Have had this for one day and the cover is already coming off. Nothing a little glue won’t fix, and that’s the downside of paperbacks that you have to put weight on to keep closed, in my opinion.
BUT the inner content is well worth it. I’ve been wanting to learn programming for years but have often gone away discouraged because the tutorials and teachers randomly start throwing complicated problems at you out of nowhere.
Not so with this book. It eases you into each topic, breaks it down very clearly, and has exercises throughout that you can follow along with. Make sure you follow along! There are specific exercises throughout, but I highly recommend typing out the example code and playing around with it/experimenting on your own as well. Then by the time you get to the exercises you’ll have a good idea about how to approach it.
STICK WITH IT! I decided I wanted to learn to program 10 years ago! I would start for a week and then quit when it got too complicated and felt overwhelming. Then I’d come back to it a few years later, and same thing. Then it hit me one day, “If I had pushed through the first time and been patient, I’d have 10 years of experience as a programmer right now. Do I want to look back in another 10 years and feel that way again? Or do I want to push through this time so in 10 years I’ll actually have the experience under my belt!?”
Easy answer!
Stick with it. Be patient with yourself if things get too complicated or you “feel too dumb” to get it. If you hit a block, go back a few pages and go through it again. Everyone is selling “learn ____ quick!” books these days. It’s a good way to get random chunks of knowledge but a terrible way to master it. So be patient!
And get this book. :). It makes things very simple to understand and really holds your hand through everything.
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| 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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Great inner content! Not that great outer quality. Still worth it!
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