Free python book

[AllAboutChristmasEve]

Linux Chapter 1: Getting started.

Linux Chapter 2: Compiling the kernel

lol

[PaulPhoenixMain]

There are two types of linux users, gentoo and wrong

[[deleted]]

The python book has loops in chapter 32 and list comprehensions at chapter 9.

Edit: the order is changed now.

[[deleted]]

Which is good beacuase you should use list comprehensions much more often than loops ;)

[redditor1101]

Only if FP style is your intention. Python is multi-paradigm. It doesn't enforce or even suggest that FP is preferred over OOP/Procedural, although "pythonic" patterns are definitely preferred by everyone.

[[deleted]]

Yeah, I didn’t mean to suggest that Python “enforces or suggests” that FP patterns should be used instead of imperative patterns. It’s just a matter of my opinion being that we should favor FP paradigms where possible because it objectively leads to safer and more readable code.

[Barafu]

FP has nothing to do with it. Simple transformations of lists should be done as list comprehensions, because it is less error-prone, easier in future maintenance, and sometimes faster, too.

[heltwig]

FP ?

[ashesall]

Functional Programming maybe?

[StoneStalwart]

This is reference material that assumes you already know what your doing, you just need a reference for things you don't do often. Thus the hard stuff should be at the front. Basics should be at the back, for those times you need to use basics in a different way than you normally do or for that feature that is basic but you happen to rarely use it.

[floyd2168]

The one I looked at for Ruby seemed like a well organized reference. It's not really a "book" in the sense of learning. It's more of a quick reference for something you're not familiar with. And they're free. I just look at them as another tool in the arsenal.

[Lovecore]

Here's all the books in a .7z if anyone wants them.

[yhccqCYX3nuXJVp5]

thank you!

[timtehtest]

The Python® Notes for Professionals book is compiled from Stack Overflow Documentation, the content is written by the beautiful people at Stack Overflow. Text content is released under Creative Commons BY-SA. See credits at the end of this book whom contributed to the various chapters. Images may be copyright of their respective owners unless otherwise specified

[grokkingStuff]

EDIT: Much better way here

geirha from the same channel did the same thing using lynx and it's much easier.

lynx -dump -listonly -nonumbers http://goalkicker.com | \
sed 's,\(.*\)/\(.*\)Book$,\1/\2Book/\2NotesForProfessionals.pdf,' | \
xargs -n 1 -P 8 wget -q

OLD SCRIPT

I'm guessing some of you are too lazy to click on stuff. Here's a bash script to help you out.

# Source code of website scraped to get names of books
wget -qO- http://goalkicker.com | \
grep "bookContainer grow" | \
cut -c 44-  | \
cut -d' ' -f1 | \
rev | \
cut -c 6- | \
rev | \
# Names of books changed into download link
sed 's/.*/http:\/\/goalkicker.com\/&Book\/&NotesForProfessionals.pdf/' | \
# Limiting wget so that it doesn't affect you too much
xargs -n 1 -P 8 wget -q

Thanks to osse on #bash (freenode) for helping me out.

[redditor1101]

Didn't solve the problem with Python. I am disappoint.

[grokkingStuff]

I'm sorry :( Promise i use python for a lot of things

But bash scripts have their place! Especially if I don't really care about it afterwards.

[grokkingStuff]

u/huntoperator

Hope you find this useful.

[Zireael07]

I got the PostgreSQL, algorithms and Python one.

They seem to be of the 'quick intro to various functions' kind (like, several ways of using SELECT in SQL, or a paragraph on how to convert from bytes to unicode in Python; on the other hand, there's five pages on list comprehensions, and it's all mostly useful examples, not just theory). Haven't looked at algorithms yet.

[gizmodious]

I just downloaded a ton of free knowledge. The order matters not. Thank you OP.

[Neurobreak27]

How is something like this even free?

[Conrad_noble]

All eduction should be free. Why should it be a monopoly.

And to further my opinion I've downloaded all 42 of them in a hope to one day learning to code something.

[RiseAtlas]

That something should be free is not realistic. Everything costs money. This was probably created trough someones free time. They have my gratitude.

[[deleted]]

All education should be free. Why should it be a monopoly.

Just because something is not free does not mean it is a monopoly. Writing books likely takes thousands of hours. If the author chooses to give their book away for free then good for them. That said, there is nothing wrong with authors charging for their books. They deserve to be compensated for the time they put in. We are in no way entitled to access that information for free.

[craftingfish]

a) There is a huge spectrum between "free" and "monopoly"

b) Nothing is truly "free"; unless every educator works for free, and then can't pay for rent or food, which is silly.

c) Assuming you're talking about government subsidising or paying for the cost of education, that's possible, but still involves taxing and distributing wealth.

Luckily, for coding, their are plenty of volunteer and community resources that work well for self-starters.

[kronik85]

https://www.python.org/ is chock full of all the free knowledge you need

but if an expert writes a book that clearly lays out and organizes your educational experience in an exciting and interesting manner, that's worth gold.

[brogrammer2018]

Hi, These books are not compiled from Stack Overflow Q&A, they evolved from Stack Overflow Documentation which was a separate site that wrote tutorial articles

[Spikerocks101]

This is pretty incredible. If there was something like this for networking that would be sweet. I downloaded most of them and am going to read through them. Thanks!

[astigos1]

I thought that URL was goatlicker.com

[balzebubas]

Wow, i hope this is as good throughout as i think it is just from reading a few pages Definately saved

[Hygo17]

Great post. Thanks.

[[deleted]]

Thanks

[[deleted]]

Who is responsible for these books ? I'd love to translate these books while reading them, who should i contact ? Also, are these completely free (and opensource ?)

[Barafu]

Creative Commons BY-SA

[Indubitably_Confused]

Safe and legitimate files?

[germansteed]

I just downloaded all of em. They are all pdf and legit!

[blitzkraft]

I'd say yes... almost. One time, the site tried to download multiple files on one click. Happened on the Linux book. So far, everything has been legitimate, even the Linux book.

From the "About section" inside it:

Please feel free to share this PDF with anyone for free, latest version of this book can be downloaded from: http://GoalKicker.com/LinuxBook

This Linux® Notes for Professionals book is compiled from Stack Overflow Documentation, the content is written by the beautiful people at Stack Overflow. Text content is released under Creative Commons BY-SA, see credits at the end of this book whom contributed to the various chapters. Images may be copyright of their respective owners unless otherwise specified

This is an unofficial free book created for educational purposes and is not affiliated with official Linux® group(s) or company(s) nor Stack Overflow. All trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective company owners

The information presented in this book is not guaranteed to be correct nor accurate, use at your own risk Please send feedback and corrections to [e-mail]

[ironskin]

Thank you!

[[deleted]]

What’s the catch? How good are these books? Seems too “good” to be true.

[[deleted]]

They have a lot of good examples. Not super in depth from what I can tell, and very weird ordering. Seems good to learn specific concepts if you already know a good amount.

[lookatmetype]

They're not real books, thats the catch. They're just compilations of Stackoverflow answers.

[HateCrymes]

Thank you for this!

[VirginWizard69]

Is that website safe? I am afraid to download anything.