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<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;learnbyexample.github.io&#x2F;100-page-python-intro-book-announcement&#x2F;">100 Page Python Intro book announcement</a>
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<span class="post__time">2021-02-10</span>
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<p>Hello!</p>
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<p>I just published my ebook titled &quot;<strong>100 Page Python Intro</strong>&quot;. This book is a short, introductory guide for the Python programming language. This book is well suited:</p>
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<li>As a reference material for Python beginner workshops</li>
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<li>If you have prior experience with another programming language</li>
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<li>If you want a complement resource after reading a Python basics book, watching a video course, etc</li>
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<span id="continue-reading"></span><h2 id="ebook-links">Ebook links<a class="zola-anchor" href="#ebook-links" aria-label="Anchor link for: ebook-links">🔗</a></h2>
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<p><strong>PDF/EPUB</strong> versions are FREE (until 17 Feb, 2021) along with some of my other books. You can get them from Gumroad or Leanpub using the links given below:</p>
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<li><strong>100 Page Python Intro</strong>: <a href="https://gumroad.com/l/100pagepythonintro">https://gumroad.com/l/100pagepythonintro</a> or <a href="https://leanpub.com/100pagepythonintro">https://leanpub.com/100pagepythonintro</a></li>
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<li><strong>Python re(gex)?</strong>: <a href="https://gumroad.com/l/py_regex">https://gumroad.com/l/py_regex</a> or <a href="https://leanpub.com/py_regex">https://leanpub.com/py_regex</a></li>
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<li><strong>Magical one-liners</strong> bundle: <a href="https://gumroad.com/l/oneliners">https://gumroad.com/l/oneliners</a> or <a href="https://leanpub.com/b/oneliners">https://leanpub.com/b/oneliners</a></li>
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<p align="center"><img src="/images/books/python_intro.png" alt="100 Page Python Intro book cover image" /></p>
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<p align="center">Cover art: <a href="https://ko-fi.com/profetessaoscura">Ilsa Olson</a></p>
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<h2 id="web-version">Web version<a class="zola-anchor" href="#web-version" aria-label="Anchor link for: web-version">🔗</a></h2>
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<p>You can also read the book online here: <a href="https://learnbyexample.github.io/100_page_python_intro/introduction.html">https://learnbyexample.github.io/100_page_python_intro/introduction.html</a>.</p>
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<h2 id="github-repo">GitHub repo<a class="zola-anchor" href="#github-repo" aria-label="Anchor link for: github-repo">🔗</a></h2>
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<p>The <a href="https://github.com/learnbyexample/100_page_python_intro">https://github.com/learnbyexample/100_page_python_intro</a> repo has program/example files, markdown source and other details about the book.</p>
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<h2 id="table-of-contents">Table of Contents<a class="zola-anchor" href="#table-of-contents" aria-label="Anchor link for: table-of-contents">🔗</a></h2>
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<li>Preface</li>
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<li>Introduction</li>
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<li>Numeric data types</li>
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<li>Defining functions</li>
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<h2 id="motivation-and-faq">Motivation and FAQ<a class="zola-anchor" href="#motivation-and-faq" aria-label="Anchor link for: motivation-and-faq">🔗</a></h2>
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<p>I've been conducting a few Python introduction workshops for college students and faculty for the past four years (which came to a premature end thanks to the pandemic). These students were already familiar with another programming languages such as <code>C</code>, <code>Java</code>, etc. I used to provide my notes in PDF format as a workshop reference material, further reading resources, etc. After I started writing a book titled <a href="https://learnbyexample.github.io/practice_python_projects/"><strong>Practice Python Projects</strong></a>, I realized I'd be better served by improving my Python knowledge first. What better way to do it than writing a book? And it did teach me a lot of things, some of the highlights being:</p>
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<li>Exploring <a href="https://docs.python.org/3/glossary.html">docs.python: Glossary</a></li>
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<li>You cannot have mutable objects as a <code>set</code> element!</li>
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<li><code>startswith()</code> and <code>endswith()</code> string methods support <code>tuple</code> argument for testing multiple substrings</li>
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<li><a href="https://docs.python.org/3/using/cmdline.html">Command line options</a> like <code>-q</code>, <code>-B</code>, etc</li>
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<p><em>Why is it called <strong>100 Page Python Intro</strong> when it has more than 100 pages?</em></p>
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<p>There are 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1 errors — Leon Bambrick</p>
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<p>The material I was using for my workshops was 56 pages. I had more chapters to add, but I thought it would be a struggle to reach 100 pages, instead of overshooting the goal in the end. The measurement also depends on a few factors. The main content will be less than 100 pages if I reduce the font size from 12 to 11, exclude cover, TOC, Preface, etc.</p>
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<p>Hope you find it useful and fun to learn Python. As always, I'd highly appreciate your feedback. Please do let me know if you spot any error or typo.</p>
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<p>Issue Manager: <a href="https://github.com/learnbyexample/100_page_python_intro/issues">https://github.com/learnbyexample/100_page_python_intro/issues</a></p>
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<p>E-mail: learn by example.net@gmail.com (without the spaces)</p>
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<p>Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/learn_byexample">https://twitter.com/learn_byexample</a></p>
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<p>Happy learning :)</p>
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