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Automate The Boring Stuff With Python, 2nd Edition: Practical Programming for Total Beginners Paperback – Illustrated, 12 November 2019

by Al Sweigart (Author)

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The second edition of this best-selling Python book (100,000+ copies sold in print alone) uses Python 3 to teach even the technically uninclined how to write programs that do in minutes what would take hours to do by hand. There is no prior programming experience required and the book is loved by liberal arts majors and geeks alike.

If you've ever spent hours renaming files or updating hundreds of spreadsheet cells, you know how tedious tasks like these can be. But what if you could have your computer do them for you?

In this fully revised second edition of the best-selling classic Automate the Boring Stuff with Python, you'll learn how to use Python to write programs that do in minutes what would take you hours to do by hand--no prior programming experience required. You'll learn the basics of Python and explore Python's rich library of modules for performing specific tasks, like scraping data off websites, reading PDF and Word documents, and automating clicking and typing tasks.

The second edition of this international fan favorite includes a brand-new chapter on input validation, as well as tutorials on automating Gmail and Google Sheets, plus tips on automatically updating CSV files. You'll learn how to create programs that effortlessly perform useful feats of automation to:

- Search for text in a file or across multiple files
- Create, update, move, and rename files and folders
- Search the Web and download online content
- Update and format data in Excel spreadsheets of any size
- Split, merge, watermark, and encrypt PDFs
- Send email responses and text notifications
- Fill out online forms

Step-by-step instructions walk you through each program, and updated practice projects at the end of each chapter challenge you to improve those programs and use your newfound skills to automate similar tasks.

Don't spend your time doing work a well-trained monkey could do. Even if you've never written a line of code, you can make your computer do the grunt work. Learn how in Automate the Boring Stuff with Python, 2nd Edition.

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Language : English
Paperback : 500 pages
ISBN-10 : 1593279922
ISBN-13 : 978-1593279929

Best Sellers Rank: 8,370 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- 40 in Programming Languages
- 194 in Graphics & Multimedia Software

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Praise for the first edition of Automate the Boring Stuff with Python:

The best part of programming is the triumph of seeing the machine do something useful. Automate the Boring Stuff with Python frames all of programming as these small triumphs; it makes the boring fun."
--Hilary Mason, Founder of Fast Forward Labs and Data Scientist in Residence at Accel

"Do you need Automate the Boring Stuff with Python? Yes, if you want to enhance your workflow by using automation, this is an excellent place to start. Highly recommended."
--Network World

"Valuable to have on your shelf...an extremely useful book."
--Kids, Code, and Computer Science Magazine

Automate the Boring Stuff with Python is perfect for anyone who has menial tasks they don't want to spend hours doing.
--GeekMom

Whether you prefer working through a book, or learning by watching, or both together, Automate the Boring Stuff will have you productive in Python in no time.
--Serdar Yegulalp, InfoWorld

If you seriously want to know how much Python helps with automation, my favorite place is the Automate Boring Stuff with Python book, a simply awesome book.
--Javin Paul, Hacker Noon

About the Author

Al Sweigart is a professional software developer who teaches programming to kids and adults. Sweigart has written several bestselling programming books for beginners, including Automate the Boring Stuff with Python, Invent Your Own Computer Games with Python, Cracking Codes with Python, and Coding with Minecraft (all from No Starch Press).


	Python for Kids by Jason Briggs	Python Crash Course 2nd edition by Eric Matthes	Automate the Boring Stuff 2nd edition by Al Sweigart	Python Flash Cards by Eric Matthes	Impractical Python Projects by Lee Vaughan	Serious Python by Julien Danjou
User experience level	Beginner	Beginner	Beginner	Beginner to Intermediate	Intermediate	Intermediate
For readers who want	A gentle, kid-friendly introduction to Python	A fast-paced, thorough introduction to Python	A practical guide to using Python for automating tedious tasks	A quick and easy way to review Python fundamentals, vocabulary, syntax and more	Fun, entertaining projects to take your Python skills to the next level	Expert, practical advice and tutorials to perfect your professional Python skills
Compatible with Python version	Python 3	Python 3	Python 3	Python 3	Python 3	Python 2 & 3
Special features	Kid-friendly, full-color code and illustrations	Covers Django, matplotlib and plotly, and pygame	Covers working with files en masse, automating emails and texts, scraping the web, and more	Flash card format; includes exercises and challenges to test and hone your skills	Covers modules like pygame, Pylint, pydocstyle, tkinter, python-docx, matplotlib, and pillow	Covers powerful techniques like using generators, handling time zones, and applying functional programming
Page count	344 pages	544 pages	592 pages	101 cards	424 pages	240 pages

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Jason chew

Awesome Book

18 July 2020

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good condition and fast delivery!

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Levi Gonzales

Really made for total beginners but can be used by seasoned developers as well

8 May 2020 - Published on Amazon.com

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As this book makes very clear from the start, you don’t have to be a programmer to using this book. I’m a professional software engineer that just needed to learn some python automation for work and personal projects. This book helped me get there but I can see how this book really was tailored toward those who are not experienced in programming as it breaks down each section into consumable bits that would seem a bit tedious to someone like me but would be perfectly helpful to someone without programming experience. I was able to skim the first few chapters that teach the language as I’m already versed in programming and was able to glean pythons syntax style pretty quickly. It’s a simple yet elegant language especially compared to others that I use daily. The part about this book that got me all excited was the web scraping section. As a web developer, I deal with web pages a lot and it would be nice to have some scripts that would auto fill forms and interact with the web pages for me as I’m making code changes on the day to day. It would really make my job—even as a developer—super easy, and it has.

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H2O

I am sure it will be a very good book

27 November 2019 - Published on Amazon.com

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Add this book to my small collection of Python books, and I am sure it will be a very good book, because this is not my first book for the same author (Al Sweigart), I have one more else, +the author provides all his books for free reading in the net, +there is an Udemy video course for this book by him.
Hoping good reading, practicing, time with this book.

34 people found this helpful

John

Overall great book but not so great for actual programming beginners

24 May 2020 - Published on Amazon.com

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While this is indeed a great book to get started with python projects I won’t say it’s a great book for total beginners.

The author often uses coding concepts at the beginning of the book that are not explained until a later chapter leaving some beginners feeling overwhelmed with his programming methods.

I am not a beginner though so understanding the basics was easy for me. The projects are really good for beginners too. Though I would recommend starting with Python Crash Course 2nd edition which goes through the fundamentals in greater detail and is more organized in its teaching approach (it also comes with projects at the end of the fundamental chapters).

Overall good book just wished it was better organized for the “beginner”

23 people found this helpful

sarah

Love this practical Python Automation Book

7 January 2020 - Published on Amazon.com

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I just bought couple of weeks before. Almost half of the book I have finished. The author explains very well and You can actually use his example in python and test them. I recommend people who looking to work as a Cloud Architect / AWS architect etc.

25 people found this helpful

OB1Jakobi

Good Projects, but Not an Ideal Book for a True Beginner

17 November 2020 - Published on Amazon.com

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This book is intended for beginners, and really breaks down python in a very approachable manner. Despite that being said, I wouldn't recommend this book to a beginner. In the preface, the author mentions that this book uses many bad habits (or at the very least frowned upon habits), which is true. Many of coding examples are inefficient (which, to the author's credit, he acknowledges), and while the code might run, it's not going to be pretty. The projects look worthwhile, and those alone would be what I'd argue makes the book worth it. Many novice developers (as well as intermediate & advanced) can shrug off the idiosyncrasies that are presented in this book, but a person brand new to coding would likely misunderstand the material, ultimately leading to bad habits that'll be harder to unlearn.

For a true beginner, I'd recommend the Python Crash Course book by the same publisher (No Starch Press). The fundamentals are clearly presented, and easy to understand. The foundation developed will be stronger, and you'll be less likely to develop bad habits, since most of the material is presented in a manner consistent with the python community (PEP).

For example, the way variables and input functions are utilized between the two books are drastically different. In this book, user input and assignment is handled as follows:

print('What's your name?')
name = input()

This is inefficient, and somewhat confusing, given that the alternative (as presented in Python Crash Course) is easier. In Python Crash Course, the same outcome is presented as follows:

name = input("What is your name? ")

The print statement asking for the user's name is excessive. If I'm trying to automate the boring stuff, I'm trying to trim the fat - not eat it.

11 people found this helpful

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