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Aspiring programmer here. So, I've completed the following from that page and on the web: - Google's Python course (https://developers.google.com/edu/python/) - Learn Python the Hard Way (http://learnpythonthehardway.org/book) - ThinK Python: How to Think Like a Computer Scientist (http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkpython/thinkpython.pdf)

Also working on the O'Reilly Python book.

Three books later, I still don't really feel like an "expert" with Python. I mean, I know the syntax well enough, I know basic programming idioms, I just need something of intermediate complexity to work on, somewhere between "Learn Python From Scratch!" and the Python Standard Library. Coming from a C background, I don't need to be told what most of these concepts are, I just need to know how Python does them.

I also made the mistake of trying to learn several languages (e.g. Java, Javascript, and Python) simultaneously, and by poor choice or poor availability of free materials, nearly all of them ended up being along the lines of these "Learn X Language with no programming background!" The end result being if I have to hear someone tell me again what an "if" statement and a "for loop" are, my head is going to explode.

To reiterate, where does one look for an Intermediate level Python book?



This is a collection of real world python projects written in 500 lines or less. https://github.com/aosabook/500lines The goal was to be a resource for intermediate python developers to be able to look at real world applications. Hope this helps.


That's a great idea. I've recently started browsing through some of the top-voted questions and answers at http://codereview.stackexchange.com/ to see how coding / scripting can be improved.

Edit: After browsing through the list of projects, I found three which were both interesting / useful to me and (just about) within my abilities:

* Guido van Rossum’s web-site crawler

* Ned Batchelder’s template engine

* Malini Das’ simple Continuous Integration system


Great resource. Does anyone know about other collections of small projects (python, javascript, ...) similar to this one?


What do you want to do with Python?

My personal experience is that "learn language X" is more difficult and less productive than "learn to do Y with language X."

Figure out what you want to accomplish with the language and worry about the rest along the way.


Could you go a little bit more into detail what exactly you are looking for? As in, what don't you know right now that you expect to learn from the book?


Try to solve a real world problem using python. I'll give you more details/answers once I'm at my home.




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