Interactive Python Book

An online interactive edition of the book How to Think Like a Computer Scientist (by Elkner et. al) is being developed by Brad Miller and David Ranum. I think it is going to be a great online resource to learn python, specially for the beginners. Students can do homework right in the browser (yes, and that's why for this ebook you will require html5 supported modern browser). The site is developed using Google App Engine and you will need a gmail account to access the ebook. They used Python 3 instead of Python 2.x in the book, which is a good thing in my opinion. So you can check the book here: http://thinkcspy.appspot.com.

Comments

Sami Almuhammady said…
It is a great job, is really useful
August 31, 2011 at 12:11 PM
Unknown said…
This is very useful.Thanks for sharing.
February 1, 2012 at 11:50 PM
umarao said…
Thank you very much yaar.great job!
February 7, 2012 at 1:44 PM
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