Automate the Boring Stuff with Python: Practical Programming for Total Beginners

Author：Al Sweigart

Paperback: 500 pages

Publisher: No Starch Press; 2 edition (14 Nov 2019)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 1593279922

ISBN-13: 9781593279929

Product Dimensions: 180 x 235 x 36 (mm)

書籍簡介

如今，人們面臨的大多數任務都可以通過編寫計算機軟件來完成。Python是一種解釋型、面向對象、動態數據類型的高級程序設計語言。通過Python編程，我們能夠解決現實生活中的很多任務。

本書是一本面向實踐的Python編程實用指南。本書的目的，不僅是介紹Python語言的基礎知識，而且還通過項目實踐教會讀者如何應用這些知識和技能。

本書適合任何想要通過Python學習編程的讀者，尤其適合缺乏編程基礎的初學者。通過閲讀本書，讀者將能利用強大的編程語言和工具，並且會體會到Python編程的快樂。

The second edition of this best-selling Python book (100,000 copies sold in print alone) uses Python 3 to teach even the technically uninclined how to write programs that do in minutes what would take hours to do by hand. There is no prior programming experience required and the book is loved by liberal arts majors and geeks alike.

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 this fully revised second edition of the best-selling classic 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. You'll learn the basics Python and explore Python's rich library of modules for performing specific tasks, like scraping data off websites, reading PDF and Word documents, and automating clicking and typing tasks.

The second edition of this international fan favorite includes a brand-new chapter on input validation, as well as tutorials on automating Gmail and Google Sheets, plus tips on automatically updating CSV files. You'll learn how to create programs that effortlessly perform useful 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 email responses and text notifications

  •  Fill out online forms

Step-by-step instructions walk you through each program, and updated practice projects at the end of each chapter challenge you to improve those programs and use your newfound skills to automate similar tasks.

Don't spend your time doing work a well-trained monkey could do. Even if you've never written a line of code, you can make your computer do the grunt work. Learn how in Automate the Boring Stuff with Python, 2nd Edition.

作者簡介

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.