100 Page Python Intro

About

This book is a short, introductory guide for the Python programming language. This book is well suited:

• As a reference material for Python beginner workshops
• If you have prior experience with another programming language
• If you want a complement resource after reading a Python basics book, watching a video course, etc

There are several exercises provided throughout the book, which will help test your understanding of Python syntax and logical skills.

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Prerequisites

You should be already familiar with basic programming concepts. If you are new to programming, check out my comprehensive curated list on Python to get started.

You are also expected to get comfortable with reading manuals, searching online, visiting external links provided for further reading, tinkering with the illustrated examples, asking for help when you are stuck and so on. In other words, be proactive and curious instead of just consuming the content passively.

Testimonials

It's very thorough, written with care, and presented in a way that makes sense. Even as an intermediate Python programmer, I found use in this book. — feedback by Andrew Healey on an early draft mentioned in this Hacker News thread

Sample chapters

For a preview of the book, see sample chapters on GitHub.

GitHub repo

Visit https://github.com/learnbyexample/100_page_python_intro for markdown source, program files and other details related to the book.

Interactive exercises

I made an interactive TUI app for some of the exercises from this book.

Chapters

1. Preface
2. Introduction
3. Numeric data types
4. Strings and user input
5. Defining functions
6. Control structures
7. Importing and creating modules
8. Installing modules and Virtual environments
9. Exception handling
10. Debugging
11. Testing
12. Tuple and Sequence operations
13. List
14. Mutability
15. Dict
16. Set
17. Text processing
18. Comprehensions and Generator expressions
19. Dealing with files
20. Executing external commands
21. Command line arguments
    

Feedback and Errata

I would highly appreciate it if you'd let me know how you felt about this ebook. It could be anything from a simple thank you, Gumroad rating, pointing out a typo, mistakes in code snippets, which aspects of the book worked for you (or didn't!) and so on. Reader feedback is essential and especially so for self-published authors.

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