MDO2010 posted at 1:01PM Sun, 09 October 2016 - #4286170

Their books are on sale on Amazon all the time too and often have an additional Prime discount - I got a bunch of them several months ago for around $15 each. Just be careful because there are several editions of some of them with slight changes in the name but almost no actual text changes - if the description sounds like it might be the same thing as another one, it probably is, but it won't straight up say that.

Also, most of the "cookbook" ones seem to be good resources if you are just looking for a solution for something, but they rarely explain they "why" - they are very much of the "click this,", "enter 5," "click this" school, so they are not good learning tools for the beginner in my experience.

Thanks for the heads-up Mark. I'm familiar with PAKCT books, though I was looking more at their Python books yesterday, as I'd like to try my hand at it. I've been programming for years in several web related languages, but I'm looking for a beginner's book, and then eventually learn to create addons for some of my 3D software that utilizes Python scripting. The one organization where I learned my web related programming languages, however, doesn't offer it, so I'm thinking a good book might be useful. We shall see, but I will keep your comments in mind.

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