After reviewing a couple ebooks last week, I've been getting asked to write reviews for several other authors. I even got an offer to write Python book reviews for another website too! Crazy. Anyway, Frederic Lepied contacted me today to review his eBook, which is available on Amazon. He sent it to me as an […]
I bought Matt Harrison's book, Guide To: Learning Python Decorators this week to see if I could finally understand what the big deal was about decorators. I've decided to try reviewing this book using Doug Hellman's method of doing a Quick Review and then a more formal in depth review for those of you hardy […]
Last month around the time of PyCon USA 2012, Matt Harrison sent me a copy of his newest book, Guide to: Learning Iteration and Generators in Python. I've been wanting to learn more about generators anyway, so I thought this was pretty fortuitous. Sadly, it took me a month to get around to reading it. […]
This is an unorthodox review of Numpy 1.5 Beginner's Guide by Ivan Idris. I have to say two things right off before we get into the review: This book was given to me in ebook and physical form directly from Packt Publishing I actually don't think I have enough math to review this On that […]
This week, I discovered a new book on Python titled Treading on Python Vol. 1 by Matt Harrison. The book is only in draft form, so it's still pretty rough, but the author was kind enough to send me a free copy in epub and mobi formats. I read part of it using EPUBReader, an […]
Recently, I was linked to the Python Forum because one of my friends on the wxPython IRC channel said that Packt was trying to find reviewers for their new book, Numpy 1.5 Beginner's Guide by Ivan Idris. I doubt they're going to find many people on that website though. I've certainly never heard of it. […]