Learn More Python 3 the Hard Way: The Next Step for New Python Programmers (Zed Shaw's Hard Way Series)

Not your typical book. This is a great book if you follow the suggestions and read past the first several examples.

Best book to start learning Python.

a+

Don't listen to the negative reviews. I love this book. If you're a beginner or you're just looking for code to copy-pasta, this book isn't for you. Yes, the early projects in the book instruct you to build copies of Unix tools. The projects are helpful and I've learned a lot doing them. The projects later on in the book are focused on data structures and algorithms and there are more code samples in that section. You also build a small ORM in the course of the book. What this book is really about, is teaching the reader a way to approach larger projects in an organized and thoughtful manner, and to track their successes and failures and use that information to improve their process and become a better programmer. If you're competent with Python but you're not sure what the next step is, this book could be helpful to you. It's more about using Python as a tool to investigate your own process, how you think and approach problems, than it is about showing you specific Python techniques. There are a hundred decent books that show you specific information, there are zero other books like this one (that I've found). Exactly what I needed.

This book unfortunately spends most of the pages discussing about Linux! If I want a Linux book, I can always buy a Linux book, which I have in plenty. Skip this book!

That's not a book about Python, that's more about project development. I was not surprised to find similar template books for Ruby or C, "Learn Ruby/C the Hard Way" by the same author. What about the specific "Pythonic way" every advanced Python programmer should learn about? Nothing here. It is extremely verbose, considering the whole book has just a few lines of actual code. It's also very pretentious, and you may get tired of that style "with an attitude": we're not all in high-school, and this guy is not our teacher. It's also basically for Linux, and if you're a Mac or Windows guy, not very useful. Most Python books are OS-independent. A full chapter is dedicated to writing SIMPLE SQL database statements. I agree any programmer should know something about this, but did you buy the book to waste your time on such simple use cases as those presented here? Finally, this looks more like a book of homework assignments, but for some pretty large projects (many of them). Do you really have time to practice on such large projects? Or are they really necessary, with such a huge waste of time, just to become more advanced in Python? I don't think so. There are other much better books for advanced Python and general software development. This is not one of them.

Skip this one, it's just too odd in it's attempt in what it is trying to teach you to accomplish with Python. It has no Python code in it and just references a website where the code is available. The book is basically a weird guide encouraging you to write unix tools in Python but has NO CODE. It's just bizarre.

Ich habe mir das Buch gekauft, nachdem ich den ersten Band ("Learn Python3 the hard way") vom selben Autor durchgearbeitet hatte. Der Stil in beiden Büchern ist derselbe: es geht stets sehr direkt und ohne Blabla zur Sache, die Informationsdichte ist sehr hoch, und es stimmt, was der Autor ankündigt: "it'ill be hard at first". Es gibt neben vielen Beispielen auch Übungen in unterschiedlichem Schwierigkeitsgrad. Aus dem Netz können Lösungen, Ergänzungsmaterial u.a. heruntergeladen werden. Das Englisch ist gut verständlich. Das Buch ist fordernd, aber die Mühen zahlen sich aus.

Arrived by the due date and items were were in excellent condition

Mostly a self help guide, with very little code. Almost useless. Good for some stuff and as a reference, but it is literally mostly spam.

Goed boek als vervolg op "Learn Python 3 the hard way".

This, and the companion volume 'Learn Python 3 the hard way', are quite dreadful. They are shallow and the author's style is annoying from beginning to end.