3 Great Books for Learning Python - Beginner to Proficiency

i have three books that i want to share with you they are relatively inexpensive and they will take you from a beginner at python a novice not knowing anything about it at all to a sort of intermediate python programmer that really understands the foundations and can work on your own projects they are relatively inexpensive especially compared to a lot of the other courses out there and well you know if you like books they're ideal and they're very well respected books and they have good reviews so let's take a look at them now so here are the three books this is them and i'm going to take you through one by one the first book and this is a book for absolute beginners in python and it's probably no surprise it's python crash course this is really one of the best introductory books on python that you will find i mean it depends a little on what you're looking for if you want more sort of computer science there are other books that i would recommend but if you're just starting from scratch and you want to get going in python this is an excellent book why do i like it i like it because it's a nice mix of teaching you the basics the fundamentals of python and then giving you experience on working with projects that's the way the book's laid out teaches you about lists about dictionaries about strings it gives you the fundamentals that you need to know to be able then to work on the projects and there are some interesting projects one of the projects is creating a small game the other is a data visualization project and the third and final project is a web app and once you finish going through this book and you must go through it all go through all the chapters go through all the code snippets until you really understand it and work through the projects once you get to the end of it you will have a good beginner knowledge of python if you want to dig a bit deeper then i would recommend this book so this is a python reference now i've reviewed this on the channel before fairly recently this is by david beasley who is a real python expert you learn by doing and that's why i think today's sponsor brilliant is a great choice for anybody that wants to learn programming brilliant is an interactive online learning platform that focuses on teaching stem topics interactively and it's that interactivity that really helps you to learn every topic that brilliant covers is followed by an interactive puzzle that you have to solve before moving on the puzzles are designed to ensure that solving them really enhances your understanding of the topic brilliant covers an enormous range of different subjects like computer science and maths and physics and you can learn a huge amount just using it for 10 minutes a day that tends to be how i use it if there's a topic i'm feeling a bit rusty on or something i haven't covered before i can go onto the brilliant app and get learning straight away it's so much more engaging and fun solving interactive puzzles than just reading about topics there's a link in the description you can start for free and the first 200 people to sign up will get 20 off brilliant annual premium subscription and this digs a little deeper into a lot of the topics that this book will cover so if you want to understand things at a slightly deeper level as you work through the other book then you can use this as a reference so these two together work quite well this gives you a nice broad introduction to the foundations that you need to know this one goes a little deeper and explains really well the sort of concept behind what you're doing okay but one of the questions i get asked a lot is okay i finished an introductory book or an introductory course on python but what do i do now i'm kind of stuck i don't know enough to work on my own project and sort of take my programming further that way i'm not enrolled in a class i don't have classmates or teachers that can help me because i'm learning on my own so what do i do and in that case you need to work through your own projects and there are various different ways of doing that and there are a lot of good resources online and available in books to do that one of my favorites is this one it's in practical python projects and i also have a review of this so there's a review of these two books in the description i do have a review of python crash course but it was some time ago and i think it was a different edition but i will leave links to the full reviews and summaries of these books in the description but this will take the knowledge that you've gleaned from working through these two books or working through this and using this as a reference um and it will enable you to build things with that knowledge that you have and work on projects and so taken together the python crash course python distilled and then this will really get you to a point where you can feel confident to work on your own projects and incidentally this book will last you you know all throughout your python career start with this use this as a reference and then work through the projects in here by the time you finished i guarantee you'll have a really good understanding of python

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Published: Tue Jul 26 2022