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Automate the Boring Stuff with Python, 2nd Edition : Practical Programming for Total Beginners - SWEIGART, AL
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Automate the Boring Stuff with Python, 2nd Edition

Practical Programming for Total Beginners

By: SWEIGART, AL

Paperback | 12 November 2019

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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.


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!
Industry Reviews
Praise for the first edition of Automate the Boring Stuff with Python:

"The best part of programming is the triumph of seeing the machine do something useful. Automate the Boring Stuff with Python frames all of programming as these small triumphs; it makes the boring fun."
--Hilary Mason, Founder of Fast Forward Labs and Data Scientist in Residence at Accel

"Do you need Automate the Boring Stuff with Python? Yes, if you want to enhance your workflow by using automation, this is an excellent place to start. Highly recommended."
--Network World

"Valuable to have on your shelf...an extremely useful book."
--Kids, Code, and Computer Science Magazine

"Automate the Boring Stuff with Python is perfect for anyone who has menial tasks they don't want to spend hours doing."
--GeekMom

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