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 Good digrams, but that is about it
The title is a little misleading unless you take it as a literal python statement. It is true that there is object-oriented programming IN python. It is also true that this book discusses object-oriented programming IN python. But the book does little to discuss object-oriented programming WITH python. The book provides an intro to the common python elements, which the authors do provide a nice object-oriented emphasis. After that the book turns into a project-type book. Project learning (i.e. learning by example) can be a very useful approach to teaching, but in the case of this book, it seems like the emphasis is on the projects and not the more relevant concepts that form the basis of the projects. The book then comes across as a rather narrow and boring approach to learning an implementation of python. As a note, I also find it irritating when authors present oo design and graphics with a 'simplified graphics package', typically of the authors own design. I did not find one mention of TKinter in the book or index. Instead, you are given 'getting started with graphics', using the author's cs1graphics module. It either appears that the authors are deliberately shying away from real-word graphics packages because of their own limitations or that they are suggesting that their students are limited in their ability to tackle what they eventually may need to work with. Ultimately, I think the authors do a disservice in this method of presentation, where you start with a canvas, add a brand new circle (the sun) and continue adding basic shapes until you end up with a scene that vaguely resembles a composite of a tree, house, sun, and car (rectangle with two circles). If the authors extended their initial discussion of oo design and focused on it as it directly applied to python then they might have a book worth half the price they are charging, which in its current state, in my opinion, is worth about 1/10 the price.
 Best Python Book but
There are only some problems have the answer (less than 5% of the total). This was not a problem because David Letscher, one of the author, was my professor, since he rarely used problem from the book for the tests and the final.
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br /There is also a small problem with the graphic library, cs1graphics.py which people need to use for some covered topics, is not completed.
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br /However, Of all learning Python books I've read, this book is the best. It covers basic to advanced topics in a very well-organized way with clear explanations.
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