September 3, 2020 by
Mike Packt Publishing recently released a new book called Modern Python Cookbook by Steven Lott. It's sub-title is "133 recipes to develop flawless and expressive programs in Python 3.8, 2nd Edition", which may give you some indication that this is a big book. In fact, it clocks in at 822 pages! I first read Lott's Mastering […]
No Starch Press asked me to do a technical review of one of their upcoming books, Serious Python: Black-Belt Advice on Deployment, Scalability, Testing, and More by Julien Danjou last year. I had never worked with No Starch before, but decided to give them a try and see how they differed from Packt Publishing. I […]
November 14, 2017 by
Mike A couple of months ago, Brian Okken asked me if I would be interested in reading his book, Python Testing with pytest. I have been interested in learning more about the pytest package for a while, so I agreed to take a look. I also liked that the publisher was The Pragmatic Programmers, which I've […]
Packt Publishing approached me about being a technical reviewer for the book, Software Architecture with Python by Anand Balachandran Pillai. It sounded pretty interesting so I ended up doing the review for Packt. They ended up releasing the book in April 2017. Quick Review Why I picked it up: Packt Publishing asked me to do […]
February 10, 2017 by
Mike I review books for the i-programmer website from time to time and they recently gave me a copy of Murach's Python Programming by Michael Urban and Joel Murach. This book is long at almost 600 pages and it's pretty expensive for the paperback. For those of you with short attention spans, I give you the […]
I get asked by publishers to review books from time to time. Last month, Packt asked me if I'd be willing to review for their book, Python Projects for Kids by Jessica Ingrassellino. Frankly I tend to avoid beginning Python books now because they tend to be very similar, but I thought this one might […]
