Python Programming Books

Last updated: January 3, 2012

1. Invent Your Own Computer Games with Python, 2nd Edition by Al Sweigart Published: May 1, 2010 Score: 2.35
2. Python Programming for the Absolute Beginner, 3rd Edition by Michael Dawson Published: January 1, 2010 Score: 1.77
3. Python Essential Reference (4th Edition) by David M. Beazley Published: July 19, 2009 Score: 1.43
4. Learning Python: Powerful Object-Oriented Programming by Mark Lutz Published: October 9, 2009 Score: 0.73
5. Python Programming: An Introduction to Computer Science by John M. Zelle Published: December 1, 2003 Score: 0.66
6. Programming Python by Mark Lutz Published: January 7, 2011 Score: 0.65
7. Dive Into Python by Mark Pilgrim Published: March 20, 2009 Score: 0.63
8. Python Programming: An Introduction to Computer Science 2nd Edition by John M. Zelle Published: May 18, 2010 Score: 0.63
9. Python in a Nutshell, Second Edition (In a Nutshell) by Alex Martelli Published: July 21, 2006 Score: 0.61
10. Core Python Programming (2nd Edition) by Wesley Chun Published: September 28, 2006 Score: 0.59
11. Beginning Python: From Novice to Professional (Books for Professionals by Professionals) by Magnus Lie Hetland Published: September 10, 2008 Score: 0.55
12. Python Essential Reference (3rd Edition) by David M. Beazley Published: March 2, 2006 Score: 0.55
13. The Quick Python Book, Second Edition by Vern Ceder Published: January 15, 2010 Score: 0.5
14. Regular Expression Pocket Reference: Regular Expressions for Perl, Ruby, PHP, Python, C, Java and .NET (Pocket Reference (O'Reilly)) by Tony Stubblebine Published: July 25, 2007 Score: 0.45
15. Python Cookbook by Alex Martelli, Anna Ravenscroft and David Ascher Published: March 25, 2005 Score: 0.44
16. Learning Python, 3rd Edition by Mark Lutz Published: October 22, 2007 Score: 0.43
17. The Python Standard Library by Example (Developer's Library) by Doug Hellmann Published: June 11, 2011 Score: 0.42
18. Gray Hat Python: Python Programming for Hackers and Reverse Engineers by Justin Seitz Published: April 30, 2009 Score: 0.41
19. Rapid GUI Programming with Python and Qt (Prentice Hall Open Source Software Development) by Mark Summerfield Published: October 28, 2007 Score: 0.33
20. Python Pocket Reference: Python in Your Pocket (Pocket Reference (O'Reilly)) by Mark Lutz Published: October 15, 2009 Score: 0.33
21. Head First Programming: A Learner's Guide to Programming Using the Python Language by David Griffiths and Paul Barry Published: December 1, 2009 Score: 0.31
22. Head First Python by Paul Barry Published: December 7, 2010 Score: 0.26
23. Beginning Python: From Novice to Professional by Magnus Lie Hetland Published: October 4, 2005 Score: 0.25
24. Starting Out with Python (2nd Edition) (Gaddis Series) by Tony Gaddis Published: March 9, 2011 Score: 0.25
25. Python Scripting for Computational Science (Texts in Computational Science and Engineering) by Hans Petter Langtangen Published: November 23, 2010 Score: 0.22