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)

书籍简介

如今，人们面临的大多数任务都可以通过编写计算机软件来完成。Python是一种解释型、面向对象、动态数据类型的高级程序设计语言。通过Python编程，我们能够解决现实生活中的很多任务。

本书是一本面向实践的Python编程实用指南。本书的目的，不仅是介绍Python语言的基础知识，而且还通过项目实践教会读者如何应用这些知识和技能。

本书适合任何想要通过Python学习编程的读者，尤其适合缺乏编程基础的初学者。通过阅读本书，读者将能利用强大的编程语言和工具，并且会体会到Python编程的快乐。

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.

作者简介

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.