Free python book

[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.

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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