100 Page Python Intro

This book is a short, introductory guide for the Python programming language. This book is well suited:

  • As a reference material for Python beginner workshops
  • If you have prior experience with another programming language
  • If you want a complement resource after reading a Python basics book, watching a video course, etc

The book also includes exercises to test your understanding.

See Version_changes.md to keep track of changes made to the book.

E-book

You can purchase the book using these links:

For a preview of the book, see sample chapters

The book can also be viewed as a single markdown file in this repo. See my blogpost on generating pdf/epub from markdown using pandoc if you are interested in the ebook creation process.

For web version of the book, visit https://learnbyexample.github.io/100_page_python_intro/

Feedback

Open an issue if you spot any typo/errors.

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I’d also highly appreciate your feedback about the book.

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Table of Contents

  1. Preface
  2. Introduction
  3. Numeric data types
  4. Strings and user input
  5. Defining functions
  6. Control structures
  7. Importing and creating modules
  8. Installing modules and Virtual environments
  9. Exception handling
  10. Debugging
  11. Testing
  12. Tuple and Sequence operations
  13. List
  14. Mutability
  15. Dict
  16. Set
  17. Text processing
  18. Comprehensions and Generator expressions
  19. Dealing with files
  20. Executing external commands
  21. Command line arguments

Acknowledgements

License

The book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License

The code snippets are licensed under MIT, see LICENSE file

GitHub

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