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The big book is a great exercise in forcing a developer to think differently about their approach to coding. For those that are teaching themselves, which is likely the majority of readers, an unusual feature of the book is the set of instructions giv... Read More
This book is aimed at the late beginner / early intermediate python programmer. The best thing a programmer can do is practice practice practice & this book helps you do exactly that.
The big book of small python projects seeks to help fill that gap for people who are just starting to program. Each chapter (project) ends with an “exploring the program’ section that includes a set of questions that reinforce what you have learned fo... Read More
Program basic concepts for beginners. Making example programs that are legible to beginners is a challenge.
Project 7, caesar a program to decrypt caesar cipher messages without the encryption key. Project 43, the ancient two-player board game from mesopotamia. Project 66, simple substitution an encryption scheme more advanced than the caesar cipher.
Cons
Terrible formatting on the kindle version. Avoid the digital version. Maybe the print version is better.
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The examples and projects in the book are engaging and have allowed me to quickly build my skills and confidence.
There is a really good feeling to see projects/programs come to life and there are options to modify the basic project and give... Read More
The former has been deprecated and obsolete for about a decade now, and finally in 2020 it was formally killed off five years a... Read More
Project 80, vigenère cipher: an encryption scheme so advanced it remained unbreakable for hundreds of years until computers were invented.
Competitiveness
Al sweigart always writes great python books, but this one, the big book of small python projects, is better than the rest!
It is obvious that he is not the inventor of this method nor is he the only one who has used it in programming, other good exam... Read More
Then look at the design patterns al chose, and see how my approach compares with another way of achieving the same thing.
Overall, i thought this was a great follow-on to automate the boring stuff and even beyond the boring stuff.
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All projects are text based even the ones with titles suggesting a graphical component
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Just basic python with very limited use of additional libraries
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Second it acts as a great reference for if you have an idea in the future but are struggling on how to implement the idea
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His books are written as if they were college text books
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I kind of was stuck in a tutorial hell where every resource i was trying to access was either too hard or too easy
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I have been following ai sweigart since the pycon conference
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I wish there are more books like this
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In this book those explanations are more along the lines of this is what the program does showing the code and then offering you examples of how to change the code and observe the changes to help you actually understand what the code is doing and how the program works as a whole
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