New Amazon Reviews
There have been two new reviews posted on Amazon; one on Amazon.com and the other on Amazon.co.uk. I won't be posting here every time a new review goes up on Amazon, but this is the first on the British site and only the second on the main site. As the book hasn't been out very long it is very encouraging to see the book being well received by real life readers!
The new review on the US site is by Hernan Garcia:
A very good and useful book to start using IronPython. You only need to have an idea of programming (any language) before starting with this book. It will be useful for both the Python programmer or the .Net programmer.
The demo application is done following good programming practices and common patterns (something very much welcomed).
The book shows how to use the language in desktop and web applications; Silverlight and embedding it into your c# apps. (Ex: as an scripting option for your users to extend the program).
It reads pretty fast. I didn't find any cruft on the book, something that is not very common with technical books. Along the chapters you will find pointers to resources in the internet to deal with subjects that are not specific to the book but they are mentioned or referenced somehow.
The reviewer on the UK Amazon site is J.D. Schans:
Fantastic book: Straightforward enough for me to get started, but with enough detail to be useful as a reference book as well. Particularly liked the Silverlight and the testing chapters. Fun style of writing and 'real' enough examples.