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Get a comprehensive, in-depth introduction to the core Python language with this hands-on book. Based on author Mark Lutz’s popular training course, this updated fifth edition will help you quickly write efficient, high-quality code with Python. It’s an ideal way to begin, whether you’re new to programming or a professional developer versed in other languages.
Complete with quizzes, exercises, and helpful illustrations, this easy-to-follow, self-paced tutorial gets you started with both Python 2.7 and 3.3— the latest releases in the 3.X and 2.X lines—plus all other releases in common use today. You’ll also learn some advanced language features that recently have become more common in Python code.
- Explore Python’s major built-in object types such as numbers, lists, and dictionaries
- Create and process objects with Python statements, and learn Python’s general syntax model
- Use functions to avoid code redundancy and package code for reuse
- Organize statements, functions, and other tools into larger components with modules
- Dive into classes Python’s object-oriented programming tool for structuring code
- Write large programs with Python’s exception-handling model and development tools
- Learn advanced Python tools, including decorators, descriptors, metaclasses, and Unicode processing
Download Learning Python 5th Edition Mark Lutz 9781449355739 Books
"I think there might be an excellent 300-page book somewhere in these 1500 pages. It's just hard to find. The author's style is very chatty, with lots of digressions. I found myself constantly annoyed that it took so many words to get to the point of even a simple explanation. After about 100 pages, I gave up. The online help that comes with the Python kit is a little too brief and cryptic for a good tutorial, but this book goes way too far in the opposite direction."
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Learning Python 5th Edition Mark Lutz 9781449355739 Books Reviews
- I know a 1600 page book seems almost crazy but, before you start looking elsewhere (as I did) for something shorter, let me try to explain why this 1600 page book may actually end up saving you a lot of time and making you a better Python programmer in the end.
First of all, I've read many of the other well reviewed, up-to-date, Python books (yes, all of them were shorter), and being new to Python, I ended up spending most of my time searching online trying to fill in the gaps that the other authors failed to fill in. With this book you don't need to reference anything else because the author does a great job of answering every question. You can tell he's dedicated his life to teaching Python and knows what problems his readers will run into.
While this books is long, it doesn't feel long. It's not just page after page of code samples. Each concept comes with a few code samples and is followed up by very well-written, clear explanations so it's actually a fairly quick read (for a 1600 page book). Does he repeat himself as other reviewers have noted? Yes, but it feels like when he does it's purposeful.
Even though you often hear that Python is easy to learn, it's an incredibly deep language that requires time and effort. I believe that by having read this book that I'm starting out far ahead of other new Python programmers, I appreciate the language even more and I'm very comfortable even with Python's advanced topics. - The Definitive Python Bible. However, as a retired software engineer I can honestly say that this book is NOT for novices. It's really four books in one. Its also 1500+ pages long ! Its a basic-tutorial book, its an "under-the-hood" book, its an Object Oriented Programming Book and an
"advanced concepts" book. All in one. My biggest gripe is that you need to read about the first 300+ pages in order to have enough information to be able to write your first "real" program. This is primarily due to the fact that many introductory chapters also contain some advanced topics and show the differences between Python 2.x and 3.x. - OK. I'm a true beginner; seriously. I'm 35 yo English teacher who can easily create a WordPress site, or a Moodle course. Other than that, I know nothing of programming. HTML and CSS is easy. But all I know is copy-pasting code from CSS generators. Sure something has stick about CSS and HTML, but nothing about programming. I was terrified to even try.
Until I met Python.
It was love at first sight the moment I saw its syntax. It was like reading English. I felt like New in the Matrix. So I started watching tutorials on YouTube, taking courses on Udemy, and Lynda.com, but none of them provided insightful information about the ins and outs of Python; you know, like 'the devil's in the details' kind of stuff. (Sure there are some programmers who create video tutorials on YouTube but they cover only small parts of Python programming in depth and many of them left me wanting more.
That's until I decided to google 'Best Python books'.
I found many videos that were talking about Python Crash Course, and Python the Hard Way being better than this book, but just the fact that this is a 1600 page book left me curious.
I gave it a try, and oh boy was I right.
This book doesn't let you go to the next page without explaining in details what a particular concept means. And if it doesn't clarify it right on the spot, it lets you know that it will be covered on another chapter (sometimes I skipped the chapter to see if it was right -it was).
I'm only on page 98 and can tell you that I have learned more by reading this book than what I've learned by watching video tutorials.
Don't get me wrong. Video tutorials are fun, and many people learn from them. For instance, I've learned how to create an authentication webapp using Django. No book required.
If you are a true beginner, buy this book. Don't be afraid about being 'old' and not having studied Computer Science. This book teaches you a lot of concept in a fun, user-friendly way.
I'm planning on buying the other books that follow this one. (I wish the author be writing a 6th edition of this book, since we're moving to Python 3.7 now. Then, I'll buy two Django books. And then I'll start digging into tutorials to create my portfolio; the Django way. - This book is overwritten and exhausting to read. It's not an intro to programming, but rather a bloated intro to the language's objects and syntax. At least a third of the text is spent referring to later chapters, reminding me about earlier chapters, explaining differences between Python versions, and explaining why the current topic is beyond the scope of the book, but still being discussed anyway. It's verbosely written in an ironically un-Python-like way.
- Very dense reading. Covers all details, which is what I wanted. But this book is entirely inefficient. If I had $1 for each time something is touched upon and then told it will be explained later, I could pay for all of my books. After several chapters, you wouldn't still be able to make a simple program if you didn't already know the language. Once every 50 pages there will be some great detail that should be mentioned, which is why I bought it. But the rest is the book apologizing for being too dense, but actually explaining to you why it is dense, because of prior editions' feedback based on non-programmers not understanding the difference between the command line and a text file. It's a great book, but easily could be 160 pages instead of 1,600. It feels like 16,000.
- I think there might be an excellent 300-page book somewhere in these 1500 pages. It's just hard to find. The author's style is very chatty, with lots of digressions. I found myself constantly annoyed that it took so many words to get to the point of even a simple explanation. After about 100 pages, I gave up. The online help that comes with the Python kit is a little too brief and cryptic for a good tutorial, but this book goes way too far in the opposite direction.
