Learn Python 3 the Hard Way: A Very Simple Introduction to the Terrifyingly Beautiful World of Computers and Code (Zed Shaw’s Hard Way Series)

You Will Be taught Python 3!

Zed Shaw has perfected the world’s finest system for studying Python 3. Observe it and you’ll succeed—similar to the hundreds of thousands of freshmen Zed has taught up to now! You deliver the self-discipline, dedication, and persistence; the creator provides all the pieces else.

In Be taught Python 3 the Exhausting Approach, you’ll be taught Python by working by 52 brilliantly crafted workout routines. Learn them. Kind their code exactly. (No copying and pasting!) Repair your errors. Watch the applications run. As you do, you’ll learn the way a pc works; what good applications appear to be; and how you can learn, write, and take into consideration code. Zed then teaches you much more in 5+ hours of video the place he exhibits you how you can break, repair, and debug your code—reside, as he’s doing the workout routines.

Set up a whole Python environmentOrganize and write codeFix and break codeBasic mathematicsVariablesStrings and textInteract with usersWork with filesLooping and logicData constructions utilizing lists and dictionariesProgram designObject-oriented programmingInheritance and compositionModules, courses, and objectsPython packagingAutomated testingBasic sport developmentBasic net growth

It’ll be exhausting at first. However quickly, you’ll simply get it—and that may really feel nice! This course will reward you for each minute you place into it. Quickly, you’ll know one of many world’s strongest, common programming languages. You’ll be a Python programmer.

This Guide Is Excellent For

Whole freshmen with zero programming experienceJunior builders who know one or two languagesReturning professionals who haven’t written code in yearsSeasoned professionals searching for a quick, easy, crash course in Python 3 .

From the Writer

Advantages of Studying “The Exhausting Approach”

No expertise required – be taught by workout routines

The title says it’s the exhausting option to be taught to jot down code, however it’s truly not. It’s solely the “exhausting” means as a result of it makes use of a method known as instruction. Instruction is the place Zed tells you to do a sequence of managed workout routines designed to construct a talent by repetition. This method works very effectively with freshmen who know nothing and want to amass primary abilities earlier than they will perceive extra advanced matters. It’s utilized in all the pieces from martial arts to music to even primary math and studying abilities.

Video display casts

You should have entry to on-line video display casts for each train. These movies display how the code works and, most significantly, how you can break it. They’re the proper place to display many widespread errors by breaking the Python code on function and exhibiting you how you can repair it. Shaw additionally walks by the code utilizing debugging and interrogation methods and strategies. The movies are the place Zed exhibits you how you can “cease staring and ask” the code what’s improper.

The exhausting means is…simpler

This e-book instructs you in Python by slowly constructing and establishing abilities by strategies equivalent to apply and memorization, then making use of them to more and more troublesome issues. By the top of the e-book you’ll have the instruments wanted to start studying extra advanced programming matters. Zed likes to inform those who the e-book provides you your “programming black belt.” What this implies is that you understand the fundamentals effectively sufficient to now begin studying programming.

Writer ‏ : ‎ Addison-Wesley Skilled; 4th version (June 27, 2017)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0134692888
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0134692883
Merchandise Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 kilos
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.9 x 0.8 x 9 inches