Some good resources for perl/python

[carrja99]

Recently I've become highly interested in using different languages than my usual C/C++ programs I write (it was my language of choice, basically because it was also the ONLY main language I used).

I've been doing some neat stuff with java and php (who would have known you could do socket programming with php to!?) but I'm looking to expand my knowledge a bit. I've recently become acquainted with perl, writing various cgi scripts with it (although php tends to be better suited for form processing imo) as well as some other fundamental stuff...

However, I hear all this screaming about python, and want to give it a spin. We get extra credit for doing programming projects in different languages, and I was curious if python does good with network programming and operating system concept stuff (doing stuff with processes, etc)

THanks in advance for any help.

[Strike]

Python does everything. And it does it well too.

Some python resources (http://coderforums.com/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=88 )
The Python Tutorial (http://www.python.org/doc/current/tut)
How to Think Like a Computer Scientist with Python (http://www.ibiblio.org/obp/thinkCSpy)

[Thanatos21]

I'm pretty young (just turned 15) but I started off with python, basically my very first non-windows anything. I JUST installed linux redhat 7 (the GUI didn't work, got a bad version or something) then switched to 9 and am incredibly happy [= Anywho that's not the point, if you want to look into python I recommend getting a cheap book that teaches the basics very well such as Python by Christ Fehily, a Visual Quickstart Guide. It has a lot of code for you to look at and actually see what's happening instead of lots of reading with a few pics here and there, plus its only about $25. Though I've already learned the basics, I'm reading the entire book, from cover to cover because there's a lot of stuff in there. The sites I originally learned from are:


http://honors.montana.edu/~jjc/easytut/easytut/node2.html
http://www.hetland.org/python/instant-hacking.php

Of course these are just basics, so once you learn all the syntax you could just further your knowledge with more advanced books or whatever, either way happy programming [=