My dad recently asked me for a good book to learn Python, causing my heart to swell with pride. I’m pretty sure the last programming language he learned was Fortran, since that’s what they’ve been using for the past zillion years in his department at GE. He once told me that he’s gotten to the age where every new thing he learns causes something else to get deleted, but I think Python is worth giving up his memories of my crappy piano recitals.

Coincidentally I was asked not too long ago to review the books Python Multimedia and MySQL for Python. MySQL for Python hasn’t been published yet, but I’m looking forward to reading it because we use MySQL at Mingle, and to be honest, my MySQL knowledge is not the greatest. If it wasn’t for John and Glen the database server would probably be on fire actually.

When I’m done with Python Multimedia I’ll post a full review.

Full disclosure: I received a free electronic copy of Python Multimedia and the amazon links are affiliate links (have to get my laundry money somehow).