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Recommend me a Python book for absolute beginners (lemmy.world)
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My SO is interested in learning Python because she hopes it becomes useful in her work. She works with ArcGIS and/or QGIS and apparently it supports Python scripting so she's thinking about giving it a go.

She has no programming background so I was hoping you friends could suggest something for absolute beginners that would teach her both the Python and programming basics. It doesn't have to be very comprehensive, just something to get her started.

She has managed to get some scripts working through copy/pasting and minor adjustments but she lacks the foundations to really build a script of her own.

Thanks a lot!!

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[โ€“] Wolf314159@startrek.website 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I'm not the one being combative here. You're attitude is pretty condescending and alienating. Are you okay?

[โ€“] GBU_28@lemm.ee 1 points 9 hours ago

Absolutely not. I'm in line with others.

I suggested a basic python book, then listed topics to get into next. They didn't discount they already work in gis, it acknowledges they said they want to learn how to code and apply it to GIS.