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Posted by michael on from the because-thinking-perl-hurts-too-much dept.

An anonymous reader writes "In a neverending effort to spread the word about free quality online programming books, here is a Python programming book. 'How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: Learning With Python', by Allen B. Downey, Chris Meyers, and Jeffrey Elkner is a copylefted work available in multiple formats at Green Tea Press: HTML , PDF, LaTeX. Compliments of the online books what's new page."

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  1. Thinking Perl by vsprintf · · Score: 2, Funny

    from the because-thinking-perl-hurts-too-much dept.

    Thinking (and writing) Perl doesn't hurt at all. It's reading Perl that hurts. Write Once Read Never.

  2. Re:Perl? by jethro_troll · · Score: 2, Funny

    - Python is strongly dynamically typed

    ...causing much wear and tear on the keyboard