[josteink]

> This is the textbook used for the introductory CS course (CS61A) at Berkeley. The course material is available at http://cs61a.org (The course uses Python 3, Scheme, and SQL). There are some neat projects (students are working on building a Scheme interpreter now)

I'm a seasoned programmer, who after years in the industry really enjoyed SICP once I discovered it. I found it very nicely put together in the sense that it managed to teach a simple LISP and handle programming in a deeper and more academical/sciency way, and not just the regular "here's how you make a blog with whateverDB".

I'm currently looking into expanding my very basic Python knowledge, and are looking for books/courses on the subject.

Would you say this course here is good for learning Python, or would you rather recommend something else to experienced programmers?

[Scarbutt]

If you already really did SICP picking up python should be done in a matters days, what you need is a python reference.

[josteink]

Picking up the language, vs picking up what is idiomatic code, what is where in the standard library, which third party tools/libraries are common to use, etc are widely different things though.

[Scarbutt]

This is a general programming intro course that happens to just use Python, I don't know from where do you get idea that it will make emphasis about the python ecosystem. Will it make you a better Python programmer? probably, but you won't gain much if you already really did SICP. And since you are "seasoned" programmer you will have to deal with all the what is a variable, what is function etc.. all over again.