Thinking in Patterns: Download the First Version

RichMeraz writes "Bruce Eckel has posted his first incarnation of Thinking in Patterns with Python on his website. What a wonderful Christmas present." Make sure to check the list of mirrors before downloading. As Eckel says, "This should whet your appetite to read Design Patterns " (or reread it)... classic book, I figure it can't hurt to refresh my memory once a year, and holidays seem like a good time to think in the abstract...

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Eckel's announcment (on comp.lang.python)

[Lumpish Scholar]

Via Google:

http://groups.google.com/groups?as_umsgid=mailman. 1009338389.32160.python-list@python.org

Just under the wire, I've manage to post the first early alpha version (0.1) of "Thinking in Python."

Please note:

1) This is not an introductory book. I couldn't bring myself to write yet another introductory language tutorial, and there are already plenty of good ones out there. This is "Design Patterns in Python," so I can use any language features or advanced techniques that I want, without apology (hooray!).

2) This is an early translation of "Thinking in Patterns," so parts of it have not yet been translated. I've tried to mark those chapters, but please be patient.

The source code is in the download package. When you unzip everything (remember to use the -a flag with unzip if you're on Unix), the code will be put into subdirectories for each chapter.

In addition, this book debuts my new 'BackTalk' comment collection system that I built in Zope.

OpenOffice

[Da VinMan]

Just use it.

Re:Design Patterns are abstract?

[The Cat]

(spaghetti programming + OOP = ravioli programming).

LOL!!!!!!

+5 funny