Download Murach Python Programming Michael Urban Joel Murach Mike Murach 9781890774974 Books

Product details Paperback 590 pages Publisher Mike Murach & Associates (December 13, 2016) Language English ISBN-10 1890774979

Murach Python Programming Michael Urban Joel Murach Mike Murach 9781890774974 Books Reviews

• This is by far the best PYTHON tutorial I have come across. I owe my DB2 skills to MURACH's DB2 book , and now I will owe my PYTHON to this book. Tried UDEMY, UDACITY, some other video and printed tutorials but didnt get the feel of it. I was so glad when MURACH announced they will be coming out with one for python. Murach's side-by-side lecture & example really works for me. And the sample codes and exercises are valuable tutorials that any newbie will want to keep as reference materials. Really effective training style. P.S. Like the other reviewer, I also would love to see a PYTHON book on GUI/web programming . But anyway , this book = 5 stars for me.
• My python class uses this book for intro to python. Everything goes well until you reach chapter 4 and because all the exercises build upon the last chapter, it only gets harder to follow. Don’t believe the rave reviews and use free resources (YouTube and others) if you really want to retain what you learned. It is true you need to keep coding to retain anything, but if the book provide specific code lines then explain it VERY vaguely (opposed to explain line-by-line) you will have a miserable time. It’s even worse for me where my entire class is based on this book and I’m spending $$$ on the class, this awful book when I’m learning more from YouTube. I’m just gonna put my school on blast Montgomery College (Germantown) change your entire curriculum with different resources.
• Let me just say this first the material in the book itself is worth 6 stars. It's second to none in its quality. This goes for all Murach books, 5 of which I own. The one reason however, that I've ranked this book and a few of their other books (made after their HTML5/CSS3 book) a 4 is that it seems like they've changed the thickness and quality of the paper the pages are printed on. I've noticed with the newer books that because the pages are thinner, if you like to take notes and highlight like myself, that everything tends to bleed through the pages and look bad. To be fair, I would rank this product a 4.8 if I could, removing a fifth of a star for this downside. Otherwise, I wouldn't suggest learning languages from anything but a Murach book.
• Murach's usual excellent coverage with examples that are actually practical
• A solid introductory level python book
• This isn't the worst book I've read on Python, but I can't call it "good" either. There are enough errors and poor practices in this book such that I won't take the sample programs as an example of good programming. For example there are frequent uses of "magic numbers" and semaphores that would earn me lower grades in computer science classes. I AM happy that this is about Python 3 rather than yet another book about Python 2.x
  
  I have a high opinion of the Murach's books on Java, SQL Server, etc. The quality of the example programs in the Java book are considerably higher than in this Python book.
• Just started using the book. I find it far more helpful than the others I am also using.
• Love this book so far. Very informative in helping me learn coding in Python.