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  • Bill
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    OOP in Python book?

    Does anyone out there have any information about this book. It's
    listed on Amazon to be published in November of this year. A simple
    Google search (1st page only) doesn't show anything useful, and I
    can't find a reference on the web sites of the authors. Neither of the
    authors appears to be heavily into OOP theory, just some CS areas that
    I don't understand.

    I'm particularly interested in why this book is worth the $100 tag
    that Amazon shows.

    TIA,

    Bill

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    • Dick Moores
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      Re: OOP in Python book?

      At 08:41 AM 7/27/2007, Bill wrote:
      >Does anyone out there have any information about this book. It's
      >listed on Amazon to be published in November of this year. A simple
      >Google search (1st page only) doesn't show anything useful, and I
      >can't find a reference on the web sites of the authors. Neither of the
      >authors appears to be heavily into OOP theory, just some CS areas that
      >I don't understand.
      >
      >I'm particularly interested in why this book is worth the $100 tag
      >that Amazon shows.
      Well, the publisher is Prentice Hall, "The world's leading
      educational publisher". Textbooks are typically expensive.

      Here's the Amazon link:
      <http://www.amazon.com/Object-Oriented-Programming-Python-Michael-Goldwasser/dp/0136150314>

      Dick Moores


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        • Dick Moores
          #3
          Re: OOP in Python book?

          At 01:27 PM 7/28/2007, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
          >On Fri, 27 Jul 2007 16:27:57 -0700, Dick Moores <rdm@rcblue.com >
          >declaimed the following in comp.lang.pytho n:
          >
          >
          Well, the publisher is Prentice Hall, "The world's leading
          educational publisher". Textbooks are typically expensive.
          >
          Yeah... But at that price it should have hard-covers!
          Should have, but look at this popular Cultural Anthropology text
          (paperback): <http://tinyurl.com/38ec5s>. List price is $120.95 USD.
          (BTW I just bought the 6th edition online for about $10.)

          Then there's Calculus: Single Variable (Paperback)
          <http://tinyurl.com/2lqw9cList price $123.95 USD.

          And so it goes.

          Dick


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            • Steve Holden
              #4
              Re: OOP in Python book?

              James Stroud wrote:
              Dick Moores wrote:
              >At 01:27 PM 7/28/2007, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
              >>
              >>On Fri, 27 Jul 2007 16:27:57 -0700, Dick Moores <rdm@rcblue.com >
              >>declaimed the following in comp.lang.pytho n:
              >>>
              >>>
              >>>Well, the publisher is Prentice Hall, "The world's leading
              >>>educationa l publisher". Textbooks are typically expensive.
              >>>>
              >> Yeah... But at that price it should have hard-covers!
              >>
              >Should have, but look at this popular Cultural Anthropology text
              >(paperback): <http://tinyurl.com/38ec5s>. List price is $120.95 USD.
              >(BTW I just bought the 6th edition online for about $10.)
              >>
              >Then there's Calculus: Single Variable (Paperback)
              ><http://tinyurl.com/2lqw9cList price $123.95 USD.
              >>
              >And so it goes.
              >>
              >Dick
              >>
              >>
              >
              Balme your professors. They are not paying for the books. Of course most
              will be give a lot of lip-service to educational access for
              disadvantaged groups but thier choice of books usually suggests
              otherwise. The high price of textbooks and the tendency for professors
              to overlook alternatives is helping to keep the rich educated and the
              poor, well, poor.
              >
              James
              >
              Though like the music industry the book publishing trade is having to
              come to terms with the fact that they no longer have the same monopoly
              on information that they used to.

              regards
              Steve
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