Automate the Boring Stuff with Python
Practical Programming, for Total Beginners
by Al Sweigart
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The second edition of this bestselling Python book (100,000 copies sold in print alone) uses Python 3 to teach even the technically uninclined how to write programs that do in minutes what would take hours to do by hand. There is no prior Programming, experience required and the book is loved by liberal arts majors and geeks alike.If you've ever s...
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