Automate the Boring Stuff with Python: Practical Programming for Total Beginners
In Automate the Boring Stuff with Python, you will learn how to use Python to write programs that do in minutes what would take you hours to do by hand—no prior programming experience required.
Publication date: 01 May 2015
ISBN-10: 1593275994
ISBN-13: 9781593275990
Paperback: 504 pages
Views: 54,402
Type: Book
Publisher: No Starch Press
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported
Post time: 19 Apr 2016 12:00:00
Automate the Boring Stuff with Python: Practical Programming for Total Beginners
In Automate the Boring Stuff with Python, you will learn how to use Python to write programs that do in minutes what would take you hours to do by hand—no prior programming experience required.
Publication date: 01 May 2015
ISBN-10: 1593275994
ISBN-13: 9781593275990
Paperback: 504 pages
Views: 54,402
Document Type: Book
Publisher: No Starch Press
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported
Post time: 19 Apr 2016 12:00:00
Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format
Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material
The licensor cannot revoke these freedoms as long as you follow the license terms.
Click here to read the full license.
If you've ever spent hours renaming files or updating hundreds of spreadsheet cells, you know how tedious tasks like these can be. But what if you could have your computer do them for you?
In Automate the Boring Stuff with Python, you'll learn how to use Python to write programs that do in minutes what would take you hours to do by hand—no prior programming experience required. Once you've mastered the basics of programming, you'll create Python programs that effortlessly perform useful and impressive feats of automation to:
- Search for text in a file or across multiple files
- Create, update, move, and rename files and folders
- Search the Web and download online content
- Update and format data in Excel spreadsheets of any size
- Split, merge, watermark, and encrypt PDFs
- Send reminder emails and text notifications
- Fill out online forms
Tweet
About The Author(s)
Al Sweigart is a software developer and teaches programming to kids and adults. He has written several Python books for beginners, including Hacking Secret Ciphers with Python, Invent Your Own Computer Games with Python, and Making Games with Python & Pygame.
Al Sweigart is a software developer and teaches programming to kids and adults. He has written several Python books for beginners, including Hacking Secret Ciphers with Python, Invent Your Own Computer Games with Python, and Making Games with Python & Pygame.