/087542757X.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/087542757X.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $14.50 $0.92 $8.00 1065381 General New Age New Age / Parapsychology Parapsychology - ESP (Clairvoyance, Precognition, Telepathy) Parapsychology - General Social Science / Women's Studies Paperback 1 087542757X This item is currently not available. 3.0 2 4

A stroker joker

Invaluable to anyone wishing to really make their python happy. In my experience, if your python is happy so are you. Remember these are ancient creatures, used to roaming wild but now limited to hiding in dark damp places. The book covers all stroking angles and grips and features several pop up diagrams. Stroking the python has happened since ancient times, the romans, the greeks - even the welsh would list it as a passtime. The book mainly cover Molorus Trouserus, in all its many shapes and sizes. It tells you how to stroke your own or how best to stroke a friends. Also if you are uncomfortable stroking your python, it lists a number of London salons who will do it for you. 2

Not what I was expecting...

I was hoping to get some tips on how best to stroke my python but it turned out not to be too focused with herpetology after all but covers "stroking it" in much more general terms... When faced with the enormity of my python I'm at a complete loss - many people have commented on it - it's been known to bring a tear to many an eye. Oh well, the search for fun and fulfilling ways to engage my python continues... 087542757X_us 1149507595000 us unread

0072263865 Struts : The Complete Reference, 2nd Edition Book James Holmes 30 November, 2006 McGraw-Hill Osborne Media http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0072263865.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0072263865.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0072263865.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $49.99 $31.49 Computer Books: Languages Computers Computers - Languages / Programming Programming Languages - Java Computers / Programming Languages / Java Paperback 1 0072263865 Not yet released. 4.5 40 5

this is my everyday coding book

This book taught me Struts and it sits beside me for everyday reference. The only complete book I found that will get you started and keep you going. 5

great book on Struts

I'm new to Java and Struts and this book has made learning Struts very straightforward. The tutorials at the end of each section are good for beginners like me trying to take it all in. 5

now I can understand Struts

Very helpful tutorials. Easy to use reference. Makes learning Struts a lot easier. Thanks for a great book. 0072263865_us 1149507609000 us unread

0072259523 Sun Certified Developer for Java Web Services Study Guide (Exam 310-220) Book Jerome Josephraj Prasad Kukkamalla 01 August, 2007 McGraw-Hill Osborne Media http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0072259523.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0072259523.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0072259523.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $59.99 $37.79 50900 Certification Guides - General Computer Bks - Certification Computer Books: General Computers Computers - Certification Internet - General Programming Languages - Java Computers / Technical Skills Paperback 1 0072259523 Not yet released. 1932394400 0072226846 0596005717 0596007124 0072258810 0072259523_us 1149507608000 us unread

0072263148 Swing:A Beginner's Guide (Beginner's Guide (Osborne Mcgraw Hill)) Book Herbert Schildt 14 September, 2006 McGraw-Hill Osborne Media http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0072263148.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0072263148.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0072263148.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $39.99 $25.19 660026 Computer Books: Languages Computers Computers - Languages / Programming Programming Languages - General Programming Languages - Java Computers / Programming Languages / Java Paperback 1 0072263148 Not yet released. 0072263148_us 1149507609000 us unread

2910438651 Table des actes de B.M.S. et N.M.D. de Saint Python (Nord), 1660-1805 (Publication A.G.F.H) Book Michel Blas 1998 Association généalogique Flandre-Hainaut http://images.amazon.com/images/P/2910438651.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/2910438651.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/2910438651.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg Unknown Binding 2910438651 This item is currently not available. 2910438651_us 1149507534000 us unread

0894649957 Tales of Giant Snakes: A Historical Natural History of Anacondas and Pythons Book John C. Murphy Robert W. Henderson September, 1997 Krieger Pub. Co. http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0894649957.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0894649957.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0894649957.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $32.50 $32.50 $17.99 $124.23 $56.94 710685 19BCLM98ABKJE African rock python Anaconda Indian python Nature Nature/Ecology Reptiles Reptiles & Amphibians Reticulated python Hardcover 1 0894649957 Usually ships in 24 hours 4.5 3 4

This book is cool.

this book is cool, i also know the guy, he works at the high schoo 4

A delightful debunking of the myths about the biggest snakes

Hollywood has not been kind to the long constrictor. In its view, they drop out of trees or rise up out of rivers, big as buses and determined to squeeze the guts out of that hapless human being who has wandered within reach of their treacherous or lecherous (depending upon the sex of the victim) coils. Though big snakes have, in fact, never been much interested in people, people have always been fascinated by them. Sensational stories of villagers squashed and gobbled up by monstrous serpents fill the accounts of explorers and early "naturalists." For all the satisfying fear they engender in far removed readers, such stories do the snakes injustice and divert attention from their remarkable morphology and living habits. These authors are scientists, but they are also literate and obviously snake enthusiasts. So while they stick to the facts, they write clearly and engagingly in defense of remarkable animals who, when it comes to encounters with humans, are much more sinned against than sinning. There are chapters about feeding and breeding of course. But there is also a serious review of the extraordinary stories that impute lengths of sixty or more feet to anacondas and pythons. By the time the myths have been detonated, the terrified lay reader is ready for an honest answer to the question, "How long can a snake grow?" Read the book to find out. But I will say it is longer than some buses. 5

The Facts and Nothing But the Facts

I purchased this book on a whim, knowing of the authors' credibility. When I got in to it, I realized it was going to be more than I expected. This work discredits one by one all the ridiculous length claims on snakes from around the world. Instead of these (sometimes outrageous) claims, the authors provide you with THE FACTS AND NOTHING BUT THE FACTS! It is about time herpers spread the honest truth about these species to the general public, rather than the typical "My python should hit thirty-five feet because that's the maximum size!". This book is an educational experience for ANYONE with an interest in these species or herps in general. I wholeheartedly recommend it! The human attack accounts are pretty eye-opening, too! 0739830996 0836836561 1882770838 0520224876 0816030723 0894649957_us 1149507534000 us unread

1560256532 Terry Jones's War on the War on Terror : Observations and Denunciations by a Founding Member of Monty Python Book Terry Jones 09 January, 2005 Thunder's Mouth, Nation Books http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1560256532.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1560256532.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1560256532.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $12.95 $9.97 $3.96 $10.31 $6.79 232212 2Z4FGUSVLD0MB 21ALXTQJ5VYI8 GABQPEHUJGFU (George Walker), 1946- 1953- Blair, Tony, Bush, George W. Essays Form - Essays Humor Topic - Political Humor / Essays Paperback 1 1560256532 Usually ships in 24 hours 4.0 14 5

Political satire in the best Swiftian tradition

This is just what you'd expect from a member of the extraordinarily literate and politically aware Monty Python. Jones shows that the years have not dulled his wit, skewering Bush, Blair and their minions with a thousand razor-sharp barbs, and showing up many of their absurdities by extending them to everyday life. Whether he is debating killing his neighbors because he suspects that they are up to no good or "justifying" the chaining of his son to a radiator because, after all, his _intention_ was to obtain information, not to torture, he makes us unsure whether to laugh or groan at the fact that this _is_ the real world of Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, et al. Not all of these columns (which they were originally published as) are classics, but they are always informative and most of them take a different perspective on issues that are all too often portrayed by the mainstream media with a mind-numbing sameness. Since they were published at sometimes widely-spaced intervals and of necessity repeat a lot of information, I would recommend not reading the book straight through, but picking it up and reading a chapter or two at a time. Highly recommended chapters: 1) The Grammar of the War on Terror; 3) A Bag Over the Head is Worth Two for George W. Bush; 10) I'm Losing Patience With My Neighbors, Mr. Bush; 11) How To Bomb and Save Money; 20) If Fish Feel Pain...; 28) The War of Words in Iraq; and 32) It Really Isn't Torture. 1

Shamefull

Why does gifted comedians, actors and music stars think they are automatically gifted with political wisdom? That TJ was funny in the Monty Python context doesn't a priori give him clout in political thinking, does it? The left wing raging about Bush and Blair tells me more of Bush and Blair doing things right then the wisdom of a comedian. The writing might be cloaked in "satire" (aka lefties way of getting away with nonsense) but it's none the less just hate propaganda. Shame on TJ. 5

FOOD FOR A POST-HOLOCAUSTAL CAMPFIRE?

Much brilliance. A very small handful of weak points but mostly it's both extremely funny and immensely - agonisingly - serious. It entertains as it points up the awful stupidity and impotence of you "masses", and the terrifyingly simple Command-Of-Things of us leaders. A must-read to all students of persuasion and suggestibility, mass hypnosis, pre-pandemic psychosis, etc. A must-avoid to all comfortable UK and US citizens. A could-be-linked-illuminatingly to materials such as The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat, A Complete Allegorical Manual On Consciousness & Cosmos, and the work of Arundhati Roy. It's helped me to see more clearly into the way my mind is working (or NOT working), how the world really works, who my friends really aren't, what motivates me, how I come to feel rewarded (or otherwise get reinforced in psychological grooves), how I've never so knowingly lied to the public because I've always done such a jolly good job of fooling myself first, etc etc etc. In short it has helped me to appreciate some of the errors of my ways. Some real biggies. So Thank You Terry. No more of this Good Christian Bombing nonsense. No more Spin. No more Poodle. No more half-blindly Stoking The Terror. God no. Next time I identify the enemy I'm going to jolly well try LOVING THEM AS MYSELF. Oh yes. And not because any God, Christ or religion suggest I do so. Ah no. Because [ - END OF TRANSMISSION] 0060758643 0563487933 0312335873 0689876475 B0007YMUJ8 1560256532_us 1149507423000 us unread

2749100801 Textes, pensées et dialogues de sourd Book Monty Python Arnaud Hofmarcher 20 February, 2003 Le Cherche-midi Editeur http://images.amazon.com/images/P/2749100801.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/2749100801.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/2749100801.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg 2671148 Paperback 2749100801 This item is currently not available. 2749100801_us 1149507457000 us unread

0413775291 The Fairly Incomplete and Rather Badly Illustrated Monty Python Songbook Book Monty Python's Flying Circus 01 April, 2006 Methuen Publishing Ltd http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0413775291.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0413775291.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0413775291.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $19.95 $13.57 $12.99 $19.95 $13.29 682477 General Humor Music/Songbooks Musical Instruments - Piano Songbooks - Popular Humor / General TV tie-in humour Paperback 1 0413775291 Usually ships in 24 hours 0413775291_us 1149507414000 us unread

1891847058 The (Non-Inflatable) Monty Python TV Companion Book Jim Yoakum July, 1999 Dowling Press http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1891847058.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1891847058.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1891847058.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $16.95 $16.95 $2.91 $12.00 $8.00 1081687 30D027HMFOJDQ 3K5O1N3EV08AQ Comedy Monty Python's flying circus (Television program) Movie/Tv Tie-Ins Pop Arts / Pop Culture Paperback 1 1891847058 Special Order 3.5 7 1

Cheap and slightly nasty

I hate books like this. Sort of pasted together scrapbook thingys with lots of authorial attempts to be as witty as its subject. Cheap paper, cheap printing, confusing mess for a cover. But yes, there IS that intro by Chapman, and that does count for a lot. I have to wonder, however did he find himself stuck writing an intro for this newsprint mess? 2

Very Standard

From what I gather in the introduction, this book has taken more than ten years to compile and was written because when the author first started writing it, there were no books about Monty Python. However, the book is now about ten years too late, because we've seen so many Python books since then (First 280 Years of Monty Python, First 200 Years of Monty Python, Life of Python, Life After Python, Monty Python Speaks, Monty Python: A Celebration, Monty Python Encyclopedia), much of them containing more substance than this. The book's format is very similar to the studies by Kim "Howard" Johnson, only with less information. There is a chapter of pre Python days, an introduction to each of the seasons, and a listing of sketches from each show. Sometimes the shows are accompanied by a paragraph of critical analysis, but not always. There is very little else, other than a bibliography and a few frills. I'd say that really the only reason to buy is for the brief explanation of the lost "Wee-Wee" sketch and Graham Chapman's hilarious introduction (written about a year before he died.) 4

Words are flowing out like endless Kool-Aid in a Dixie cup

Jim, John and I discovered the Python's by way of the PBS import of the series in the 1970s. We laughed our heads and other appendages off, but as Jim notes, we weren't sure just why. I like things that are intrinsically funny or interesting without a need for explanation, so when I opened this book I wondered if learning who Lord So-And-So was or gaining details about the other people and places lampooned by the troupe would be a bit like explaining a joke. Well it wasn't like that at all. It was like Christmas and your birthday and the first time you were sweaty in the backseat of... no it wasn't really like that either. But, it was a pleasant sort of experience and didn't hurt at all. In fact I think it really adds to the enjoyment of the series.... a lot. Really I do. I wouldn't just say that. Look, go and get a copy of this book and see for yourself. Maybe I should have said "buy a copy of this book". Anyway, first watch the entire series without the book. Then, read the book and keep it beside you as a guide and constant companion as you watch them all again and again. Soon the book will begin to speak to you and tell you what it's true mission is. Listen carefully... I know I have. 1891847058_us 1149507534000 us unread

1858482720 The Album of the Soundtrack of the Trailer of the Film of Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Virgin Chattering Classics) Book 1975 Listen for Pleasure http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1858482720.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1858482720.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1858482720.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg Films, cinema Humour Audio Cassette 1858482720 This item is currently not available. 1858482720_us 1149507595000 us unread

1882770722 The Ball Python Book Philippe De Vosjoli Philippe De Vosjoli February, 2005 Advanced Vivarium Systems http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1882770722.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1882770722.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1882770722.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $8.95 $8.95 $5.91 $8.95 $5.64 222161 Pets Reptiles, Amphibians & Terrariums Paperback 1882770722 Usually ships in 24 hours 5.0 1 5

Basic and Thorough

I enjoyed this book very much, especially all the information on breeding and morphs. If I had this book before, my poor python wouldn't have gotten burned on the heat source in his enclosure. The best book for the price that I've seen. 0793810221 0793802601 0764111248 1882770706 1882770358 1882770722_us 1149507414000 us unread

3980826414 The Ball Python: Care, Breeding and Natural History, Second Revised & Expanded Edition Book Andreas Kirschner Hermann Seufer 31 December, 2003 Kirschner & Seufer Verlag http://images.amazon.com/images/P/3980826414.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/3980826414.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/3980826414.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $36.99 $36.99 $29.50 331700 2VZTJMVANPS1H 2AX28505ZJUUW Paperback 3980826414 Usually ships in 24 hours 3980826414_us 1149507423000 us unread

1593271069 The Book of JavaScript, 2nd Edition: A Practical Guide to Interactive Web Pages Book thau! 21 July, 2006 No Starch Press http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1593271069.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1593271069.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1593271069.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $39.95 $26.37 1431338 Computer Bks - Languages / Programming Computer Books: Languages Computers Computers - Languages / Programming Internet - Web Site Design JavaScript (Computer program language) Programming - General Programming Languages - CGI, Javascript, Perl, VBScript Computers / Programming Languages / CGI, JavaScript, Perl, VBScript Java & variants JavaScript, javascript, Javascript, forms, cookies, cookie, rollover, functions, frames, image map, web programming, web design, website design, array, loop, strings, CGI Paperback 1 1593271069 Not yet released. 1593271069_us 1149507619000 us unread

1593270585 The Book of MaxDB: MySQL for the Enterprise Book John Singleton 30 April, 2006 No Starch Press http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1593270585.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1593270585.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1593270585.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $44.95 $44.95 92442 20BJTYAK6I51R Computer Bks - Data Base Management Computer Books: Languages Computers Computers - Data Base Management Database Management - SQL Server Database management MySQL (Electronic resource) Programming - General Programming Languages - SQL Computers / Database Management / General MySQL, MaxDB, database, PHP, Python, Java, Perl, Open Source, Oracle, PostgreSQL, enterprise, SAP, ERP Paperback 1 1593270585 Special Order 1593270585_us 1149507414000 us unread

1593271034 The Book of Python: From the Tip of the Tongue to the End of the Tale Book John Goebel Adil Hasan Francesco Tehrani 30 September, 2006 No Starch Press http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1593271034.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1593271034.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1593271034.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $49.95 $31.47 3081837 Computer Books: Languages Computers Computers - Languages / Programming Programming Languages - General Programming Languages - Python Python (Computer program language) Computers / Programming Languages / General Python Paperback 1 1593271034 Not yet released. 1593271034_us 1149507414000 us unread

0413319709 The Brand new Monty Python papperbok [sic] (A Methuen paperback) Book 1974 Eyre Methuen http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0413319709.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0413319709.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0413319709.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $10.84 1532042 30D027HMFOJDQ Unknown Binding 0413319709 This item is currently not available. 4.0 1 4

Hard to remember - impossible to forget - I WANT THAT BOOK!

As my mid-life crisis climaxes (well at least one part of me should!), questions keep popping into my head: "How did I end up here?" "Are these kids mine?" "Where is my Monty Python Book?!?" Of all the purchases I made in my formative years, it seems that this one, perhaps along with Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon", was the most discriminating. Which makes it all that more annoying that I can no longer find the book! Did it simply disappear? Did one of the various flat-mates and visitors of the time borrow it? Was it a victim of a certain-member-of-my-family's value judgement about suitable bookshelf material for our home?I find it impossible to forget some parts of the book: the colour page; bloody tennis; the M page; but the rest is getting harder and harder to remember.Checking out Amazon for professional reasons (web design), I casually typed in "Monty Python". There in the HUGE list of titles, down towards the end, was the bok (sic). Web-design ?!?! This site is brilliant! "(Hard to Find)" - How did they know? I WANT THAT BOOK! 0413319709_us 1149507595000 us unread

0413301303 The Brand new Monty Python papperbok [sic] (A Methuen paperback) Book 1974 Eyre Methuen http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0413301303.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0413301303.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0413301303.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $65.80 2646568 2T1CXH5C0E4KT Unknown Binding 0413301303 This item is currently not available. 0413301303_us 1149507595000 us unread

9780971319 The Complete Ball Python: A Comprehensive Guide to Care, Breeding and Genetic Mutations Book Kevin McCurley 2005 ECO & Serpent's Tale Nat Hist Books http://images.amazon.com/images/P/9780971319.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/9780971319.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/9780971319.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $59.95 537030 Hardcover 9780971319 This item is currently not available. 5.0 1 5

The Best of the Best-truly comprehensive

This is hands down the best guide on ball pythons in existence. I have recently built up a small crew of soon to be breeders (hets for piebald, hets for albino and a lemon pastel plus some normal females) and find the most essential aspect of husbandry is to be an informed "parent". I have purchased several books and this book is by far the most well rounded. The pictures are amazing, the text is straightforward, and the topics are diverse. The author includes a wonderful section on different morphs as well as pictures to match. This is essential for any keeper of ball pythons whether you have only 1 or 1000 snakes its definitely a must have!! You will need few books in addition to this one if you are a ball python breeder. Thankyou Kevin for writing such a fantastic book-well worth the money!!! B000A8G1QY 1882770358 0764117068 0793810221 1882770072 9780971319_us 1149507423000 us unread

068531023X The Complete Monty Python's Flying Circus Book November, 1989 Pantheon Books http://images.amazon.com/images/P/068531023X.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/068531023X.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/068531023X.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $39.37 $39.39 $87.75 1620907 Monty Python's flying circus ( Paperback 068531023X This item is currently not available. 5.0 1 5

The Compiled Scripts of Monty Python - Reviewed

I read this book for the first time 4 months ago. I remembered a "skit" I had seen that I thought to be very funny. So I got a copy of the book and found the scene. I read it to some friends. At the time I didn't realise the absolute power that the book held. It went back onto my shelf for about three weeks, until one day, I was given a tape recording of the skit "Fish Licence". I remebered the skit very well and I also remember rolling around on the floor, splitting my sides with laughter. I realised what this 600 page book could really do, and so I carried it everywhere with me. I read such skits as "Dead Parrot", "The Ministry of Silly Walks" and "The Spanish Inquisition". My friends also thought of this book as "The Holy Grail"(hehe). After a while I thought to myself, "Instead of looking up different skits in the index, why not read the book from the beginning?" So I did. I read and read until I was exhausted from laughter. I sat quietly and watched "Monty Python's Life of Brian" on the TV. After about two weeks of solid reading, I completed the 600 page anthology, and it returned back to its position on my bookshelf above my desk. It was no longer nesessary to carry the book everywhere, because I had memorized all the important skits. I give this book "5 Stars", not because I think that it is "the best book in the world" (frankly I think it is better than that), but actually because I think it must be the funniest book I have ever read. 068531023X_us 1149507586000 us unread

0679726470 The Complete Monty Python's Flying Circus : All the Words, Volume 1 Book Graham Chapman Monty Python 12 November, 1989 Pantheon http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0679726470.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0679726470.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0679726470.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $16.95 $11.53 $1.80 $7.53 $7.25 45302 1E3CZXYSULHJ6 V7DRH5RYJCMI 30D027HMFOJDQ Form - Parodies Humor Television - General Television Plays And Programs Humor / Parodies Paperback 1 0679726470 Usually ships in 24 hours If you haven't yet memorized any of Monty Python's scripts, here's your chance. It's difficult to read this book without breaking into a broken English accent -- or at least without laughing aloud. Alarm luckless pedestrians as you gesticulate wildly with an halibut, learn how to determine whether a parrot is really dead or not... "Nudge, nudge. Snap snap. Grin, grin, wink, wink, say no more". 4.5 26 3

What the books make one realize

That Monty Python is actually very limited a franchise. These few Python book which script the entire series in it's four year run (as there was only a few eps each year) really leave one saying "Is that all the fuss is about?" Sure there were Python movies (but about half of these films were simply rehashes of the series). I never understood when Python became so big. In the late 70's they were just something I watched on a UHF station latenight. Benny Hill was really funnier than Python (even the UHF station advertised Hill that way) but he didn't become as much of a franchise. Python shouldn't of either. Really there isn't that much to it! 5

Great!

A great book for any Monty Python fan. Like the title said "All The Words". I got both books (1 & 2) along with the dvd set and I read along with the dvd. Also great for sketches seeing as the desribe the scene as stuff is going on. 5

I laughed until I stopped

As a fan of MPFC since it first aired on PBS in 1973, these two volumes sort of put a cap on a 30 year fascination with the team. Maybe like me, you've watched every Python-Marathon or taped every show, but having these scripts really is the icing on the cake. What's striking to me is the simplicity of the scripts. When you watch the episodes, the gags seem so complicated. Then to see The Dead Parrot sketch reduced to just a few pages, you realize how brilliant those guys were in terms of compression, and in terms of acting. An added plus, for me at least, was to finally see the words and phrases that I never quite "got" because they were unique to British English. From there, I logged on to a few websites on British slang and, boy, I realized what MPFC got away with...some of it was pretty raunchy. Anyway, this is two-volume set is priceless for any fan. 0679726489 0413741206 0380804794 B00005O7NE 0413741303 0679726470_us 1149507586000 us unread

0679726489 The Complete Monty Python's Flying Circus : All the Words, Volume 2 Book Monty Python Graham Chapman Eric Idle Terry Gilliam Terry Jones 12 November, 1989 Pantheon http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0679726489.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0679726489.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0679726489.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $16.00 $11.20 $2.00 $4.38 $4.60 49464 1E3CZXYSULHJ6 V7DRH5RYJCMI NNFAQCHBB8LB Form - Parodies Humor Movie/Tv Tie-Ins Television - General Television Plays And Programs Humor / Parodies Paperback 1 0679726489 Usually ships in 24 hours 5.0 6 5

The goat's done a bundle

FYI-This is the same as the review of Volume 1. There was no real sense in distinguishing the two.As a fan of MPFC since it first aired on PBS in 1973, these two volumes sort of put a cap on a 30 year fascination with the team. Maybe like me, you've watched every Python-Marathon or taped every show, but having these scripts really is the icing on the cake. What's striking to me is the simplicity of the scripts. When you watch the episodes, the gags seem so complicated. Then to see The Dead Parrot sketch reduced to just a few pages, you realize how brilliant those guys were in terms of compression, and in terms of acting. An added plus, for me at least, was to finally see the words and phrases that I never quite "got" because they were unique to British English. From there, I logged on to a few websites on British slang and, boy, I realized what MPFC got away with...some of it was pretty raunchy. Anyway, this is two-volume set is priceless for any fan. 5

"Ah...it was the middle one."

The Complete Monty Python's Flying Circus: All the Words, Volume 2 is the second half of a set containing the scripts of the entire series (45 episodes). This book, volume 2, contains scripts for episode 24: "How not to be seen" through episode 45: "Party Political Broadcast". This book is more fun than an endless supply of "lupins". Both volumes make great companions to the MPFC video/dvd collection ("There you go, can't be bad.") and also unlike the DVDs, there are no edits, these are the original words. So that horrible "m" word that Graham said in episode 31: "The All England Summarize Proust Competition" is in this book. Enjoy!Yours etc., Brigadier Mainwaring Smith Smith Smith etc., Deceased etc. 5

The companion volume to Volume I is this, Volume II

"It's satire." "No, it isn't. This is zany madcap humour."With that immortal exchange, nearly everything Pythonian is summed up. For those who haven't memorized every single Python skit (or for those who have and who are looking to free up some short-term memory), this book and its companion volume ("All The Words, Volume I") are must-haves. Every single word from every single bit ever done on "Monty Python's Flying Circus" is in here. It's a joy and a treasure and a non-stap laff riot.Every Python nut is familiar with the "wink, wink, nudge, nudge" tale, the dead parrot sketch, the Ministry of Silly Walks and so on. But even beyond these justly famed classics, there is wonderfully silly stuff herein. I never realized until buying this and the companion Volume I how utterly the Python crew had mastered the gorgeously silly non-sequiter. To wit:"Would Albert Einstein ever have hit upon the theory of relativity if he hadn't been clever?""Don't call me señor! I'm not a Spanish person. You must call me Mr. Biggles, or Group Captain Biggles, or Mary Biggles if I'm dressed as my wife, but never señor.""I'm afraid we are unable to show you any more of that letter. We continue with a man with a stoat through his head.""Were you worried when his head started to come loose?"It just doesn't get any better than this, and being able to sit and peruse the scripts without watching the frenetic activity on the screen only goes to strengthen the generally accepted view that these guys were genius writers. As the book back states, these volumes are the winners of "the 1989 PYTHON PRIZE for their own books." ARE there higher honors than this? 0679726470 0413741206 0380804794 B00005O7NE 0413741303 0679726489_us 1149507586000 us unread

0130673765 The Complete Python Training Course (Student Edition) Book Harvey M. Deitel Paul J. Deitel Jonathan P. Liperi Ben Wiedermann 15 July, 2002 Prentice Hall http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0130673765.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0130673765.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0130673765.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $79.20 987293 Computer Books: General Computer Programming Languages Computers Programming Languages - General Paperback 0130673765 This item is currently not available. 5.0 2 5

Good for Beginners - Holding Your Hand

I came to this book almost as a complete beginner. Had downloaded Python 2.something, read Alan Gaud's Tutorial and perhaps some other excelent tuts on the web like Magnus Python. The book is huge. It covers a lot of material and does a good job holding the hand of the newbie throught learning to program. It's very well suited to it's end: Teach someone who as not programmed before! Good job. 5

Having fun learning a new computer language...

Having just finished Chapter 1 and now working on Chapter 2. I just wanted to let you know this is great system for learning Python computer language. Also the example code works fine with version 1.52 of Python on a Palm PDA. And I have it working on my Linux system with version 5 of Win4Lin that lets me run windows under Linux. And that is working great also. Thanks for the great product. John 1590593715 1592000738 0596007973 0130923613 0596002890 0130673765_us 1149507457000 us unread

1590596846 The Definitive Guide to Stellent Content Server Development (Definitive Guide) Book Brian Huff 26 June, 2006 Apress http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1590596846.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1590596846.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1590596846.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $59.99 $59.99 2287627 Computer Books: Internet General Computers Internet - General Internet - World Wide Web Programming - General Java & variants Paperback 1 1590596846 Not yet released. 1590596846_us 1149507666000 us unread

0060951168 The Fairly Incomplete & Rather Badly Illustrated Monty Python Songbook Book Terry Gilliam Gary Marsh John Hurst April, 1995 Harper Perennial http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0060951168.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0060951168.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0060951168.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $14.00 $9.99 853926 30D027HMFOJDQ Acting & Auditioning General Humor Paperback 1 0060951168 This item is currently not available. 5.0 8 4

For Silly Glee Club Members Only

This book is filled with lots of hillarious song lyrics, ranging from the witty to the weird and silly and is useful if you feel the need to sing along to some of your favourite Python songs while listening to a Python* CD, especially when you come across parts where it is difficult to understand what they are singing. Otherwise, I wouldn't recommend buying this book. The artwork is interesting**, but is not worthwhile in itself, and just reading the lyrics is less rewarding than listening to the songs. And none of the songs are new. So if you just like LISTENING to Python CDs and don't feel the need to join in***, there is no point in buying the book. Furthermore, if you want it for playing the songs on the piano, as some of the other reviewers point out, it is often difficult to read, and it is also impossible to prop up properly without causing some damage to the spine (of course if you don't care, you could just cut out the pages, etc.).*Not recommended for singing along to death metal bands... 5

"And Always look on the Bright Side of life.."*Whistle*

Wow. I have the big box set of Monty Python's Flying circus, and had basically memorized all of the songs. I also have most of the movies. So finding this little jewel was a real treat! Now I can play them on my trusty piano, and have the background music. This will make for some weird family reunions :) 5

Inflammation of the foreskin reminds me of your smile. . . .

This is a book for every Monty Python fan out there! It is really excellent, and includes almost all the songs, excluding a few of the lesser ones like "Sgnt Duckie's Song" and "The Window Cleaner Song" but just about everything else is in there. Admittedly, it's a bit annoying about some of the music being illigeble, such as "Eric the Half A Bee" appearing in a sphere shape, and "Bing Tiddle Tiddle Bong" being flipped totally around. However, it's still a great book, and the foreword, afterword, and middleword by Elvis and God are very funny. There's nothing better than to sit down at the piano sometimes and just play magnificent songs like "I've got a Ferret sticking up my nose..." This is a super book! B0007OY2TE 0060951168_us 1149507535000 us unread

0413690008 The Fairly Incomplete and Rather Badly Illustrated Monty Python Song Book Book Graham Chapman John Cleese Terry Gilliam Eric Idle Terry Jones Michael Palin 31 October, 1994 Methuen Publishing Ltd http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0413690008.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0413690008.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0413690008.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $19.00 637435 Humour Musical scores, lyrics & libretti Hardcover 0413690008 This item is currently not available. 0413690008_us 1149507586000 us unread

0312169337 The First 280 Years of Monty Python Book Kim "Howard" Johnson 19 June, 1999 St. Martin's Griffin http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0312169337.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0312169337.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0312169337.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $21.95 $2.90 $12.95 637640 30D027HMFOJDQ 6RC7U21Z9I07 DKJZ3NX7F6T7 Film & Video - History & Criticism General Monty Python (Comedy troupe) Performing Arts Performing Arts/Dance Pop Arts / Pop Culture Television - General Television - History & Criticism Television Plays And Programs Performing Arts / Film / General Paperback 1 0312169337 This item is currently not available. Longtime Python fanatic Kim "Howard" Johnson's update of The First 200 Years of Monty Python retains at its core the nearly blow-by-blow account of each of the 45 classic episodes in which this British troupe blew gale-force fresh air into television comedy. But for this new volume the author has extensively reinterviewed the Pythons, as well as Carol Cleveland (the lone female performer--unless you count the guys in drag); expanded the material on individual members and their work before and after Monty Python's Flying Circus; and added a bibliography of their output in every medium (plus coverage of PythOnline). Johnson first met John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, and the late Graham Chapman in 1978, when he published a Python fanzine, and he actually worked on their third film, Life of Brian. That 21-year relationship gives the book a jovial insider's tone making it a nice complement to David Morgan's more conventional oral history, Monty Python Speaks! Johnson conscientiously profiles every manifestation of Python's creative madness, but his first loves remain "The Spanish Inquisition," "Cheese Shop," "Dead Parrot," and all the other insanely inventive sketches that are as fresh and funny in reruns as they were 280 years ago. --Wendy Smith 4.5 15 3

One for the completists among us (this means you)

This had been on my "To Read" shelf since 1990 (I know because I was using the sales receipt as a bookmark). A biased, glowing look at the Pythons, it is full of useless but amusing trivia, which is exactly what Python fanatics like myself buy these books for. As a history, it's nowhere near the level of Hill and Weingard's Saturday Night (a look at the making of Saturday Night Live and its myriad cast members), but as histories of the series goes, it's about as good as it gets. There's also a complete vid/bib/discography in the back for those completists out there. 5

Attention MP fans!

If you are a MP fan, you must own this book! Lots of memories and laughs. 5

The ultimate guide to Python...

This is a fantastic guide to Monty Python. Pre-Python, The TV Show, the films, the records: it's all there. It is full of facts & photos. I often refer to it while I'm watching a Python TV show or film on DVD. There are other books about Python, but none that cover the history so thouroughly. It's a very enjoyable, funny read. I particularly like the Pre-Python photo comic from Harvey Kurtzman's Help Magazine, which is reprinted in the book. It features John Cleese as a man who falls in love with his daughter's Barbie doll. This book, combined with David Morgan's book Monty Python Speaks, will tell you everything you want to know about Monty Python. 0380804794 0679726470 0679726489 0413760103 0413750000 0312169337_us 1149507534000 us unread

9966868186 The foolish python (Sparkle adventure series) Book Juliet Bell 1999 Horizon Books http://images.amazon.com/images/P/9966868186.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/9966868186.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/9966868186.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg Unknown Binding 9966868186 This item is currently not available. 9966868186_us 1149507534000 us unread

1882770064 The General Care and Maintenance of Ball Pythons (The Herpetocultural Library) Book Philippe de Vosjoli 1990 Advanced Vivarium Systems http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1882770064.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1882770064.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1882770064.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $0.32 $3.56 $4.75 1377443 Paperback 1882770064 This item is currently not available. 1882770064_us 1149507586000 us unread

1882770072 The General Care and Maintenance of Burmese Pythons: Including Notes on Other Large Pythons (General Care and Maintenance of Series) Book Philippe De Vosjoli March, 1991 Advanced Vivarium Systems http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1882770072.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1882770072.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1882770072.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $7.50 $7.50 $3.49 768632 JBUK1P8RGED1 3ND4GSPM4TRCM Pets Reptiles & Amphibians Reptiles, Amphibians & Terrariums Burmese pythons as pets Pythons Paperback 1 1882770072 Usually ships in 11 to 14 days 4.0 2 4

Handy info and relatively thorough!

This little booklet may be small, lack color photos, and appear a little outdated, but it covers care and husbandry of Burmese pythons in considerably more depth than I've found in several other books. I am a breeder of Burmese pythons and highly recommend this book to everyone who buys my snakes. You just can't beat having this level of detail at your fingertips for the price. If you own or plan to own a Burmese python this booklet will help you out on the basics of cage design, feeding regimens, handling, disease, and even breeding techniques. If everyone who owned these animals followed all the tips in this booklet, all the captive Burms would be better cared for, which might even help eliminate the bad rap these snakes often acquire. 4

The General Care and Maintenance of Burmese Pythons

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B000737HSS The giant snakes: The natural history of the boa constrictor, the anaconda, and the largest pythons, including comparative facts about other snakes and basic information on reptiles in general Book Clifford Hillhouse Pope 01 January, 1973 Knopf http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000737HSS.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000737HSS.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000737HSS.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $24.99 $24.00 Anaconda Boa constrictor Pythons Unknown Binding B000737HSS This item is currently not available. B000737HSS_us 1149507595000 us unread

0689820593 The Greedy Python Book Richard Buckley Eric Carle 01 January, 1995 Little Simon http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0689820593.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0689820593.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0689820593.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $6.99 $6.99 $1.79 $3.90 $4.00 396318 33DORMK7P8SEY Animals - Reptiles & Amphibians Children's Baby - Boardbooks Children: Preschool Fiction Food habits Juvenile Fiction Legends, Myths, & Fables - General Legends, Myths, & Fables - Other Pythons Snakes Juvenile Fiction / Animals / Reptiles & Amphibians Board book 1 0689820593 Usually ships in 24 hours 4.0 4 2

Food Obsessed

The Greedy Python and The Very Hungry Caterpillar are my least favorite of the books Carle has illustrated. They are both food obsessed and give mixed messages about over-eating. A great Carle book is Have You Seen My Cat. 4

Cute for all ages

I have 3 children, ages 5, 3 & 1. My two oldest think The Greedy Python is a funny book. The illustrations are awesome- as all of Eric Carle's work is. The story teaches a good lesson in selfishness and greediness. The greedy python is eating everything in sight and even after getting too full to hold anymore he sees one last thing to eat. He winds up gulping down his tail and eventually disappearing. It's a really good lesson for all children to learn. It's also easy reading. 5

Great for beginning readers!

Beginning reader in our house really likes this book as he uses the illistrations to "cue" him into the words. There are many subject areas that can be explored as a result of the book, reading, math, science...For an older child who is slower learning to read, this is excellent as there are multisyllable words and a 'story line' that holds their interest. 0064431622 0694007099 0399226842 0064434508 0399234276 0689820593_us 1149507535000 us unread

3980826406 The Green Tree Python and Emerald Tree Boa: Care, Breeding and Natural History, Second Extended Edition Book Ron Kivit Stephen Wiseman Andreas Kirschner 31 December, 2005 Kirschner & Seufer Verlag http://images.amazon.com/images/P/3980826406.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/3980826406.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/3980826406.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $54.99 $54.99 $43.03 $43.04 377448 Paperback 3980826406 Usually ships in 7 to 13 days 3980826406_us 1149507414000 us unread

0793803829 The Guide to Owning a Python (Guide to Owning A...) Book Jerry G. Walls August, 2001 TFH Publications http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0793803829.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0793803829.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0793803829.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $9.95 $9.95 $7.37 $3.99 1683585 Pets Reptiles, Amphibians & Terrariums Paperback 1 0793803829 Usually ships in 24 hours 018214103820 0793803829_us 1149507501000 us unread

079382057X The Guide to Owning an Australian Python Book John Coborn July, 1999 TFH Publications http://images.amazon.com/images/P/079382057X.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/079382057X.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/079382057X.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $9.95 $9.95 $3.90 $4.99 1450378 Animals / Pets Pets Reptiles, Amphibians & Terrariums Paperback 1 079382057X Usually ships in 24 hours 1.0 1 1

Nice pics, poor info

I have a jungle carpet python, Morelia spilota cheynei. The book listed its sci. name as Python spilotus vareigatus cheynei. They have warped their true names, eliminating the Morelia classification. I have seen better info in the Barron's series, which I recommend. Here, the pics are great, but the info is poor. Do not buy. 079382057X_us 1149507534000 us unread

0793802636 The Guide to Owning Burmese Pythons Book John Coborn March, 1995 TFH Publications http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0793802636.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0793802636.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0793802636.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $9.95 $9.95 $1.65 $3.24 569910 Animals Pets Reptiles & Amphibians Reptiles, Amphibians & Terrariums Paperback 1 0793802636 Usually ships in 24 hours 018214102632 3.5 2 3

Very Broad, but Great Photos

The photography in this book was excellent, very vivid. Yet the information was very broad. It barley thouches the scales of the burmese python. Yet it is a good introductory book. It also indroduces chicken as a good food source, but rabbits much better food .(Due to Somimilla, however you spell it)The book a never lets you fully grasp the potenical power and size of the burmese. Nor the dangers, and others who have been hurt or killed by them. Despite this it is a wonderful and imformitive book for beginners! 4

Laymans Beginners Guide - Excellent

There are a number of 'good' snakes books on the market although there seem to be few that are specie specific. This is the first book I have read of this nature and have found it interesting and extremely informative (baring in mind that this is only a book intended as an introductory guide). It covers all aspects from accomodation and feeding through to suggested medical practices. The book is designed more as an informative read in 'laymans' terms rather than bogging down the reader with all the technical jargon normally associated with herpetology. 60 odd pages. A worthy read if you have no specific books on this subspecie. 1882770072 1882770358 0812093658 1580080359 1882770218 0793802636_us 1149507535000 us unread

0793820650 The Guide to Owning Tree Boas and Tree Pythons Book Tom Mazorlig July, 1999 TFH Publications http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0793820650.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0793820650.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0793820650.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $9.95 $9.95 $6.25 $4.99 771853 Pets Reptiles, Amphibians & Terrariums Paperback 1 0793820650 Usually ships in 24 hours 0764126865 0812096266 1882770358 1882770218 0812093658 0793820650_us 1149507534000 us unread

B0007C9GS8 The hunter and the python (Foundation children series) (Foundation children series) Book Joseph M Mwale 01 January, 1989 Kenneth Kaunda Foundation http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0007C9GS8.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0007C9GS8.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0007C9GS8.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg Children's literature, African Unknown Binding B0007C9GS8 This item is currently not available. B0007C9GS8_us 1149507595000 us unread

1575000164 The Immortal Works of William Shakespeare: And Some Other Garbage from Monty Python (Monty Python's Flying Circus) Book Monty Python October, 1996 TV Books Inc http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1575000164.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1575000164.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1575000164.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $19.95 4004025 Humor Paperback 1575000164 This item is currently not available. 4.0 1 4

jeff foxworthy's no shoes no shirt no problems

this book is composed of short stories in jeff's life. it is full of southern redneck humor, that which any foxworthy fan knows and loves. but you don't have to be a fan of foxworthy to enjoy the humor conveyed in the stories in jeff's youth. this is a must read book for anyone in the need for a good laugh at the end of a hard day. 1575000164_us 1149507535000 us unread

0321334205 The Java(TM) Tutorial : A Short Course on the Basics (4th Edition) (Java Series) Book Sharon Zakhour Scott Hommel Jacob Royal Isaac Rabinovitch Tom Risser Mark Hoeber 29 December, 2006 Addison-Wesley Professional http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0321334205.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0321334205.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0321334205.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $49.99 $31.49 768723 Computer Bks - Languages / Programming Computer Books: Languages Computers Computers - Languages / Programming Programming Languages - Java Computers / Programming Languages / Java Paperback 1 0321334205 Not yet released. 3.5 18 3

Tutorial Good. Age Bad. Covers out of date version.

Alas, the hazards of bound books. Note that this was published in 2001. It covers JDK 1.3, also known as Java 2. The current revision is JDK 5 (which would be 1.5 if they kept the old naming conventions, I think). That said,it should be sufficient for a lot of folks - but likely frustrating if you have the latest releases of software, since all the detailed commands will have changed (along with some of the function calls...). Sun keeps up to date copies (downloadable) on line of all these tutorials, so I'd suggest going there first, although having two disparate copies on the go may be more trouble than it's worth, and you may end up ignoring the print version in favor of the on-line. Me, I'm keeping these for reference and have gone out and bought up to date books from other publishers. 1

Confusing and Useless

This book is at best a jumble of words with a few readable sentences, and at worst could be written in greek for all the good it does. Without a clear path, the book bounces around off different subjects, and all to often goes ahead of itself in the examples. NOTHING is more anoying then finding a piece of code that you've never seen, and isn't explained for another 4 chapters afterwords. Especially in the first few sections its not uncomon to find an 'ignore this line "..." you'll find out what its for later'. On the upside, it has very few typo's, which doesn't help much as the chapters are so confusing. The best part of this book would have to be its analogies, which are amazingly sensable, such as relating objects and classes to bicycles (One class, 'bicycle' objects of the class such as 'racing' or 'mountain'). In all, its a bit above average but there are much better choices out there for the same price 3

Woefully Inadequate on Basics

For someone already familiar with C type programming this is probably an excellent book. It has lots of examples, great linked online resources, a pretty good index, and is one of the most error-free technical books I have read in 5 years of programming. However, this is NOT the book for those with no C (or maybe VB) type programming background. The authors jump right in using the Java language. While this makes it more interesting it leaves non-C programmers to wonder about the constructs. Examples area great IF they explain everything new that is introduced. For example, the following are used in the first part of the book: String[ ] args String args[ ] String[ ][ ]But it is not until nearly halfway through the book (end of Ch 4 of 10) that array constructs are discussed. And even then I don't recall any discussion of the difference between the first and second example above. Another example:Sleep((int)(Math.random() ...))What is this? Casting maybe? Casting is not even in the index so you just have to guess.This book needs 2 things to make it excellent: First, an appendix that clearly and thoroughly explains the constructs, syntax rules, and naming conventions - all in one place. For example, what do the curly braces signify, why are empty parens or empty curly braces or semi-colons used, when do you use String[ ] args vs String args[ ] - the works. Secondly, it needs more comments in the examples, including the reasoning involved (eg why variable was declared outside instead of inside method) and an explanation when anything new is used. Admittedly, experienced programmers will not want heavily commented examples, so making those available on line would be a good solution. 0201485583 0201914670 032124575X 0201704331 0596009208 0321334205_us 1149507608000 us unread

0975240269 The JavaScript Anthology : 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks Book Cameron Adams James Edwards 02 March, 2006 SitePoint http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0975240269.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0975240269.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0975240269.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $39.95 $25.17 $20.65 $39.95 $23.39 14166 Computer Books: Languages Computers Computers - Languages / Programming Internet - Web Site Design Programming Languages - CGI, Javascript, Perl, VBScript Computers / Programming Languages / CGI, JavaScript, Perl, VBScript JavaScript, java script, Jscript, AJAX, DHTML, DOM, Document Object Model, css, cascading style sheets, dynamic html Paperback 1 0975240269 Usually ships in 24 hours 4.5 7 5

VERY VERY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!

Are you involved or interested in building web sites or web applications? If you are, then this book is for you! Authors Cameron Adams and James Edwards, have done an outstanding job of writing a practical book for webmasters who are looking for a copy-and-paste solutions to everyday needs. Adams and James Edwards, begin by providing an overview of JavaScript's capabilities and limitations, and introduce some core best practices that they'll be using through the rest of the book. Then, the authors look at techniques for using and processing numbers in JavaScript. They continue by looking at ways of manipulating strings to find information, storing data, and preparing test for output; as well as, including a thorough introduction to regular expressions in JavaScript. Next, the authors introduce you to one of the most powerful data-storage structures in JavaScript: the array. Then, the authors introduce and explore DOM, and look at how to create and read the data from elements, attributes, and text. Then, they look at reading and writing data from different kinds of form widget, address the tasks of validating and processing form data, and discuss techniques for improving the usability of form-based interfaces. They also take a cautious look at manipulating windows and scripting across frames. Next, the authors introduce cookies and show you how to use them effectively. Then, they show you how to get the date and time in JavaScript, how to compare and process dates and times, and how to output the final data in different formats and conventions. They continue by exploring the basic techniques involved in scripting for images. Next, the authors outline techniques for dealing with different browsers and rendering modes. Then, they look at how to read and write the styles from a single element or group of elements, how to read and write CSS rules to an existing or created style sheet, and how to build a style sheet switcher. The authors also cover event-handling in all its flavors, detecting the position and size of an object, tracking the mouse, and making elements appear and disappear. Next, they look at more complex forms of scripting that use motion and animation. Then, the authors include solutions for the problem of menus overlapping select elements in Windows IE 5 and IE 6. They also provide an overview of the current state of play regarding JavaScript and accessibility. The authors continue by showing you how to detect whether a user has the Flash plugin, and mastering communications between JavaScript and Flash. Next, they delve into the exciting area of online application design, including data retrieved using XMLHttpRequest, as well as the older technique of using iframes. Then, the authors introduce OOP, exploring its core concepts and benefits. Finally, the authors look at everyday techniques for writing faster, more efficient code that's shorter and uses less memory. In this most excellent book, you'll find scripts and discussions that sit on the bleeding edge of current practice. More importantly, you'll find this book a useful and inspirational resource for modern, best practice scripting. 5

Well-written, great cookbook

The book contains well-written code, with good explanations. You will use the recipes in your code, particularly the div-based error message dialog, and the menus. Worth the price. 4

Very Useful Book

As someone who only dabbles in Javascript from time to time I found the book useful and informative. The authors are careful to offer best practices with regard to accessibility and explain in detail the why and wherefore of each technique used. The section on dhtml drop down menus is very good and covers the subject in close detail and was relatively easy to follow. Even though the topic was more advanced than my current level I could still understand what was going on and would be able to manipulate the code even if I couldn't write it from scratch. There are many other similar topics and I'm sure I will be dipping into this book often. 1590595335 0957921888 1590596145 1932394613 0321346939 0975240269_us 1149507375000 us unread

1556902751 The Jungle Books I Book Rudyard Kipling Flo Gibson 1992 Recorded Books, LLC http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1556902751.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1556902751.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1556902751.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $9.90 3220978 Audio Cassette Unabridged 1556902751 This item is currently not available. 1556902751_us 1149507586000 us unread

9782446203 The kind python and other stories for nursery & primary schools Book Afiong A Udo 1987 Paico Ltd. (Press & Books) http://images.amazon.com/images/P/9782446203.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/9782446203.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/9782446203.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg Unknown Binding 9782446203 This item is currently not available. 9782446203_us 1149507595000 us unread

1561385689 The Life of Python: The History of Something Completely Different Book George Perry March, 1995 Running Pr http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1561385689.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1561385689.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1561385689.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $16.95 $1.38 $3.50 $2.50 1722777 1ZBTMYM8Y1731 Comedy (Performing Arts) General Movie/Tv Tie-Ins Pop Arts / Pop Culture Specific Performing Companies Paperback 1 1561385689 This item is currently not available. 3.5 5 1

where is the REAL "SOMETHING DIFFERENT!!!"

Where is Mark Reed's REAL "SOMETHING DIFFERENT!!!" 4

A Wonderful Beginner's Guide

I found this book very interesting. I liked how Perry wrote an introduction of British Comedy leading up to Python. This gives you an idea of what the Pythons were up against.I also thought it was nice to split up the book into the mini biographies of each Python and then to go into the Python years as a whole. I especially enjoyed the sections on John Cleese and Michael Palin. Perry has a way of picking out the more interesting details. He does a good job of outlining the Pythons early careers in television and comedy. I was also introduced to a few post-Python projects through this book.This is a great book, although there are better in-depth ones. I would reccomend this book for those who are unfamiliar with Monty Python and who want to learn more, but individual biographies of each Python would be better if you want to get a more in-depth view of the Python People. Otherwise, a fantastic resource. 4

Great illustrations and coverage but repetitious

As a college student in the seventies, Monty Python's Flying Circus was part of my growing-up. Their brand of insane humor seems almost natural to me, since it was such a part of my life. This book, however, makes clear how revolutionary it really was. Mostly, though, it's a history of Python, from what led into it both on television and at Oxford and (particularly) Cambridge, how it came about, and what happened afterwards. It discusses who worked with whom throughout (including on the show, which is significant: Graham Chapman and John Cleese were one pairing, Terry Jones and Michael Palin were another, while Eric Idle and Terry Gilliam tended to work alone).It's copiously illustrated, including a demonstration of silly walks in the upper-right-hand corner that one can experience in motion by flipping the pages rapidly. My only quibble is that there seems to be an inordinate fondness for photographs from lesser-known efforts like Erik the Viking and The Missionaries. The text is good overall, though it could be better organized. Early chapters cover the careers of each of the Pythons individually, then return to their history as a group. Since many of the Pythons worked together after the program went off, there's a significant amount of repetition as a result.Overall, though, this is an excellent overview and appreciation of the Pythons and their remarkable accomplishments in bringing us a new brand of comedy. 1561385689_us 1149507535000 us unread

0953544699 The Non-inflatable Monty Python TV Companion Book Jim Toakum 01 January, 1999 Right Recordings Limited http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0953544699.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0953544699.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0953544699.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $106.76 TV tie-in humour Television Paperback 0953544699 This item is currently not available. 0953544699_us 1149507534000 us unread

B000B957KI The pig in the python : An article from: Fedgazette Ebook Ronald A Wirtz 02 September, 2005 Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000B957KI.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000B957KI.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000B957KI.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $10.00 $10.00 Digital HTML Available for download now B000B957KI_us 1149507501000 us unread

B000BE6C3Y The pig in the python: Is lumpy capacity investment used and useful? : An article from: Energy Law Journal Ebook William J Baumol J Gregory Sidak 12 September, 2005 Foundation of the Energy Law Journal http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000BE6C3Y.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000BE6C3Y.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000BE6C3Y.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $20.00 $20.00 3063948 Digital HTML Available for download now B000BE6C3Y_us 1149507457000 us unread

1871307244 The Python and the Pepperpot Book Keith Faulkner Jonathan Lambert 21 October, 1988 Egmont Childrens Books http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1871307244.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1871307244.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1871307244.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $59.09 Paperback 1871307244 This item is currently not available. 1871307244_us 1149507595000 us unread

0383039118 The Python Caught the Eagle Book June, 1997 Sra http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0383039118.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0383039118.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0383039118.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $56.00 $56.00 Children: Grades 2-3 Paperback 0383039118 Special Order 0383039118_us 1149507535000 us unread

0383036488 The Python Caught the Eagle (Voyages) Book David Drew January, 1994 SRA/McGraw-Hill http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0383036488.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0383036488.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0383036488.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $2.50 $9.99 Hardcover 1 0383036488 This item is currently not available. 0383036488_us 1149507586000 us unread

0226310051 The Python Killer : Stories of Nzema Life Book Vinigi L. Grottanelli 23 May, 1988 University Of Chicago Press http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0226310051.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0226310051.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0226310051.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $42.50 $42.50 $1.16 $10.45 $10.40 2195785 Ethnology And Ethnography Folklore General Nzima (African people) Social Science Social life and customs Sociology Social Science / General Hardcover 1 0226310051 Usually ships in 11 to 13 days 0226310051_us 1149507595000 us unread

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B000EU3ZUS the Python Project (A Rex Carver Novel) Book Victor Canning 1968 William Morrow http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000EU3ZUS.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000EU3ZUS.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000EU3ZUS.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $5.25 938457 Hardcover B000EU3ZUS This item is currently not available. B000EU3ZUS_us 1149507595000 us unread

0745171761 The Python Project (Portway Large Print) Book Victor Canning December, 1989 G K Hall & Co http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0745171761.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0745171761.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0745171761.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $21.95 $5.22 $7.00 3746905 Large Print Large print books Large type books Hardcover Large Print 0745171761 This item is currently not available. 0745171761_us 1149507586000 us unread

0340566787 The Python Who Cried Book Barry Hyland Pat Noonan 18 October, 1994 Hodder & Stoughton General Division http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0340566787.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0340566787.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0340566787.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg English Fiction Paperback 0340566787 This item is currently not available. 0340566787_us 1149507586000 us unread

0897897072 The Python's Back : Pathways of Comparison Between Indonesia and Melanesia Book Andrew Strathern Pamela J. Stewart 30 May, 2000 Bergin & Garvey http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0897897072.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0897897072.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0897897072.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $97.95 $97.95 $108.54 $108.54 3023237 Anthropology - Cultural Comparative Social Systems Comparative method Cultural And Social Anthropology Ethnology Indonesia Melanesia Social Science Social life and customs Sociology Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural Hardcover 1 0897897072 Usually ships in 24 hours 0897897072_us 1149507501000 us unread

0312311451 The Pythons : Autobiography Book The Pythons Graham Chapman Michael Palin John Cleese Terry Gilliam Eric Idle Terry Jones Bob McCabe 15 November, 2005 St. Martin's Griffin http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0312311451.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0312311451.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0312311451.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $19.95 $12.97 $6.85 $19.95 $7.76 103437 Biography / Autobiography Entertainment & Performing Arts - Actors & Actresses Monty Python (Comedy troupe) Performing Arts Performing Arts/Dance Personal Memoirs Television - General Performing Arts / Television / General Paperback 1 0312311451 Usually ships in 24 hours Python fans will need to clear a large space on their bookshelf or coffee table for The Pythons--a big, vital autobiography of the comedy troupe. This is an oral history by the six members (Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin) from birth to--in the case of Chapman--death. We get reminisces about childhood, university days, early successes, and rich details about the landmark Flying Circus TV series and subsequent films. The voices are fresh (with expectation of Michael Palin's insightful diary entries), not just complied from earlier publications. "Due to his insistence of being inconveniently dead," Chapham's voice is heard through his longtime partner David Sherlock, his brother and sister-in-law (and some archival materials). As a whole, the six impart a refreshing ability to deal honestly with the frustrations that arose over the years and it comes out in the text even when events are recalled differently. The book is not a light read (figuratively and literally), perhaps a smaller size would have been better for the amount of text; a cursory glance at the coffee table is tough. What does fill the book is an abundance of photos (over 1,000), most never published and many from the troupe's private collections. Along with concept sketches, Gilliam's drawings and doodles, and a few correspondences, this is a keepsake memento of the legendary group. --Doug Thomas 4.0 25 3

Because so much of this we've heard before...

One should place the work of the Pythons in context that, outside of four films and the stage shows, the television show itself was only on for five seasons (that's five British seasons, which are significantly shorter), so I suppose it might be seen as quibbling that so much of, if not all of what is covered in this work most people who opted for a love of the Pythons over a social existence, either by force or by choice, are already familiar with. If you have the Life of Python, the films with the commentaries/featurettes, Graham's Lecture Tour DVD, or any of the previous books, then you know this material probably better than you know most Python skits. It's no wonder the text is remaindered now. Whether on film or in print, the surviving cast members can't/don't seem to want to come up with any new material. Signed, epsteinsmutha 1

This CD audiobook has to have been an afterthought (the hardcover was great!)

For 30 years or so, I've been a major Monty Python fan, and bought this CD audiobook after thoroughly enjoying the hardback. What a disappointment! If I could give it zero stars, I would - and I've never wanted to do that before in a review. Having read the book, I knew this wasn't a performance CD - I just wanted to hear the stories from the book as told by the Pythons themselves, in their own voices. Unfortunately that was exactly the problem: As has already been pointed out by others here, the audio quality is wretched. I had to listen hard in most places to be able to make out the words, and that's no way to enjoy listening to a book. I tried it with speakers and with headphones, volume up and volume down, and nothing helped. Here's my theory: I don't believe this audiobook was initially intended to be. I think that, after the hardback was published, someone thought it might work to release the interviews that went into the making of the hardback. All well and good, except that those interviews were recorded only for content, not for audio quality, and it shows. So I don't think anyone did a sloppy job of putting together an audiobook. Instead, I think someone tried to push a square peg of recorded interviews through the round hole of retail. Even the art on the CD box seems to be an afterthought. Unless you're prepared to listen to two CDs of muffled, echoing, low-volume, distant monologues, don't buy the audiobook of "Pythons" - instead, indulge yourself in the hardback. Not only will you "hear" the voices of the Pythons better in your own head, but you'll also get a lot of wonderful photos. 3

Interesting but VERY long

It's a bad sign when a book about my favorite comedy act (apart from the three stooges) doesn't keep me coming back. I found myself reading it is spurts and jumping around quite a bit. What I did read was interesting but not enough to keep me going. (The story behind the topless scene in "The dull life of a city stockbroker" was particularly funny). Of course as a Coffee table book it is awesome and full of pictures both in front of and behind the scenes. I would have liked at least a few passages by Carol Cleveland as I've always considered her part of the group. The fact that she grew from just "a bit of totty" to somebody who played real parts is would be a good story on its own. I think the cult status of the Pythons is a very American thing and it sometimes takes them aback. They are some of the funniest people who did some of the best comedy writing that ever lived and many modern comedians owe them a lot, however it is the fact that their humor is so educated (who else could do "the fish slapping dance and Coal miners arguing about the Treaty of Utrecht?) that raises it above. Too bad it couldn't raise up this book higher. 0060758643 0413760103 0679726470 0380804794 0413740900 0312311451_us 1149507414000 us unread

0753817977 The Pythons' Autobiography by the Pythons Book Terry Gilliam Graham Chapman John Cleese Eric Idle Michael Palin Terry Jones Bob McCabe 18 August, 2005 Phoenix Press http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0753817977.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0753817977.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0753817977.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg 3770553 Humour Paperback 0753817977 This item is currently not available. 4.5 3 5

And now for something completely not funny, yet indispensible.

...but that's not a bad thing (explanation below). I got this book for Christmas and was concerned that because of it's size I would probably end up just thumbing through and reading select parts. Not the case. I started reading it and couldn't stop. It covers the group and individuals from their pre-Python lives through discussions of working together again after The Live at Aspen event - though I won't tell you what conclusion they came to. In between is chock full of every detail about their influences, TV show, the movies, the stage shows and more. And because each member contributes (hence...autobiography) you get a great insider's perspective on the dynamics of the group. You learn first hand who doesn't like who, what they enjoyed and how, at times, they really struggled, and a bunch more behind the scenes insights into their personalities. I found the book to be fascinating. It is formatted such that each event is discussed by multiple members of the troop. So you get a 360 degree view of their writing sessions, their fights, their good times, their movie productions, their business and artistic relationships. The only downside (and here is why I titled this as such) is that it was rarely funny. That is by no means a fault, but could come as a surprise (as it did me) to the reader who expects it to be silly and funny like their performances. As a result this book is probably only going to be of interest to a true Python fan. And a true Python fan will find it indispensible. 5

Wonderful book

The Pythons were like the British Marx Brothers, Anti-authority, subversive, surreal, and very very funny. Particularly interesting are the Python's accounts of their childhood and pre-fame days. It seems "A Careful Reader" wasn't so careful after all. The picture of Dudley Moore (and it is most assuredly him) is on page 68 NOT 88. Here's a clue for ACR...he's about 30 years younger than he was when he appeared in the movie "10." Thank you and good night! 3

A few points about this Monty Python book

On page 88 it says that one of the four men in the photo is Dudley Moore. The fellow in the picture doesn't look at all like Dudley Moore. Furthermore, it says, on another page, that Ian MacNaughton is beseeching Terry Jones. But the man MacNaughton is begging seems to actually be Michael Palin. On a different note, in his autobiography part of the book Eric Idle seems too proud of his anti-authority stances. The 60's are very long gone now. Idle should grow up and not be so flaunting of his anti-societial ways. Being part of society is back in fashion. 0060758643 B0007OY2TE 0740748475 0753817977_us 1149507414000 us unread

1884777740 The Quick Python Book Book Daryl D. Harms Kenneth McDonald December, 1999 Manning Publications http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1884777740.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1884777740.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1884777740.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $39.95 $25.17 $12.99 $19.95 242689 76U5UJD7KJBB 22OCQHXOF37ZS 108YRTZMH9PCY Computer Books: Languages Computer Programming Languages Computers Computers - Languages / Programming Programming Languages - General Programming Languages - Python Python (Computer language) Python (Computer program langu Python (Computer program language) Computers/Programming Paperback 1 1884777740 Usually ships in 4 to 6 weeks 4.5 13 5

Excellent intro, AND a good read

This is, I think, the best quick introduction to Python that you can get. I have nothing to add to the other reviews, except to emphasize that it is very readable. Many introductory books are hard to get through, simply because they are so dry and boring. This book, on the other hand, is very readable, and actually makes the process of reading about the language enjoyable.If you are getting started with Python, I recommend this book, and also O'Reilly's "Python in a Nutshell". With those two books, you should have everything you need to get started. 5

Excelent introductory book

A book to get you up to speed in programming Python, plenty of examples and beautifully done, well crafted, easy to read, fast to get the information without many rereadings, great design and the most important, it does a superb job.Probably the best introductory book to a subject i have. 5

Best Language Book Since Kernighan & Ritchie!

Excuse my enthusiasm, but this is one of the best software books I've ever read and I've been programming professionally for 16 years. I wanted to learn Python as a replacement for Perl so I bought all the O'Reilly books, which were OK but too chatty and disorganized for my taste. I picked up Quick Python and found myself reading it like a bestseller and I still reread it. I was amazed at its consistent clarity, depth and friendliness with lots of tight examples in a visually pleasing format. The authors don't just cover the material, they also let you in on the subtleties and gotchas that go unmentioned in a reference like Beazley's Python Essential Reference (which I also own but for me Quick Python works better most of the time).Furthermore in order to explain Python well, the authors provide astute explanations of general programming topics such as exception handling, regular expressions, and the pros and cons of the current crop of popular programming languages. They also bring in experts, even Guido Van Rossum (the creator of Python), to write chapters on more advanced topics like JPython and Zope.My only caveat is that this is not the best place for beginners to start--Lutz & Ascher's Learning Python would be better--but it is a good book for beginners to own and dip into as they develop.Other reviewers have mentioned that Quick Python's coverage of Tkinter (the main Python GUI package) is thin and that's true, though somewhat understandable since Tkinter is quite a beast and whole books have been written that don't cover Tkinter or Tk all that well. I would dearly love to see Harms & McDonald bring their accessible, thorough-going approach to Tkinter and its extension, Python Megawidgets. 0596001886 0596007973 1590593715 0596002815 0321112547 1884777740_us 1149507501000 us unread

0563394811 The Worst of "Monty Python's Flying Circus" Book 07 March, 1994 BBC Consumer Publishing http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0563394811.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0563394811.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0563394811.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg 3457197 Humour Audio Cassette 0563394811 This item is currently not available. 0563394811_us 1149507586000 us unread

B0006W6BKA The yak, the python, the frog Book Hilaire Belloc 01 January, 1975 Parents' Magazine Press http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0006W6BKA.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0006W6BKA.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0006W6BKA.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $10.00 $12.50 Animals Juvenile literature Unknown Binding B0006W6BKA This item is currently not available. B0006W6BKA_us 1149507595000 us unread

0596100329 Twisted Network Programming Essentials Book Abe Fettig 20 October, 2005 O'Reilly Media, Inc. http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0596100329.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0596100329.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0596100329.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $29.95 $18.87 $17.61 $17.62 67261 Computer Bks - Communications / Networking Computer Books: General Computer Network Management Computer Programming Computers Computers - Languages / Programming Networking - General Networking - Network Protocols Programming - Software Development Computers / Networking / Network Protocols Python networking, Twisted, network programming, Paperback 1 0596100329 Usually ships in 24 hours 4.0 7 5

THIS BOOK IS TWISTED!!!!

Are you a developer who wants to start building applications using twisted? If you are, then this book is for you! Author Abe Fettig, has done an outstanding job of writing a book that contains lots of examples of working code, with thorough notes and explanations of how you can use Twisted to do useful things. Fettig, begins by covering downloading and installing Twisted, and some additional libraries, on the operating system of your choice. Then, the author shows you how you can use Twisted to make TCP connections to servers, and how to write a server that accepts TCP connections from clients. He continues by showing you how to use Twisted to work with the Web. Next, the author shows you how you can design a Twisted web application for programmatic accessing using the REST architectural style. Then he discusses the Twisted authentication framework, which provides an extremely flexible approach to authenticating users against different backends. He also demonstrates Twisted's powerful support for mail clients and servers. Then, he discusses Usenet clients and servers using the NNTP protocol. The author continues by covering Twisted's support for SSH. Finally, the author shows you how to use the tools Twisted provides for running and managing applications, which give you the ability to run daemon processes, use setuid and chroot to limit permissions, and write log files. The goal of this most excellent book is to focus on practical examples of how to use Twisted to perform some of the most common tasks that face developers building network applications. More importantly, this book will help you to understand the key concepts and design patterns used in Twisted applications. 5

Provides insights on the open source network application framework written in Python

Abe Fettig's Twisted: Network Programming Essentials provides insights on the open source network application framework written in Python. Twisted offers Python programmers a powerful flexible option, producing programs which won't lock up and which are event driven by network events. Its stability and reliability lends to a program which is versatile, very easy for programmers to manipulate, and which can be used to write a web server, enable applications via email, and more. Review the program's strengths with this bible of advice in hand. 4

Valuable to guide study of Twisted

As the previous reviewers stated, there are errors and not deep explaination. The value of the books is in the examples and as an outline to a course of study. Without Dive into Python by Mark Pilgram I would not have a chance with the Twisted book. Dive into Python is probably the second Python book for most people. The asynchronous program technique of "Deferred"s explaination in the book and on the web site did help a little but left me unsure about details. Fortunately, the twisted source code is understandable. Essentially, a list of nested tuples is being managed. There are some pretty compact code, such as, for deferred chain, etc. so this route will require some confidence with Python. My ubuntu Linux system has great Python support (this is not generally known - my discovery was by accident). Unbuntu 5.10 comes with Python 2.4.2 already installed. All the Pthon libraries needed for this book are ready for easy installation with the Synaptic package manager. SPE (Stanni's Python Editor) is available on Ubuntu. It works out well for browsing the Twisted source code. The Python code is syntax colored, the classes and methods show up in the side bar for easy navigation, and there is a recusive find in files to track down references. It did do stange things once and a while -I will stick to VIM for editing my own programs. Fedora, Mac OS X, and Windows probably require a little more work. It seems to me the real Pythonistas go to the source and fussy documenation is for wimps. However, relative newbies like me can sure appreciate all the help they can get. This is a valuable book. 0596007973 1590593715 1932394621 097669400X 1590593561 0596100329_us 1149507414000 us unread

0132216353 Understanding AJAX : Using JavaScript to Create Rich Internet Applications Book Joshua Eichorn 06 October, 2006 Prentice Hall PTR http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0132216353.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0132216353.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0132216353.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $39.99 $25.19 1156885 Computer Books: Languages Computers Computers - Languages / Programming Programming Languages - CGI, Javascript, Perl, VBScript Computers / Programming Languages / CGI, JavaScript, Perl, VBScript Paperback 1 0132216353 Not yet released. 0132216353_us 1149507375000 us read

0130473766 Unified Software Engineering Using Java Book Georges G. Merx Ronald J. Norman 12 June, 2006 Prentice Hall http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0130473766.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0130473766.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0130473766.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $106.67 $106.67 3401180 Computer Bks - Languages / Programming Computer Books: Languages Computers Computers - Languages / Programming Java (Computer program language) Object-Oriented Programming Object-oriented methods (Computer science) Programming - Object Oriented Programming Programming - Software Development Programming Languages - Java Software engineering Computers / Programming Languages / Java Paperback 1 0130473766 Not yet released. 0130473766_us 1149507666000 us unread

0152010289 Verdi Book Janell Cannon 01 April, 1997 Harcourt Children's Books http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0152010289.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0152010289.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0152010289.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $16.00 $10.40 $1.29 $2.99 $4.99 15720 U7WSUTJRHIVB 15C5XU78MAGJV 2WYMU1JCW0RYQ Children's 4-8 - Picturebooks Children: Grades 2-3 Fiction Juvenile Fiction Old age Pythons Snakes Social Issues - Adolescence Juvenile Fiction / Social Situations / Adolescence Hardcover 1 0152010289 Usually ships in 24 hours Verdi is a proud python, flourishing in the flower of his youth. He loves to swiftly slither around the forest, brandishing his bright yellow skin, and can't fathom why anyone would want to be sleepy and green like the adult snakes he knows. Verdi insists, as so many youngsters do, "I will never be lazy, boring or green!" Despite his resolve to stay young, one day he notices a patch of green spreading down the length of his body. Verdi does everything he can think of to erase this first sign of the inevitable tide of age. But in his frenzy of youthful, Icarus-like bravado, he nearly kills himself. Finally, Verdi learns that even though he can't stop the aging process, green skin won't keep him from being a fun-loving, young-at-heart, figure-eight-forming snake. Janell Cannon's illustrations are exquisite. As in her award-winning Stellaluna, not only are the animal drawings painstakingly accurate, they are also awash with movement and beauty. The countless shades of greeny-yellow and yellowy-green have the effect of a cool eye compress for the reader--calming, inviting, and enticing readers to reach into the lush environment of the pages. Verdi's lesson is never didactic, always compelling, and pleasantly surprising. (Ages 4 and older) 5.0 37 5

verdi

I like this book because the color of the snake eyes.This is a fun book for all ages to read and enjoy. 5

verdi

I like this book because the color of the snake is pretty. Then I like because the color of the eyes. 5

Old Kids and Young Kids

My 56-year-old father and his buddies were talking about how they'd like to learn to do wheelies on their motorcycles like the young kids. As he was telling me about the conversation, all I could think about was Verdi! ... My kids (7 & 11) love the book! Keep it green! 0152802177 0152017909 0152046682 0152021949 0152017917 0152010289_us 1149507535000 us unread

0394851099 Walt Disney Productions presents Mowgli and Kaa the python (Disney's wonderful world of reading) Book 1981 Random House http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0394851099.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0394851099.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0394851099.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $0.01 $10.00 $6.99 78473 Unknown Binding 0394851099 This item is currently not available. 0394851099_us 1149507595000 us unread

159749061X Web Application Security : A Guide for Developers and Penetration Testers Book Matt Fisher 01 July, 2006 Syngress http://images.amazon.com/images/P/159749061X.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/159749061X.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/159749061X.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $49.95 $31.47 580879 Computer - Internet Computer Bks - General Information Computer Books: General Computers Internet - Application Development Internet - Security Programming - Software Development Security - General Computers / Security Web application security, webappsec, web site security, secure software, software assurance, SQL injection, cross-site scripting, vulnerability, 0-day, VisualBasic, Perl, Python, Java, JavaScript, information security, secure code, application C&A, buffer overflow, exploit, C, C++. C# Paperback 1 159749061X Not yet released. 0321369440 1597490741 1597490210 159749030X 0321356705 159749061X_us 1149507414000 us unread

3540223592 Web Component Development with Zope 3 Book Philipp von Weitershausen 19 April, 2005 Springer http://images.amazon.com/images/P/3540223592.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/3540223592.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/3540223592.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $59.95 $49.88 $47.99 $49.44 79753 Computer - Internet Computer Bks - Internet Computer Books: Languages Computers Internet - Web Site Design Programming - General Components Computers / Operating Systems / General Python Software Development Web Web application Zope Hardcover 1 3540223592 Usually ships in 5 to 7 weeks 4.5 4 4

Well written and connected

I bought this book as a Zope Newbie. I am past 7 chapters at this point and have been able to understand all the concepts presented and also conjured up a small example of my own, to which I am incrementally adding to. The book boasts of the following: - Well presented chapters with incremental addition of newer concepts. - Good coverage of Beginner, Intermediate as well as Advanced concepts. - An application that has been developed incrementally throughout the book, chapter by chapter with downloadable source code. - Concisely written while being an easy as well as entertaining read. - The author actually responded to me when I posted a question on the Zope Users Mailing List (see zope.org). Zope is paradigm change from existing app-server technologies and the author does a good job of helping the reader absorb this. My only beef with the book was that the application source code had some problems with the Zope 3.2 version but this really isn't that big of a deal since one can either simply run it on a previous version of Zope or else, if feeling adventurous, fix the problem. Definitely Recommended. -Sid. 4

strong localisation discussion

Perhaps the best known Zope application is Plone, for content management. Zope also has a thriving community centred around Zope.org. So perhaps you are interested in learning to program Zope? This book is one of the most comprehensive descriptions of Zope, version 3. The author is German, and perhaps not being a native English speaker helps the content of this book. Example codes are given, not just for English speakers. Plus, there is a strong section on internationalisation or localisation. He explains how to do this, with practical cases like showing the same numbers in different ways. Continental Europe uses a comma for the decimal point and a dot for the thousands separator. Simple enough to handle. But also enough to hopefully make you aware of how to use Zope to customise for your expected audiences. 5

Perfection in technical writing

This book is at once thorough, brief, and concise. This is by far the best technical books i've read on any subject. I have been interested in Zope for almost a year now, but even as a seasoned programmer I was intimidated by its labrythian complexity. I struggled for weeks reading the free Zope material and learning almost nothing. This book presents the material in an accessable manner while shying away from the horrible puns and awful jokes present in so many technical books. This book would be a bargin at twice its price. Even the books physical construction is outstanding -- it is a hard back with a solid binding, and the cover appears to be some sort of tyvek which is an industrial material you may recognize as the nearly indestructable plastic the US Postal Service uses in some of its mailers. For the older among us, you would recall the material being used as 5.25" floppy sleeves. A last note, another reviewer mentions having trouble getting the book in the US, I recieved it in about a week with the standard free shipping. 0672326175 1590593294 1904811027 0672326876 0596007973 3540223592_us 1149507414000 us unread

0596005431 Web Database Applications with PHP & MySQL, 2nd Edition Book Hugh E. Williams David Lane 16 May, 2004 O'Reilly Media, Inc. http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0596005431.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0596005431.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0596005431.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $44.95 $28.32 $18.95 $44.95 $23.95 4080 3NYOY87NJLJXU 20BJTYAK6I51R 10JU1OGXGOFPE Computer - Internet Computer Books: General Computers Design Internet - Application Development Internet - Web Site Design MySQL (Electronic resource) PHP (Computer language) PHP (Computer program language PHP (Computer program language) Programming Languages - General Programming Languages - SQL Sql (Programming Language) Web sites Computers / Database Management / General Database software World Wide Web (WWW) Paperback 1 0596005431 Usually ships in 24 hours PHP and MySQL go hand in hand; the former has been carefully adapted, through the efforts of the open-source community, to the latter. For situations that require dynamic content but don't merit the complexity and development time of Java or .NET enterprise applications, the PHP language and the MySQL database server fit the bill perfectly. That's the point Hugh Williams and David Lane make in Web Database Applications with PHP & MySQL, which combines language tutorials with application design advice to yield a comprehensive picture of its subjects at a reasonable price. Williams and Lane--both Australian academics who use an online wine store in many of their examples--deserve tremendous kudos for their way of presenting recommended coding strategies. Though the code listings themselves aren't remarkably well commented, the authors do a commendable job of explaining in prose what the code is up to.Case in point: The ever-essential task of using PHP to open a connection to a MySQL database, submit a query to that database, receive a response, and format the returned rows, if any. The book addresses this problem with a straight code listing, followed by text that explains what's happening in five numbered steps. Similar care goes to the other popular applications of the PHP/MySQL duo: session management, shopping carts, and authentication of users. --David Wall Topics covered: How to use the PHP server-side scripting language and the MySQL database engine to underlie dynamic Web sites (those that rely on database queries) and full-on Web applications, such as those that require session management and maintenance of user rosters. Tutorials in both subjects begin with the basics and proceed through moderately complicated stuff, though there's no absolutely comprehensive reference here. 4.5 48 5

The best starting point to php and mysql

I bought this book with the hope I could learn just enought to get me started with web application development. I only had little programming experience at that time, I I didn't even have any experience with databases. Well. This book was the perfect introduction to web applications. From security to authentication, from php basics to multi-table join sql queries, this book got me into this world, and I appreciate it so much because I am working now in web development, thanks to what I learned from here. Altough this book is not for the absolute beginner, it teaches you just what you need to know to get you started, and even more. It lacks some subjects, like caching, or some advanced php 5 language constructs. Its focus is in real world development, without too much emphasis in application design or php/mysql internals. It teaches you just what you really need to know, and it teaches you that extremely well. You will learn php, from its basic syntax and usage, to object oriented programming basics. Then the book takes you to mysql, with a great introduction to sql, and how to use mysql from php. The following chapters deal with typical database concepts you must grasp, like concurrency issues and even performance tunning. It doesn't get too deep in php as a language, rather it focuses on php and mysql interaction, with an eye towards constructing a real world web application (which finally gets its parts joined in the final chapter). Things I dislike are its use of templating systems over many chapters. That was not a subject I was interested in. Althought a serious php developer can't simply ignore this topic, it is not crucial in understanding the fundamentals, and it, in turn, adds a source of difficulty to the examples from chapter 7 on. Other thing I didn't like was the development of a complete application that I didn't have time to study, altough fortunately I managed to ignore it as much as I can, without losing too much. In summary, I love this book, it is not perfect, but it's just what I needed and I give it 5 stars because it is a really well written and focused book. 5

Excellent Introduction Book & Reference

This book is an excellent introduction to PHP, MySQL, and the interaction of the two. It has a few chapters introducing PHP, then a few introducing MySQL, and then walks through the steps necessary to build a functioning dynamic website. They also include an elaborate and detailed case study of a Winestore application the author's developed. Whenever somebody tells me they are interested in PHP and web programming, this is the book I tell them to get. Many friends have borrowed my copy since I got it. 5

Great Book

I purchased this book along with Programming PHP [Lerdorf and Tatroe], and i have no regrets, this book covers evey aspect of application web development, a very simple way, and references a lot of resources to get deeper knowledge, it encourages and motivates you to choose PHP as a WEB Application Language. This book is a must !!! 1565926102 1565926811 0596005601 0672326728 0596001452 0596005431_us 1149507423000 us unread

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Learning Curve - Too Unfocused

Chapters 1-6 did not contain enough examples to get into thr mindset of the book. In particular, I would have like information better leading into the heart of the book in Chapter 8 and beyond. Chapter 7, on the other hand, is an excellent introduction to the world of web programming. Then, in Chapter 8 and beyond, not enough of a coding and understanding base has been built to follow the design considerations of the tools into the Slither and other tools. In general, the information freely available on the Net for Python makes it look like the perfect tool for open source Web programming. However, the relative lack of intermediate documentation (ex. object-oeiented programming at more than a basic level) means that most actual Web sites are built in PHP, Java, or other languages not nearly as elegant. This book continues that tradition by including tools that aren't sufficiently explained to the point that I know either to: (a) use the tool, and don't reinvent the wheel; (b) these tools work, but you need to add to them for a robust application; or (c) nobody's done that (well) yet, so get going! Still, Chapter 7 alone saved me weeks in development. My biggest complaint is that I was anticipating learning the details of web-based MySQL database programming in Python. There's lots of infomation on MySQL programming - in MySQL. Also, as I do not own the web server - I pay a few dollars a month for that - I (a) can't configure the web server; (b) don't need to configure the web server; (c) need techniques that will work, having access to MySQL and Python, without having root access to the web server. 5

Thank you to our readers & web site

Hello, Everyone. First, we thank all of you for the generally positive comments about our book. We worked hard to bring you a book of high quality and are still alive. I wish to point out that the nature of this project was to provide a solid framework that, initially, was aimed at helping our readers to learn the issues involved in developing serious web applications. Think of Slither as a web framework aimed at being understood pedagogically, similar to what Minix aimed to do for teaching/learning operating systems. That said, a number of things have changed since we wrote the book. All of our day jobs became more demanding, similar to what's going on in much of the US workforce. We are committed to evolving Slither (the framework described in our book) and look forward to involving others in the project via our new home on SourceForge. A new release is already in the planning stages, which we hope will make Slither one of the best web programming frameworks ever--especially for Python programmers! For those who wish to grab the latest code, please visit the Slither project at SourceForge. We do not post URLs due to Amazon's guidelines. 5

Best kept secret in web programming

Talk about a sleeper! This book may be one of the best kept secrets in the world of Web programming books. It could be described as Web programming with Python and Open Source tools. In the hands of most authors, this much breadth would produce a multi-volume set of books complete with material that could readily be found elsewhere. The reader is fortunate that it was written and edited by educators who know how to present the pertinent and relevant details of the OS, the Shell, the Python language, Apache, SQL. Lesser books give you the world but require the reader to determine what is relevant and how to use the features described. The manuscript is original and efficient; definitely not a regurgitation of material available on the Web. The advanced sections pertaining to the development of an application server are rich with good programming methodologies. However, some chapters may be exceedingly routine for intermediate and/or advanced server-side programmers. The book could be described as a "LAMP" developer guide for novices (where the P stands for Python not Perl). A previous reviewer cited some typos. In an effort to keep that comment in perspective, I believe the number of errors for this amount of breadth + depth is very low. 0735710902 0596007973 1590593715 0596002815 0596001886 0130410659_us 1149507458000 us unread

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replaces 6 books [one for each language]

How the Web has grown! In doing so, and aiding its growth, has been the use and development of several languages. Naturally, Schafer starts with the language that birthed the Web - HTML. Actually this needs its dual ("twin") on a server, http. But Schafer discusses http in a later chapter devoted to CGI. Hopefully, you should be able to appreciate that HTML is simple. In fact, of all that the book discusses, HTML is the simplest language. Several initial chapters walk you through HTML. It must be stressed that mastery of HTML is needed to make sense of the rest of the book. The later languages either extend the scope of an HTML file, or they generate the file, roughly speaking. Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) lets you easily factor out common definitions that are used across multiple web pages, where you can imagine that each web page corresponds to a file storing it. Schafer explains how to use CSS to simplify management of a set of HTML files. A centralised way to set common fonts and the like. More robust. But HTML is a declarative language. Good, because laymen can more easily understand and write such languages. It's easier to say what should be done, than how to do it. But for the times when you need more expressive power on the browser, Schafer offers JavaScript. A procedural language that actually has nothing to do with Java. [The coincidence in names was a marketing ploy.] Schafer does not ignore the server. CGI is given, as the first generation attempt at server side code. Its limitations spawned the use of Perl, PHP and Python for easier parsing of user input and generation of new dynamic pages. Each of these languages (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Perl, PHP and Python) is often the subject of its own book. No surprise then that Schafer explaining all 6 gave us a book of this length! 0764579088 1932394613 0321346939 0321305256 0471777781 0764588206_us 1149507414000 us unread

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0470079274 Wiley Plus/Web CT Stand-alone to accompany Objects, Abstraction, Data Structures and Design: Using Java, Version 5.0 (Wiley Plus Products) Book Elliot B. Koffman Paul A. T. Wolfgang 28 July, 2006 John Wiley & Sons http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0470079274.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0470079274.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0470079274.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $49.95 $49.95 Computer Books: Languages Computers Computers - General Information Programming Languages - Java Computers / Programming Languages / Java Paperback 1 0470079274 Not yet released. 0470079274_us 1149507619000 us unread

0470079584 Wiley Plus/Web CT Stand-alone to accompany Operating Systems Concepts with Java (Wiley Plus Products) Book Abraham Silberschatz Peter Baer Galvin Greg Gagne 28 July, 2006 John Wiley & Sons http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0470079584.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0470079584.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0470079584.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $57.95 $57.95 Computer Books: Operating Systems Computers Computers - Operating Systems Operating Systems - General Computers / Operating Systems / General Paperback 1 0470079584 Not yet released. 0470079584_us 1149507619000 us unread

1932394621 wxPython in Action Book Noel Rappin Robin Dunn 23 March, 2006 Manning Publications http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1932394621.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1932394621.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1932394621.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $49.95 $31.47 $31.46 $49.95 $31.46 44054 Computer Bks - Languages / Programming Computer Books: Languages Computer Graphics Computer Graphics - General Computers Computers - Languages / Programming Programming Languages - General Programming Languages - Java Programming Languages - Python Python (Computer program language) User Interfaces Computers / General Paperback 1 1932394621 Usually ships in 24 hours 5.0 3 5

VERY VERY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!

If you are familiar with the Python programming language, this book is for you. Authors Noel Rappin and Robin Dunn, have done an outstanding job of writing a book that is more of a useful resource than the existing online documentation. Rappin and Dunn, begin by introducing wxPython and give some background on the technologies used to create wxPython. Then, they show you how to start a wxPython program, and how to manage its lifecycle. The authors continue by discussing how events are handled, and how you can use them as hooks to drive your functionality. Next, they show you how to make wxPython easier to handle with PyCrust. Then, the authors discuss best practices in three areas that are often difficult for GUI programmers. The authors continue by showing you how to work with the basic building blocks. Next, they cover the API for the basic widget set, including text fields, buttons, list boxes, and the like. Then, the authors cover how frames work, what kind of frames there are, and how to manage widgets within a frame. They also cover how modal dialog boxes work, as well as the standard predefined wxPython dialogs. The authors continue by showing you how to add menus to the menu bar, and menu items to a menu. Next, they show you how to use widgets with sizers, and what kind of layout is best suited to each. They also show you how to manipulate basic graphical images. The authors continue by showing you how to build list controls and managing items. Then, they show you how to coordinate the grid control. Next, they show you how to climb the tree control. Next, they show you how to incorporate HTML into your application. They also explore how all print, print data, and print preview objects work together. Finally, they cover some important features that are not quite long enough to justify a chapter on their own, including cut and paste, drag and drop, and multithreading. How you use this most excellent book will depend on your wxPython knowledge. The authors designed the book to be useful for both experts and novices, but they expect that different parts of the book will have more or less resonance for users at different levels. 5

Well-written, complete, excellent resource

The documentation for wxPython being lacking, I figured I'd buy this book to fill in the gaps. Not ony did this book document things that are obscure or inexistant in the current docs, but it is presented in an easily digestable fashion that makes it really easy to get up and write your own program. The book is split into three main parts, introduction to wxPython, essential wxPython, and advanced wxPython. The intro discusses the origins of wxPython, how to set up an application, add frames (windows), set up events, and work with common dialogs. The second part goes into detail regarding each of the standard widgets. There's a good thirty pages on using sizers, info that I found invaluable. The last part discusses advanced wxPython subjects, including using grids and trees, using the printing framework, threading, and drag and drop. The format is quite pleasing. For the sections on the various widgets, there is usually a short intro, a few code examples, a table that shows the main API methods for the widget which is more useful than the online docs, and quite a few screenshots throughout. The code itself is usually short, to the point, and at most a page long, so it doesn't try to show 10 things at the same time and it's easy to copy-paste (if you have the ebook version, also available) into your own programs. As the previous reader said, it's easy to see that this was written by one of the authors of wxPython. Despite being written by an expert, it didn't skim over some of the seemingly obvious but confusing for a beginner things in the package. For example, the book will tell you how to redirect "print" output to the console instead of a separate window (answer: use App(false) when instantiating your app), what's the difference between a Frame (window) and a Panel anyway (answer: panel allows tabbing), why you don't need a panel when using a dialog (answer: tabbing is already built in), why there's no 'pack' or 'appendToDisplayList' anywhere (answer: the first argument in a widget gives the parent and the framework automatically adds it to the display list), and a whole bunch of other little things. There was one thing I thought was missing however, and that is a chapter on maintaining portability across platforms (especially with regards to sizing). Apart from that, the book is flawless, highly recommended! 5

THE Book on the Subject

Robin Dunn, one of the authors of this book is also one of the developers of the wxPython system. He is nothing else if not religiously converted to wxPython. And it is a delight to read a book where the author is so passionately dedicated to the subject. Many books are written by someone who has written 20+ titles on everything from how to use Excel to programming in the latest Microsoft language. When you read one by the developer you know you are not only getting the right scoop, but also you are getting an understanding of why/how the whole thing was developed and some commentary on why this particular package is the greatest thing since sliced bread. This book is written for the programmer interested in moving to wxPython. It assumes that you have a working knowledge of the Python language and want to move up to the additional features in the wxWidget toolkit. It starts with a friendly tutorial to get your first couple of programs running, then it converts to an extensive reference for the large widget library. This is THE book on wxPython. 0131473816 0596007973 0596100329 1590593715 159059519X 1932394621_us 1149507414000 us unread

0782140211 XML Processing with Perl, Python, and PHP Book Martin C. Brown 21 November, 2001 Sybex Inc http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0782140211.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0782140211.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0782140211.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $49.99 $3.22 $3.35 388829 Computer Bks - Languages / Programming Computer Books: Languages Computer Networks Computer Programming Languages Computers Computers - Languages / Programming PHP (Computer program language Perl (Computer program languag Perl (Computer program language) Programming - Object Oriented Programming Programming Languages - CGI, Javascript, Perl, VBScript Programming Languages - HTML Programming Languages - XML Python (Computer program langu Python (Computer program language) XML (Document markup language) XML Paperback 1 0782140211 This item is currently not available. Aimed at experienced programmers, Processing with Perl, Python, and PHP is a guide to processing XML with popular scripting languages. The author is a strong advocate of script, as opposed to C++ or Java, on the grounds of speed of development, ease of use, and cross-platform support. With explanations and examples, he shows how to parse XML using Perl, Python, or PHP and offers brief notes on other scripting languages. To make sense of the book, readers need to be already familiar with the script language of their choice, and to a lesser extent with XML itself. The opening chapters offer a brief introduction to XML and DTD (Document Type Definition) files and explain the basic concepts of parsing XML using event-driven or tree-based APIs. Next comes a long section on XML and Perl, covering the XML::Parser module, Perl and Unicode, generating and converting XML, and using SOAP or XML-RPC. A parallel section shows how the same things can be achieved with XML and Python, and there's a further chapter on Zope, the Python application server. PHP has a shorter section, focusing on XML parsing, working with RSS (Rich Site Summary) XML documents, and XML-RPC. The last part of the book offers a chapter each on four other scripting languages: REBOL, Ruby, Tcl, and AppleScript. The snag with this book is that few developers work with all these languages, and covering so many limits the detail on any one. Even so, it is interesting to compare the differences between the various approaches, particularly between Perl and Python, which are the author's main area of expertise. There are also helpful insights on how to convert XML to and from database formats. --Tim Anderson, Amazon.co.uk 3.5 2 2

Okay book, but are you using all these languages?

This book is okay, but is your development team really using all these languages? If you need to learn XML with a certain technology, get Professional PHP4 XML or Manning's new Java and XML book and many others. Not only do these books cover the same material as this one, they cover some really advanced topics such as architecture and design issues as well as giving you heads up on the latest versions such as php 4.3.0. This book also doesn't nearly tell you about all the potential problems that you can have with working with PHP where Professional PHP4 XML will answer just about every question you ever had plus everything else you didn't think of. 5

A must have book

XML is not so difficult, but when coping with Perl or PHP, you need something to tell you exactly HOW to do that. Add to this Python, a very well written book, and you get Martin C. Brown's book. I think that if you're really serious into programming XML with Python and Perl, you absolutely must have this book. 0735712891 0735712271 0596001282 1565926994 0596007973 0782140211_us 1149507458000 us unread

0130211192 XML Processing with Python (with CD-ROM) Book Sean McGrath 15 June, 2000 Prentice Hall PTR http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0130211192.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0130211192.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0130211192.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $44.99 $1.63 $1.64 587217 Computer Bks - Languages / Programming Computer Books: General Computer Networks Computer Programming Languages Computers Computers - Languages / Programming Internet - General Programming - Object Oriented Programming Programming Languages - General Programming Languages - HTML Programming Languages - XML Python (Computer program langu Python (Computer program language) XML (Document markup language) CD-ROM 1 0130211192 This item is currently not available. 076092006718 3.0 11 2

What's this about?

I haven't clue what this book is about and how it relates to real life problem solving. I use SAX2 and DOM parsers daily and they are an integral part of my software projects. I fond this book to be a total waste of time and money and I would not, could not recommend it. The O'Reilly Book on the other hand it a gem 1

Too basic, too much irrelevant material

There are some useful nuggets in this book, but there is also a lot of material that doesn't directly relate to processing XML. The author spends an inordinate amount of space discussing things like AWK, filename globbing on Windows, installing software, and other irrelevant items. The software tools used as examples in the book were written for earlier versions of Python and the Python XML libraries; they do not work with the current releases of Python and PyXML, and no updates are available on the author's web site. 2

expensive and still loaded with typos and other errors

This book proves that a good publisher makes a difference, and that prentice hall does not qualify. I've never seen a computer book that contains so many errors. Combined with the hideous layout of the goldfarb series, this should be enough to keep you far away from it. BTW: i've added a second star, because valuable stuff is hidden in it; you just have to work too hard to get there.If you're new to python, buy learning python and programming python instead. if you want to apply xml with python, use the web to learn more. Only buy this book if it's *deeply* discounted, or if you're looking for job as a book editor. Otherwise, you'll end up rewarding incompetent publishing. 0596001282 0596007973 0130211192_us 1149507501000 us unread

0596101007 Zero Configuration Networking: The Definitive Guide Book Stuart Cheshire Daniel Steinberg 13 December, 2005 O'Reilly Media, Inc. http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0596101007.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0596101007.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0596101007.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $39.95 $25.17 $10.91 $19.95 60735 Computer Bks - Communications / Networking Computer Books: General Computers Computers - Communications / Networking General Networking - General Networking - Intranets & Extranets Networking - Local Area Networks (LANs) Networking - Network Protocols Computers / Networking / General OS X, Apple, Rendevzous, Bonjour, Distributed Computing, Networking, java, Ruby, Python, Perl, linux, zeroconf Paperback 1 0596101007 Usually ships in 24 hours 5.0 1 5

How to integrate hardware and software with no configuration files in between - and no error messages

Stuart Cheshire and Daniel H. Steinberg's Zero Configuration Networking: The Definitive Guide tells how to integrate hardware and software with no configuration files in between - and no error messages. Zeroconf is a standard for building self-configuring applications, from LANs to printer files and file-sharing software: Zero Configuration Networking tells how to put it all together with easy implementation. Three 'Hacks' titles provide options for working with networks, images and programs. 0596002440 0974078514 0974514055 097669400X 1932394613 0596101007_us 1149507414000 us unread

0471222186 Zope Python Cookbook Book Richter 13 October, 2004 John Wiley & Sons Inc http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0471222186.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0471222186.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0471222186.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg $55.87 $35.20 1622847 Internet Paperback 0471222186 Usually ships in 4 to 6 weeks 0471222186_us 1149507423000 us unread