Description: 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 Stuf Book and Mortar Record Store Automate the Boring Stuff with Python, 2nd Edition: Practical Programming for Total Beginners -- Al Sweigart 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! Author: Al Sweigart Publisher: No Starch Press Published: 11/12/2019 Pages: 592 Binding Type: Paperback Weight: 2.40lbs Size: 9.20h x 6.70w x 1.50d ISBN: 9781593279929 About the Author Al Sweigart is a professional software developer who teaches programming to kids and adults. Sweigart has written several bestselling programming books for beginners, including Automate the Boring Stuff with Python, Invent Your Own Computer Games with Python, Cracking Codes with Python, and Coding with Minecraft (all from No Starch Press).
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Genre 1: Books,Subjects,Computers & Technology,Computer Science
Label: No Starch Press
Artist: Sweigart, Al
Album: Automate the Boring Stuff with Python, 2nd Edition: Practical Pro
Number of Pages: 592 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Automate the Boring Stuff with Python, 2nd Edition : Practical Programming for Total Beginners
Publisher: No Starch Press, Incorporated
Subject: Computer Science, Programming / Open Source, General, Programming Languages / Python
Publication Year: 2019
Item Height: 1.5 in
Item Weight: 32.2 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Mathematics, Computers
Author: Al Sweigart
Item Length: 9.2 in
Item Width: 7 in
Format: Trade Paperback
