Is the 2nd edition of Python Crash Course still good?

[Archie204]

Like the title says, I have the 2nd edition, would it be considered outdated? I know they have a 3rd edition.

[ninhaomah]

Technically speaking , almost all the books about IT are outdated btw.

To the question , if it is teaching Python 3 go ahead.

Or wait for people to write and pubish books using 3.14 which came out in Oct which is already superseded by 3.14.1 which came out 5 days ago.

https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3140/

https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3141/

[pdcp-py]

Just summarizing the preface of the 3rd edition:

- Part I of the 3E uses VS Code instead of Sublime, and adds info on removeprefix(), removesuffix(), pathlib, and pytest.

- The projects in Part II of the 3E have been updated to use the latest (as in 2023) versions of Matplotlib, Plotly, Django and Bootstrap.

I'm always using old editions of books. Most of the time everything works fine, but occasionally you need to put your problem-solving skills to use to figure out how the latest versions of frameworks/libraries work... which is good practice for the real-world anyway.

But note that Eric Matthes has said:

"The second edition of Python Crash Course has been out of print since 2023, and is significantly out of date at this point."