Excellent book for beginners. This book offers a clear, concise explanation of all things python 3. The examples are extremely well written and error free. I highly recommend this book. I wish the authors would write a equivalent style of book for Micropython.

This book is a very easy-to-read introduction to Python programming. It teaches the basic language syntax and illustrates its use on several practical examples including PDF files, web pages, and SQL databases. I highly recommend it to anyone interested in learning to program.

I've been following RealPython on the web for several months and I loved the way they break difficult concepts into easily understandable parts. So when I got news that they have a new book out - I had to have it. And it does not disappoint - the book follows the same philosophy. It does not cover more advanced concepts - but this material will make your foundations strong enough to tackle any advanced material.

The book is a tome - but what you may lose in portability, you will gain from the easily readable big text. Plus you will get the satisfaction of covering more pages in one go.

I look forward to the next book that will expand on these topics - great job Team.

If you’re very new with little to no experience with Python (like me) this is the book you want! The Authors did a great job with this! Thank you 🙏

I have used several learn python resources over the years and I can say with confidence that this is the best one I've ever seen. Unlike many other resources, this book finds the balance of enough, but no too much information. I particularly appreciate the clear writing and error explanations. Many books touch on errors in the early chapters but don't tell you much about them. I'm currently using this book to teach my 11 year old daughter to code in python and she has had several ah-ha moments already.

Another thing I'd like to rave about is the clear code examples. Many code books show weird variable names like "spam" and "foo". While I understand that calling a variable spam is a nod to the history of python... ie, like Monty, but it doesn't make for very clear teaching. This book uses clear and understandable code examples which goes a long way to understanding how meta-concepts like variables work. Thank you!

This book contains an amazing amount of information and will let you get up to speed with python quickly.

Highly recommend this book!

Python Basics is a realistic introduction to Python. I have read through the early PDF manuscripts and I am excited now to see this book in print form for sale. (Print may be old fashioned, but when you are trying to learn a new computer language, it is extremely useful to have a paper book open beside you, and use your screens for coding, for terminal view, for quick lookups, and so on. )

Dan Bader is one of the top Python educators in the industry. The other authors are all experienced Python practitioners. They know what beginners need to know and at what point in their Python development they need to know it. Unlike many 'Learn Python in Day' or 'Learn Python by xxx' books, this one is realistic. The smart but average first time programmer will achieve a good understanding of the language through this book.

This book covers very basic Python in a slow-paced manner, which may appeal to an absolute newcomer to the language. Anyone with prior programming experience in another language might well find that frustrating. Many commonly used features of the language are not even mentioned, and I think a beginner who worked through this book would find it difficult to understand what was going on in a lot of quite basic everyday Python code. The inexplicable lack of an index makes it impossible to use the book as a reference.

I've been a supporter of Real Python, and particularly of Dan Bader, for some time. Python Tricks is still an excellent book. This one is pretty disappointing, although I realize I'm not really in the target audience. I do wonder how many of the many 5 star reviewers are the sort of Python beginners that this book is aimed at?

i just downloaded the sample and did read and read and read about how good is python at page 22 when the actually book still didn't start i just stopped.

Overall, I regret buying this book. I have never seen a programming (or any book) without an index...what kind of moron writes a book like that? It makes it EXTREMELY frustrating to use, borderline un-usable.

It's easy to read style is good but I find that it severely lacks detail, so is not really appropriate as a textbook to learn from. Foer example, the chapter on classes is extremely brief and I was expecting to learn more from it that something I could almost get on a Wikipedia page.

Overall very frustrating and difficult to use, primarily due to the lack of depth and lack of an INDEX!!

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Ce livre ne se perd pas dans les détails en ce concentrent sur l'essentiel. Vous pouvez télécharger les exemples et les exercices. La page web de l'auteur offre beaucoup de matériel supplémentaire.

Excelente books for beginners and intermediate programmers. Cool content! Maybe too easy for experiment pythonistas.

Nonostante avessi già comprato la versione digitale, ho acquistato anche quella cartacea per avere sempre sottomano quella che considero una guida irrinunciabile per chi, da solo, sta imparando a sviluppare programmi in python. Confrontando questo con altri testi per principianti, si evince chiaramente la completezza degli argomenti trattati da chi "mangia" python tutti i giorni ed ha una vasta esperienza didattica nel settore