Automate the Boring Stuff with Python - Workbook

This workbook transforms Al Sweigart’s best-selling guide from a reading experience into a coding experience. Following Automate the Boring Stuff with Python - 3rd Edition chapter by chapter, this workbook will help you turn concepts into muscle memory through carefully designed exercises, projects, and real Python scripts. Note: this is a workbook to accompany Automate the Boring Stuff with Python, which is not included. Every concept from Automate is reinforced through carefully sequenced questions, exercises, and projects that help you think like a programmer and prove to yourself that you really get it. At the end of each chapter, you’ll tackle mini projects that bring everything together. Whether you’re renaming files, scraping websites, converting text to speech, modifying spreadsheets, or sending emails, you’ll build scripts that do real work. Fun projects like image generators and word games are in the mix too, not just boring stuff. Every question and project come with a solution at the back of the book, so you’re never stuck. Inside, you’ll find:

* Fill-in-the-blank and short-answer questions that reinforce key concepts

* Targeted exercises to build fluency with variables, loops, functions, regular expressions, and more

* Real Python scripts to run, tweak, and debug

* Projects that automate common tasks like organizing files, backing up data, and scheduling programs

* Full working code for every project so you can check your work and learn by example

With over 500,000 copies sold worldwide, Automate the Boring Stuff with Python has become the go-to guide for learning Python. This workbook gives you the structure, feedback, and smart reinforcement to go from reading code to writing it with confidence. Author Bio Al Sweigart is a software developer, fellow of the Python Software Foundation, and author of several popular programming books including Automate the Boring Stuff with Python, The Big Book of Small Python Projects, Beyond the Basic Stuff with Python, Coding with Minecraft, and The Recursive Book of Recursion (all from No Starch Press). Table of contents Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: Python Basics Chapter 2: if-else and Flow Control Chapter 3: Loops Chapter 4: Functions Chapter 5: Debugging Chapter 6: Lists Chapter 7: Dictionaries and Structuring Data Chapter 8: Strings and Text Editing Chapter 9: Text Pattern Matching With Regular Expressions Chapter 10: Reading and Writing Files Chapter 11: Organizing Files Chapter 12: Designing and Deploying Command Line Programs Chapter 13: Web Scraping Chapter 14: Working with Excel Spreadsheets Chapter 15: Working with Google Sheets Chapter 16: SQLite Databases Chapter 17: PDF and Word Documents Chapter 18: CSV, JSON, and XML Files Chapter 19: Keeping Time, Scheduling Tasks, and Launching Programs Chapter 20: Sending Email, Texts, and Push Notifications Chapter 21: Making Graphs and Manipulating Images Chapter 22: Recognizing Text in Images Chapter 22: Controlling Keyboard and Mouse Chapter 24: Text-To-Speech and Speech Recognition Engines Answers Resources

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