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Author: Zed A. Shaw
ISBN : 0321884914
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You Will Learn Python!
Zed Shaw has perfected the world's best system for learning Python. Follow it and you will succeed-just like the hundreds of thousands of beginners Zed has taught to date! You bring the discipline, commitment, and persistence; the author supplies everything else.
In Learn Python the Hard Way, Third Edition, you'll learn Python by working through 52 brilliantly crafted exercises. Read them. Type their code precisely. (No copying and pasting!) Fix your mistakes. Watch the programs run. As you do, you'll learn how software works; what good programs look like; how to read, write, and think about code; and how to find and fix your mistakes using tricks professional programmers use. Most importantly, you'll learn the following, which you need to start writing excellent Python software of your own:
Installing a complete Python environment
Organizing and writing code
Basic mathematics
Variables
Strings and text
Interacting with users
Working with files
Looping and logic
Data structures using lists and dictionaries
Program design
Object-oriented programming
Inheritance and composition
Modules, classes, and objects
Python packaging
Debugging
Automated testing
Basic game development
Basic web development
It'll be hard at first. But soon, you'll just get it-and that will feel great!
This tutorial will reward you for every minute you put into it. Soon, you'll know one of the world's most powerful, popular programming languages. You'll be a Python programmer.
Watch Zed, too! The accompanying DVD contains 5+ hours of passionate, powerful teaching: a complete Python video course!
Direct download links available for Free Learn Python the Hard Way: A Very Simple Introduction to the Terrifyingly Beautiful World of Computers and Code
- Series: Zed Shaw's Hard Way Series
- Paperback: 320 pages
- Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional; 3 edition (October 11, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0321884914
- ISBN-13: 978-0321884916
- Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.9 x 0.8 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Free Learn Python the Hard Way: A Very Simple Introduction to the Terrifyingly Beautiful World of Computers and Code
As a programming language junky and former programming languages book author, I found this book to be very interesting and useful. The author teaches you programming in Python by using the divide and conquer approach. Each exercise cover a small part of the language, enabling you to easily digest learning Python. The videos on the companion DVD are very nice. I found the author's dislike of object-oriented programming terms a bit disappointing, but he is certainly entitled to his opinion. Nevertheless, I think this book is worth getting and I recommend it for readers who are beginner to medium level programmers. Advanced programmers will very quickly breeze through the book.
By Namir C. Shammas
Doesn't bog you down with heavy conceptual terminology. This is "learn by doing". A way of learning that emphasizes learning via exposure. By going head on and doing the exercises, you don't think about understanding. Understanding comes after. This approach is very much like learning to play an instrument or tackle a martial art. You focus on obtaining the techniques and worry about all the theory later.
You won't become a master at python with this book, but you will become comfortable with syntax and know what is relevant to move on to the more challenging parts of programming with Python.
Don't start with any Python Book until you go through this one first. This is the warm up and stretching part of your learning routine.
By ALLEN M GUANAGA
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