Ask HN: How to learn Javascript and HTML for devs coming from C++/Java/Python?

Re:Ask HN: How to learn Javascript and HTML for devs coming ... by sahillavingia on Thursday October 21, 2010 @10:53AM (#1815643)

Man, I'm the complete opposite way. How would you recommend learning Python?

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Re:Ask HN: How to learn Javascript and HTML for devs coming ... by japherwocky on Thursday October 21, 2010 @11:14AM (#1815762)

The official python tutorials are pretty good actually:

http://docs.python.org/tutorial/

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Re:Ask HN: How to learn Javascript and HTML for devs coming ... by malandrew on Thursday October 21, 2010 @11:05AM (#1815699)

I've heard good things about Zed Shaw's new book http://learnpythonthehardway.org/

I've also heard great things about Allen Downey's books on Python, but I am not sure which one is best to start with.

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Re:Ask HN: How to learn Javascript and HTML for devs coming ... by jbarham on Thursday October 21, 2010 @12:09PM (#1816065)

Core Python Programming (2nd Edition) by Wesley Chun (http://python.net/crew/wesc/cpp/) is very good. It's somewhat dated now, but is very readable.

Once you've learned the language, David Beazley's Python Essential Reference (4th Edition) (http://www.dabeaz.com/per.html) is excellent.

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Re:Ask HN: How to learn Javascript and HTML for devs coming ... by cshenoy on Thursday October 21, 2010 @11:52AM (#1815982)

learnpythonthehardway.com is good. I'd also recommend Think Python at http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkpython/thinkpython.html

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Re:Ask HN: How to learn Javascript and HTML for devs coming ... by corysama on Thursday October 21, 2010 @01:21PM (#1816479)

http://diveintopython.org/ is a good python intro that assumes you already know how to program in some other language.

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