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Automate the Boring Stuff with Python: Practical Programming for Total Beginners

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This book and its companion udemy course are excellent. I have been reading on the website section of the book, it is very helpful for beginner. It is definitely the best value textbook i purchased since my graduate school.

This book is a font of information - it covers setup of the python environment and basic programming concepts. I credit this book with my python debugging skills from all the practice projects and errors i had to figure out. This is book gets up to sp... Read More

The hitchhikers guide to python and thinking python. This is a great step-by-step guide to learning python for both beginners with little to no experience to those that are fluent in other programming languages but want to learn a new one. It gives yo... Read More

Automate the boring stuff is great for programming beginners that also don't mind learning about automating computer tasks. When i talk to people who are trying to learn to program, i always hear the same story and notice the same desperation i had. G... Read More

Cons

The book assumes you are running python 3, not python 2.

With such a finite capacity for skill development books like this can really be counterproductive. It's filled with missing pages. What most people really need to automate is beyond the scope of this book.

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I will absolutely be purchasing future books from no starch press as they publish quality material.

I haven't made my way yet to the second half of the book where the automation starts but if the first half is any indication of... Read More

I’m new to programming and new to python, i got this book because of the examples and the author is very good with the code explanations.

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This product had a total of 1,336 reviews as of our last analysis date on May 19 2022.