Learn Python Programming - Second Edition: The no-nonsense, beginner's guide to programming, data science, and web development with Python 3.7 2nd Edition

I bought this to go along with an online class I was taking. The book is well written and set up and has provided the perfect compliment. The author uses a lot of examples and encourages looking up documentation for extra practice

I am new to programming. This book makes it easier for me to get started down the right path.

This is a reasonable book for intermediate python learners. As others have said, if Python is your first language and you are a beginner (< 1year coding), I would skip this book. This book is reasonable for covering the intermediate topics after basic data structures (list, dictionary, set, tuple, array, tuple unpacking, list comprehension) and basic control flow, function and class. I picked up this books for more in-depth help with collections, maps, filter, enumerate, generator, decorator, debugging, testing, profiling, web scraping, etc. Some topics are reasonable for this, but some topics are too sparse and there's not enough there. Book has many pages but the formatting is off so many pages only have 1 -3 lines of text. So the content look bigger than it is. Still, there are not that many reasonably good book for the intermediate user, so I gave it 4 stars.Book has an issue with code text becoming too small or faint (on print version), sometimes making it difficult to read. I got the kindle version. If your screen resolution is high, body text will be a good size but the code text will be tiny. You can adjust zoom or downsize monitor resolution. Print version, can't fix the faint code text, but you can download the whole code files from URL provided by the author (front first pages). More importantly, you can view the code online on a screen as you type them to your Python terminal. Hope that helps.

Good book

I wanted to add at my other programming languages ( c++,Visual Basic, Delphi) another new language. I am very satisfied with python.

Setting up a IDE environment and learning Python, I use to use Perl so I hope this book works to re-fire my memory.

A good book to pick up Python quickly, if you're already an experienced programmer in another language. If you're new to programming and this is your first programming class, I would recommend another book that explains the basics in greater detail, otherwise you will struggle with this book. I found this book easy to follow because I have programmed in other languages and was a programmer for 7 years in my career.

An excellent well written manual!