Dan Bader Books

"With Python Tricks: The Book you'll discover Python's best practices and the power of beautiful & Pythonic code with simple examples and a step-by-step narrative."--Back cover

The first half of this book is a quick yet thorough overview of all the Python fundamentals. You do not need any prior experience with programming to get started and we'll teach you everything you need to know, step-by-step. The second half focuses on solving interesting, real-world problems in a practical manner using Python. Once you have the fundamentals down you'll improve quickly by following along with our hands-on coding exercises and projects. We've taken great care laying out each page in the book with beautiful typography, syntax highlighting for code examples, and instructional screenshots so you can process and memorize the information effectively