Background: I'm a statistician data scientist who works mainly in R, and has done some C and C++ coding (numerical algorithms, not any general-purpose stuff). I'm looking to learn Python, which seems ...

Finally, a book good enough to be both a textbook and a reference on the Python language now exists. Part of Prentice Hall's PTR Core Series, this book works well as a first Python textbook for ...

OpenStax, the Rice University-based provider of free, peer-reviewed, openly licensed course materials, has expanded its content library with a new computer science textbook: Introduction to Python ...