Online Textbooks

For learning more about Python

If you are a UCSB students, faculty member or staff member (i.e. anyone with a UCSBNetID, or access to computer on campus), you can get free access to a zillion great Computing related textbooks, at the link below:

http://proquest.safaribooksonline.com/

From off-campus, you can either use one of the UCSB VPN clients for Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, iOS, etc., or you can use this link (if it works, which it sometimes does):

http://proquest.safaribooksonline.com.proxy.library.ucsb.edu:2048

If you then search for “Python”, you’ll find many great Python books.

Here are a few of my favorites: