Learn Python with a Book Designed for Beginners Hello! I’m Michael Driscoll, and I’m excited to announce the third edition of Python 101. For years, Python 101 has helped readers take their first steps into programming. Whether you’re a complete beginner, a student, or someone looking to learn Python for work or personal projects, the […]
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I am happy to announce that my latest book, Python Typing, is now available on all platforms. You can get your copy on Gumroad or Leanpub or Amazon Python has had type hinting support since Python 3.5, over TEN years ago! However, Python’s type annotations have changed repeatedly over the years. In Python Typing: Type Checking
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It’s officially summer, and I am bringing you some HOT Python deals today! Get 33% off almost all my books and courses on Gumroad today using the following H5N5F7K You can start learning the basics of Python with Python 101, or get more targeted learning with my book, Python Logging. If you want to create
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Python has had type hinting support since Python 3.5, over TEN years ago! However, Python’s type annotations have changed repeatedly over the years. In Python Typing: Type Checking for Python Programmers, you will learn all you need to know to add type hints to your Python applications effectively. You will also learn how to use Python
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I am happy to announce my latest book, Vibe Coding Video Games with Python. Here’s the announcement from my Kickstarter: Welcome to Vibe Coding Video Games with Python. In this book, you will learn how to use artificial intelligence to create mini-games. You will attempt to recreate the look and feel of various classic video
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If you are heading back to school and need to learn Python, consider checking out my sale. You can get 25% off any of my eBooks or courses using the following coupon at checkout: FALL25 Python Store My books and course cover the following topics: Beginner Python (Python 101) Intermediate Python Creating GUIs with wxPython
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Happy Fourth of July! I am hosting a sale for the 4th of July weekend, where you can get 25% off most of my books and courses. Here are the books included in the sale and the direct links with the 25% coupon already applied: Python 101 Python 201: Intermediate Python ReportLab: PDF Processing in
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My latest Python book campaign is ending in less than a week. This book is about Python’s logging module. I also include two chapters that discuss structlog and loguru. Support on Kickstarter Why Back A Kickstarter? The reason to back the Kickstarter is that I have exclusive perks there that you cannot get outside of
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What does every new developer do when they are first learning to program? They print out strings to their terminal. It’s how we learn! But printing out to the terminal isn’t what you do with most professional applications. Support on Kickstarter In those cases, you log into files. Sometimes, you log into multiple locations at
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The Python Quiz Book is Mike Driscoll’s latest book on the Python programming language. There are over one hundred quizzes and answers in the book to help you test your Python knowledge. From the Publisher Test your Python programming language the fun way… Rather than making annoying mistakes in your code! The Python Quiz Book
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I am happy to announce my latest book project, Pillow: Image Processing with Python. This book will teach you how to use Pillow, the “friendly” fork of the Python Imaging Library (PIL). You can purchase early access to the book on Kickstarter as well as get exclusive perks there such as T-shirts, signed copies of
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Packt Publishing will be selling all of their eBooks and videos for $5 from December 15th, 2020 through January 13th, 2021. If you would like to get some new Python books for a bargain price, this is a good time to do so. My book, Python Interviews, is included in the sale. Here are some
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Black Friday / Cyber Monday deals came early this year. From now until December 1st, all my books are on sale on Leanpub using the special links below. Check them out and learn something new Python today! Python 101: 2nd Edition – 25% Off on Leanpub Python 201: Intermediate Python – 30% off on Leanpub
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The second edition of my book, Python 101, has been successfully funded on Kickstarter. As is tradition, I have added a couple of stretch goals for adding more content to this already hefty book. Here are the goals: 1) $5000 – Get 4 Bonus Chapters These chapters would cover the following topics: Assignment Expressions How
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The Portable Document Format (PDF) is a well-known format popularized by Adobe. It purports to create a document that should render the same across platforms. Python has several libraries that you can use to work with PDFs: ReportLab – Creating PDFs PyPDF2 – Manipulating preexisting PDFs pdfrw – Also for manipulating preexisting PDFs, but also
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