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"OK for beginning programmers" - by C. Vermillion on 15-JUN-2012
Reviewer Rating:
This book is essentially a subset of the Python and PyQt documentation organized and summarized with example code included in each section. It's useful to have all of the information in one place, but there wasn't any insight or context added either through the discussion of the features or the examples.

All of the content follows the same basic structure:
* Documentation of a feature
* Simple example code listing to type in
* Very literal step by step explanation of the example

There's no real discussion - it's very repetitive, including the chapter summaries. I would have liked to see some discussion of advanced topics, references to more information, etc. I got the feeling that the author knows a lot about Python and PyQt syntax, but doesn't actually program in it much (that could be completely wrong - it's just my impression from the text).

However, I'm a fairly senior developer with quite a few languages in my toolbox and fairly extensive knowledge of Qt. This style might work very well for someone with less experience.
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"Excellent Intro" - by AAmend on 15-MAY-2012
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Gets you started in a very easy, clear way.
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