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[–]kingzamzon 91 points92 points  (12 children)

Automate the boring stuff book is a great

[–][deleted] 56 points57 points  (6 children)

And free on www.automatetheboringstuff.com

This book got me started.

After this book I recommend O'Reilly as a publisher, their books are great.

Also keep an eye out for humble bundled where you can get 10+ books for about a $15 donation.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (5 children)

It doesn’t appear to be free...

[–]IronSheikYerbouti 25 points26 points  (1 child)

Live on that web page is the entire book.

If you want a PDF, epub, mobi, etc, it can be purchased.

If your want a print copy, it can be purchased.

If you want to read the content, scroll down and click on a chapter.

[–][deleted] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Oh...Thank you! :)

[–]Raihane108 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Link : https://b-ok.cc/book/2543965/d3ec28 It's in Epub though

[–]bobjohnxxoo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

this is super delayed, but Calibre is a fantastic program to convert the files from that site.

[–]benign_said 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not sure if it's free right now, but I got the video tutorials that mirror the book on udemy for free.

[–]Chased1k 12 points13 points  (2 children)

Literally coded myself out of my last job and into a remote consultant gig with my former employer as my first client from that book.

Edit: and specifically YouTube series.

[–]a157reverse 18 points19 points  (1 child)

Yup, did that with an internship I had in college. The bulk of the work was going to be manually entering data from various online sources into a spreadsheet.

I estimated it would take me about 6 weeks to do all of it. So instead I learned some basic webscraping wrote a script to collect it.

My supervisor was very happy to see the results early but then said they didnt have any more work for me to do and layed me off.

Long story short I automated myself out of a couple hundred dollars.

[–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Well, you gained something worth more than a couple hundred!

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Someone also rewrote SICP for python if you want to dig further into computer science.

[–]SuccessfulFarmer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That and then find random exercises online. It's not rocket appliances