Programming Collective Intelligence

I recently finished reading Programming Collective Intellegince and will be posting a review soon. The TL;DR review is: get it if want an great introduction to machine learning with Python. It covers a lot of complex algorithms in a simple way, and provides some great example use cases.

Python Testing Cookbook

Testing is something nearly every developer can do more of, and this Python Testing Cookbook looks to be full of techniques for integrating testing at various levels of a project. As a preview, you can download a PDF of Chapter 3 – Creating Testable Documentation with doctest.

Python 3 Web Development Beginner’s Guide

I haven’t used Python 3 yet, so Python 3 Web Development Beginner’s Guide is a good excuse to do so. I also haven’t done any web development outside of Django in a few years, and I’m interested to see how it compares to doing it from scratch. As a preview, you can download a PDF of Chapter 3 – Tasklist I Persistence.

Kindle 3

I’m reading all of these on a Kindle 3, which has worked out surprisingly well. It’s obviously not good for copy & pasting code snippets, but that’s generally a bad idea anyway. And if don’t want to type code in yourself, you can always download it from the publisher’s site.