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Automate the Boring Stuff with Python, 2nd Edition: Practical Programming for Total Beginners 12/11/2019

$36.09

Learn how to code while you write programs that effortlessly perform useful feats of automation!

The second edition of this international fan favorite includes a brand-new chapter on input validation, Gmail and Google Sheets automations, tips for updating CSV files, and more.

If you've ever spent hours renaming files or updating spreadsheet cells, you know how tedious tasks like these can be. But what if you could have your computer do them for you? Automate the Boring Stuff with Python, 2nd Edition teaches even the technically uninclined how to write programs that do in minutes what would take hours to do by hand—no prior coding experience required!

This new, fully revised edition of Al Sweigart’s bestselling Pythonic classic, Automate the Boring Stuff with Python, covers all the basics of Python 3 while exploring its rich library of modules for performing specific tasks, like scraping data off the Web, filling out forms, renaming files, organizing folders, sending email responses, and merging, splitting, or encrypting PDFs. There’s also a brand-new chapter on input validation, tutorials on automating Gmail and Google Sheets, tips on automatically updating CSV files, and other recent feats of automations that improve your efficiency.

Detailed, step-by-step instructions walk you through each program, allowing you to create useful tools as you build out your programming skills, 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. Boring tasks no longer have to take to get through—and neither does learning Python!

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Invent Your Own Computer Games with Python, 4th Edition 16/12/2016

by Al Sweigart

( 360 )

$25.64

Invent Your Own Computer Games with Python will teach you how to make computer games using the popular Python programming language—even if you’ve never programmed before!

Begin by building classic games like Hangman, Guess the Number, and Tic-Tac-Toe, and then work your way up to more advanced games, like a text-based treasure hunting game and an animated collision-dodging game with sound effects. Along the way, you’ll learn key programming and math concepts that will help you take your game programming to the next level.

Learn how to:
–Combine loops, variables, and flow control statements into real working programs
–Choose the right data structures for the job, such as lists, dictionaries, and tuples
–Add graphics and animation to your games with the pygame module
–Handle keyboard and mouse input
–Program simple artificial intelligence so you can play against the computer
–Use cryptography to convert text messages into secret code
–Debug your programs and find common errors

As you work through each game, you’ll build a solid foundation in Python and an understanding of computer science fundamentals.

What new game will you create with the power of Python?

The projects in this book are compatible with Python 3.

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Beyond the Basic Stuff with Python: Best Practices for Writing Clean Code 22/12/2020

by Al Sweigart

( 176 )

$30.39

BRIDGE THE GAP BETWEEN NOVICE AND PROFESSIONAL

You've completed a basic Python programming tutorial or finished Al Sweigart's bestseller, Automate the Boring Stuff with Python. What's the next step toward becoming a capable, confident software developer?

Welcome to Beyond the Basic Stuff with Python. More than a mere collection of advanced syntax and masterful tips for writing clean code, you'll learn how to advance your Python programming skills by using the command line and other professional tools like code formatters, type checkers, linters, and version control. Sweigart takes you through best practices for setting up your development environment, naming variables, and improving readability, then tackles documentation, organization and performance measurement, as well as object-oriented design and the Big-O algorithm analysis commonly used in coding interviews. The skills you learn will boost your ability to program--not just in Python but in any language.

You'll learn:

Coding style, and how to use Python's Black auto-formatting tool for cleaner code

Common sources of bugs, and how to detect them with static analyzers

How to structure the files in your code projects with the Cookiecutter template tool

Functional programming techniques like lambda and higher-order functions

How to profile the speed of your code with Python's built-in timeit and cProfile modules

The computer science behind Big-O algorithm analysis

How to make your comments and docstrings informative, and how often to write them

How to create classes in object-oriented programming, and why they're used to organize code

Toward the end of the book you'll read a detailed source-code breakdown of two classic command-line games, the Tower of Hanoi (a logic puzzle) and Four-in-a-Row (a two-player tile-dropping game), and a breakdown of how their code follows the book's best practices. You'll test your skills by implementing the program yourself.

Of course, no single book can make you a professional software developer. But Beyond the Basic Stuff with Python will get you further down that path and make you a better programmer, as you learn to write readable code that's easy to debug and perfectly Pythonic

Requirements: Covers Python 3.6 and higher

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Cracking Codes with Python: An Introduction to Building and Breaking Ciphers 23/01/2018

by Al Sweigart

( 250 )

$25.64

Learn how to program in Python while making and breaking ciphers—algorithms used to create and send secret messages!

After a crash course in Python programming basics, you’ll learn to make, test, and hack programs that encrypt text with classical ciphers like the transposition cipher and Vigenère cipher. You’ll begin with simple programs for the reverse and Caesar ciphers and then work your way up to public key cryptography, the type of encryption used to secure today’s online transactions, including digital signatures, email, and Bitcoin.

Each program includes the full code and a line-by-line explanation of how things work. By the end of the book, you’ll have learned how to code in Python and you’ll have the clever programs to prove it!

You’ll also learn how to:

- Combine loops, variables, and flow control statements into real working programs
- Use dictionary files to instantly detect whether decrypted messages are valid English or gibberish
- Create test programs to make sure that your code encrypts and decrypts correctly
- Code (and hack!) a working example of the affine cipher, which uses modular arithmetic to encrypt a message
- Break ciphers with techniques such as brute-force and frequency analysis

There’s no better way to learn to code than to play with real programs. Cracking Codes with Python makes the learning fun!

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Making Games with Python & Pygame 10/02/2012

by Al Sweigart

( 92 )

$3.99

Making Games with Python & Pygame is a programming book that covers the Pygame game library for the Python programming language. Each chapter gives you the complete source code for a new game and teaches the programming concepts from these examples. The book is available under a Creative Commons license and can be downloaded in full for free from http://inventwithpython.com/pygame

This book was written to be understandable by kids as young as 10 to 12 years old, although it is great for anyone of any age who has some familiarity with Python.

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The Big Book of Small Python Projects: 81 Easy Practice Programs 29/06/2021

by Al Sweigart

( 77 )

$34.19

Best-selling author Al Sweigart shows you how to easily build over 80 fun programs with minimal code and maximum creativity.

If you’ve mastered basic Python syntax and you’re ready to start writing programs, you’ll find The Big Book of Small Python Projects both enlightening and fun. This collection of 81 Python projects will have you making digital art, games, animations, counting pro- grams, and more right away. Once you see how the code works, you’ll practice re-creating the programs and experiment by adding your own custom touches.

These simple, text-based programs are 256 lines of code or less. And whether it’s a vintage screensaver, a snail-racing game, a clickbait headline generator, or animated strands of DNA, each project is designed to be self-contained so you can easily share it online.

You’ll create:
• Hangman, Blackjack, and other games to play against your friends or the computer
• Simulations of a forest fire, a million dice rolls, and a Japanese abacus
• Animations like a virtual fish tank, a rotating cube, and a bouncing DVD logo screensaver
• A first-person 3D maze game
• Encryption programs that use ciphers like ROT13 and Vigenère to conceal text

If you’re tired of standard step-by-step tutorials, you’ll love the learn-by-doing approach of The Big Book of Small Python Projects. It’s proof that good things come in small programs!

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Scratch 3 Programming Playground: Learn to Program by Making Cool Games 19/01/2021

by Al Sweigart

( 26 )

$23.85

A project-filled introduction to coding that shows kids how to build programs by making cool games.

Scratch, the colorful drag-and-drop programming language, is used by millions of first-time learners worldwide. Scratch 3 features an updated interface, new programming blocks, and the ability to run on tablets and smartphones, so you can learn how to code on the go.

In Scratch 3 Programming Playground, you'll learn to code by making cool games. Get ready to destroy asteroids, shoot hoops, and slice and dice fruit! Each game includes easy-to-follow instructions with full-color images, review questions, and creative coding challenges to make the game your own. Want to add more levels or a cheat code? No problem, just write some code.

You'll learn to make games like:

Maze Runner: escape the maze!

Snaaaaaake: gobble apples and avoid your own tail

Asteroid Breaker: smash space rocks

Fruit Slicer: a Fruit Ninja clone

Brick Breaker: a remake of Breakout, the brick-breaking classic

Platformer: a game inspired by Super Mario Bros

Learning how to program shouldn't be dry and dreary. With Scratch 3 Programming Playground, you'll make a game of it!

Covers: Scratch 3

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Hacking Secret Ciphers with Python 24/04/2015

by Al Sweigart

( 68 )

$3.99

Hacking Secret Ciphers with Python not only teaches you how to write in secret ciphers with paper and pencil. This book teaches you how to write your own cipher programs and also the hacking programs that can break the encrypted messages from these ciphers. Unfortunately, the programs in this book won’t get the reader in trouble with the law (or rather, fortunately) but it is a guide on the basics of both cryptography and the Python programming language. Instead of presenting a dull laundry list of concepts, this book provides the source code to several fun programming projects for adults and young adults.

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The Recursive Book of Recursion: Ace the Coding Interview with Python and JavaScript 16/08/2022

by Al Sweigart

$54.15

An accessible yet rigorous crash course on recursive programming using Python and JavaScript examples.

Recursion has an intimidating reputation: it’s considered to be an advanced computer science topic frequently brought up in coding interviews. But there’s nothing magical about recursion.

The Recursive Book of Recursion uses Python and JavaScript examples to teach the basics of recursion, exposing the ways that it’s often poorly taught and clarifying the fundamental principles of all recursive algorithms. You’ll learn when to use recursive functions (and, most importantly, when not to use them), how to implement the classic recursive algorithms often brought up in job interviews, and how recursive techniques can help solve countless problems involving tree traversal, combinatorics, and other tricky topics.

This project-based guide contains complete, runnable programs to help you learn:

How recursive functions make use of the call stack, a critical data structure almost never discussed in lessons on recursion

How the head-tail and “leap of faith” techniques can simplify writing recursive functions

How to use recursion to write custom search scripts for your filesystem, draw fractal art, create mazes, and more

How optimization and memoization make recursive algorithms more efficient

Al Sweigart has built a career explaining programming concepts in a fun, approachable manner. If you’ve shied away from learning recursion but want to add this technique to your programming toolkit, or if you’re racing to prepare for your next job interview, this book is for you.

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Der Weg zum Python-Profi: Ein Best-Practice-Buch für sauberes Programmieren (German Edition) 26/01/2022

by Al Sweigart,, Volkmar Gronau

( 1 )

$36.18

Brückenschlag zu einer anderen Ebene der Python-Programmierung

Wegweiser für fortgeschrittene Python-Coder

verbessern Sie Ihren Codierungs-Stil

setzen Sie Automatismen und Funktionen effektiv ein

Sie haben ein grundlegendes Python-Programmiertutorial absolviert oder den Bestseller von Al Sweigart, Routineaufgaben mit Python automatisieren, ausgelesen. Was ist der nächste Schritt auf dem Weg zur fähigen, kompetenten Softwareentwicklerin?
Der Weg zum Python Profi ist mehr als eine bloße Sammlung meisterhafter Tipps für das Schreiben von sauberem Code. Es zeigt Ihnen, wie Sie die Kommandozeile bedienen und andere professionelle Tools wie Code-Formatierer, Type Checkers, Linters und Versionskontrolle verwenden können. Al Sweigart führt Sie durch bewährte Praktiken für die Einrichtung Ihrer Entwicklungsumgebung, die Benennung von Variablen und die Verbesserung der Lesbarkeit und geht dann auf Dokumentation, Organisation, Leistungsmessung, objektorientiertes Design und sogar Big-O-Algorithmus-Analyse ein. Die Hinweise und Anleitungen des Buchs werden Ihre Programmierfähigkeiten deutlich verbessern - nicht nur in Python, sondern in jeder Sprache.
Sie werden lernen:

- wie Sie Pythons automatisches Formatierungswerkzeug Black für sauberen Code verwenden

- wie Sie häufige Fehlerquellen erkennen und sie mit Static analyzers aufspüren

- wie Sie die Dateien in Ihren Code-Projekten mit dem Cookiecutter-Template-Tool strukturieren

- erschließen Sie sich funktionale Programmiertechniken wie Lambda- und Funktionen höherer Ordnung

- wie Sie die Geschwindigkeit Ihres Codes mit den in Python integrierten Modulen timeit und cProfi le verbessern können

- wie Sie Ihre Kommentare und Dokumentationsstrings informativ gestalten und wie oft Sie sie schreiben sollten
Natürlich kann kein einziges Buch Sie zu einer professionellen Softwareentwicklerin machen. Aber Der Weg zum Python-Profi wird Sie weiterbringen, wenn Sie lernen, lesbaren Code zu schreiben, der leicht zu debuggen und perfekt pythonisch ist.

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Routineaufgaben mit Python automatisieren: Praktische Programmierlösungen für Einsteiger (German Edition) 05/05/2020

by Al Sweigart, Volkmar Gronau

( 31 )

$36.18

US-Besteseller: Gegen stumpfsinnige Computeraufgaben!

Neuauflage auf Python 3 aktualisiert

Lernen Sie, Python-Programme zu schreiben, die Ihnen automatisch alle möglichen Aufgaben abnehmen

Mit Schritt-für-Schritt-Anleitungen zu jedem Programm

Wenn Sie jemals Stunden damit verbracht haben, Dateien umzubenennen oder Hunderte von Tabelleneinträgen zu aktualisieren, dann wissen Sie, wie stumpfsinnig manche Tätigkeiten sein können. Wie wäre es, den Computer dazu zu bringen, diese Arbeiten zu übernehmen?

In diesem Buch lernen Sie, wie Sie mit Python Aufgaben in Sekundenschnelle erledigen können, die sonst viel Zeit in Anspruch nehmen würden. Programmiererfahrung brauchen Sie dazu nicht: Wenn Sie einmal die Grundlagen gemeistert haben, werden Sie Python-Programme schreiben, die automatisch alle möglichen praktischen Aufgaben für Sie abarbeiten:

- eine oder eine Vielzahl von Dateien nach Texten durchsuchen

- Dateien und Ordner erzeugen, aktualisieren, verschieben und umbenennen

- das Web durchsuchen und Inhalte herunterladen

- Excel-Dateien aktualisieren und formatieren

- PDF-Dateien teilen, zusammenfügen, mit Wasserzeichen versehen und verschlüsseln

- Erinnerungsmails und Textnachrichten verschicken

- Online-Formulare ausfüllen

Schritt-für-Schritt-Anleitungen führen Sie durch jedes Programm und Übungsaufgaben am Ende jedes Kapitels fordern Sie dazu auf, die Programme zu verbessern und Ihre Fähigkeiten auf ähnliche Problemstellungen zu richten.

Verschwenden Sie nicht Ihre Zeit mit Aufgaben, die auch ein gut dressierter Affe erledigen könnte. Bringen Sie Ihren Computer dazu, die langweilige Arbeit zu machen!

"The best part of programming is the triumph of seeing the machine do something useful. (This book) frames all of programming as these small triumphs; it makes the boring fun."
Hilary Mason

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Coding with Minecraft: Build Taller, Farm Faster, Mine Deeper, and Automate the Boring Stuff 29/05/2018

by Al Sweigart

( 85 )

$33.40

A hands-on introduction to coding that teaches you how to program bots to do cool things in the game you love--Minecraft! This book takes the robotic "turtle" method, and extends it to the 3D, interactive world of Minecraft.

You've mined for diamonds, crafted dozens of tools, and built all sorts of structures--but what if you could program robots to do all of that for you in a fraction of the time?

In Coding with Minecraft®, you'll create a virtual robot army with Lua, a programming language used by professional game developers. Step-by-step coding projects will show you how to write programs that automatically dig mines, collect materials, craft items, and build anything that you can imagine. Along the way, you'll explore key computer science concepts like data types, functions, variables, and more.

Learn how to:
- Program robots that make smart decisions with flow control
- Reuse code so that your robots can farm any crop you want, including wheat, sugar cane, and even cacti!
- Program a factory that generates infinite building supplies
- Design an algorithm for creating walls and buildings of any size
- Code yourself a pickaxe-swinging robotic lumberjack!
- Create a robot that digs mine shafts with stairs so you can explore safely

Bonus activities in each chapter will help you take your coding skills to the next level. By the end of the book, you'll understand how powerful coding can be and have plenty of robots at your beck and call.

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