Murach's Python Programming

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I went through two programming classes and didn’t learn well despite applying myself - but then, picked this up, and everything was clear. I’m very impressed and inspired to read the whole thing. Made a big difference in my life, thank you!!

I used this book for a class I was taking and it’s pretty impressive with the examples and such available in the box, being new in the field anything resourceful will be useful.

It is a step by step book and explaines everything very well. I had to buy it for a class. Found it to be very useful.

This claims to be able to help you write your first program by the end of chapter 2, I got this for a college class so we’ll see.

Originally the professor I a college recommend this book to me.

This kindle edition is made of scanned images the physical book. It is not OCR'ed, is not searchable, and is blurry. The whole book looks like the attached image.This book is the required reading for the class I am taking, otherwise I would ask for a refund.Note, this cannot be loaded on a Kindle eReader, but to be fair, the website said as much before I purchased it.The content of the book is fine. I'm learning the material, but I'm not happy about reading blurry text.

I have previously used IronPython to work together with C# in a solution but I did not really pick up the many aspects of Python thoroughly back then. This book helped me to quickly accomplish just that. The real benefit of this book is to provide a well planned learning path from the very basic to intermediate topics. The dual-page text and code pairing approach is quite unique in Murach's books that makes learning easy. The contents are written in very easy to understand and unambiguous way to make the reading easy and pleasant. I appreciate the Terms List and Summary sections near the end of each chapter which serve as good reference for self-review. Some of the exercises may be too simple but it seems to be may be reasonable considering this is an introductory learning book. Overall I think this is a good resource for anyone who wants to pick up Python.

This is amazing! Thank you very much, all about my choices were perfect.

OK, so I bought this book. It seemed interesting and also it has great layout the Murach's style. They present info in a nice way where it's easy to pickup and learn the info. I bought MANY Murach's books, my first one was ASP.NET Core MVC the 1st edition and then I bought second and then many others after that. This was the manual where you get the VERY minimal basics I find. To the publisher and the authors, guys take a look at what you did with PHP and MySQL and then take something like Python Crash Course, my first ever book for Python and realize how much more information is covered in the Python Crash Course vs your Python manual. And the reason that I am bringing PHP and MySQL, it's just an example of how much more you have in there vs this book. Also, The initial information is good though and I like how your book is structured, that's why I always buy from you but on this one I feel like you can do more. Also would be nice for you to include Web API, Web Development, and I know you have GUI chapter but I feel like you need to expand on it more and also maybe add a few chapters on Kiwi. Also, what about the Python's own API? You should showcase it a bit more than what you have. Take a look at Python 3: The Comprehensive Guide. I have that book too. I know you split data analytics into a separate book but still an into chapter or two on how to create some charts and graphs and use them either in web or desktop, mobile GUI would be great! I think beyond basic information you've provided in this edition of the book I feel like it is not enough when i start with a new language. That's why solid 3 out of 4 stars. My background is in .NET and C#, developed for over 20 years now was MS certified in that tech too but lately .NET and C# does not feel like my cup of tea so I was looking for a new language and came across Python. I got all that DB experience behind me in CRMs and ERPs and it is easily transferable to Python which looks to be more streamlined than what .NET and C# is these days. I like that I don't have to worry about language constructs anymore when I'm developing in Python. Stuff like semantics matters a LOT especially for large applications where multiple people are working. Python seems to be more stable in that area than C# these days and I like it! I can do everything in Python that I did in C# without too much extra hustle; so a better manual for the language would always be a plus! Would like to see, improved, 2nd edition of this manual! Oh and lastly, add some good info on unit testing in your manual!

Brilliant Book, really impressed, I often buy Murach's books; imho they are the best way to start programming.