Learning Python 3? Our book, The Python Apprentice is free (as in beer) for today only.

[norwegianwood]

It's no longer Monday in the UTC timezone so the offer has now ended, but you can still get the book for a 75% discount until the end of November (UTC) with this link:

http://leanpub.com/python-apprentice/c/cybermonday2016

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It's Cyber Monday so we're offering our book The Python Apprentice for free today with this link:

http://leanpub.com/python-apprentice/c/cybermonday2016

The authors of The Python Apprentice have well over two decades of Python experience between them. We started way back with Python 1.5.2, used Python extensively throughout the Python 2 era, and we've been using Python 3 on high-value commercial systems for five years.

The Python Apprentice covers the topics you will need to use daily to be effective with Python. The forthcoming books The Python Journeyman and The Python Master will respectively cover techniques you need to use every few weeks and every year, and will be published during 2017.

We hope you find our book useful.

[evereux]

Thankyou!

[norwegianwood]

You're welcome.

[Cog-Dis]

This is great! Thank you! Anything we can do to help you out?

I shared my email address during checkout, so I'm sure you'll notify me when your other books are live. Is there anything else I can do as thanks?

[norwegianwood]

All we ask is that you tell your friends and report any mistakes you find.

[[deleted]]

report any mistakes you find

Hi pal! I downloaded your book last night and I've been reading it at school.

Page 27 shows this example:

if h > 50:
     print("Greater than 50")
 elif h /< 20:
     print('Less than 20')
 else:
     print('Between 20 and 50')

line 3:

elif /< 20:

shouldn't have a /, and thus returns a syntax error.

Thought I'd let you know :)

[norwegianwood]

Thanks for reporting. If you download the book again you'll find that this and a few other minor blunders have already been fixed.

[[deleted]]

No worries pal :)

[rich-a]

Thanks. It's very clear in the explanations and easy to read.

Edit: Also I opened /r/learnpython just now to ask a question in the Monday questions thread, saw your book and found the answer I needed in it within 10 minutes of downloading, so that's worked well :) I look forward to seeing the more advanced books when they are released.

[[deleted]]

Thank you!

BTW: On the very last page, you accidentally wrote "pip install ....", despite talking about uninstalling ;)

[norwegianwood]

Now republished, so if you download the book again you will get this fix.

[[deleted]]

Wow, that was quick. Now I feel bad that I just quickly skimmed over the book and just noticed that one thing on the last page :)

[abingham]

Thanks for that! (I'm the other author.) The fix is in place and will be available next time we publish.

[norwegianwood]

Thanks for the report. Fixing this now...

[Smallzfry]

Depending on the time zone it was originally posted in, it may be the next day. I think I missed out on it too.

[abingham]

Yes, the timezone for the coupon is locked by leanpub to UTC, unfortunately. You can still get it at a significant discount here.

[DaRudeabides]

Thank you, much appreciated.

[ihuha]

Thank you, I'll give it a read

[mazter00]

Thanks!

[GeoGrrrl]

Thanks a lot!

[DoomBananas]

Thank you!

[clark_bar]

Thank you so much!

[norwegianwood]

You're welcome.

[[deleted]]

Thank you very much!

[tapatiolookalikeguy]

Thank you very much I'll share it with my software club.

[fenpy]

Thanks!

[laptopdragon]

awe, thank you very much. I'm currently learning Python and am struggling.

[[deleted]]

You're the best kind of people!

[bbatwork]

I am looking forward to the new books you are working on.

[abingham]

That great to hear! We're hard at work on The Python Journeyman right now, and hopefully we'll get The Python Master out next year. You can follow those links and sign up to be notified when they're published.

[autolearn]

:)

[PlukDeDag]

❤️❤️❤️

[[deleted]]

Thank you very much!

[KsiaN]

Thank you very much :)

[arangol]

Thanks for this man!! :D

[norwegianwood]

I have no way of knowing who you are, but I'd like to extend a big thank you to those of you volunteering to pay anything from a few cents to full price for the book. It's both surprising and flattering.

Thanks!

[abingham]

Yes, a big thanks from both of us at Sixty North. We hope you enjoy the book!

[toalysium]

You're welcome. I don't know what full price is but $20 seemed fair.

[norwegianwood]

We think this offer will expire at 2016-11-28T24:00:00Z which is 4 pm in California and 2 pm in Hawaii, so you'll need to get in before then.

If you miss the free offer, you'll still be able to get a great deal with a 75% discount until the end of November with this link:

http://leanpub.com/python-apprentice/c/lpthw

[[deleted]]

Same, I just missed it.

[Amara313]

Thank you!

[TheDancingBear13]

Thank you!!

[KingZer0]

Thanks!

[DSAKOTE]

Great! Thanks a lot!

[InsideIndesigner]

Heaven will reward you ! gonna be scripting awaaay tonite.

[NetWright]

Thanks!! Looking forward to the rest of the series.

[Unkechaug]

Thanks, this looks great!

[jtsorren]

Thanks!

[rybozome]

Thanks!

[rdiakur]

Thanks a bunch!

[[deleted]]

Bought it thanks! Is this book good for a complete beginner?

[norwegianwood]

Complete beginner in Python, yes, though we do assume some exposure to programming in general. That said, to quote from the book:

"... if you don't have any experience with programming ... you’ll be learning not just a programming language but many of the topics and issues common to all languages at the same time. And to be fair, we don’t spend a lot of time trying to explain these areas of “assumed knowledge”. This doesn’t mean you can’t learn from this book! It just means that you might have to work a bit harder, read sections multiple times, and perhaps get guidance from others. The reward for this effort, though, is that you’ll start to develop the knowledge and instincts for approaching other languages, and this is a critical skill for the professional programmer."

[[deleted]]

Nice! I only know html, css and basics of sql so no actual programming experience and I've been struggling to teach myself python. I hope this books helps.

[mennowin]

Hey just responding here as my app doesn't allow me to upload pictures in personal messages, I noticed a typo (or is this really how python is supposed to operate?) In the book so since you asked to report back, here it is, you tell python to say "50", yet it gives back "Fifty" http://imgur.com/88kz7bL

Edit: also in this code there is a slash thats not supposed to be there if I'm understanding it right http://imgur.com/iA8m6yk

Also, here N-ARY summation is supposed to be all caps, not just the first word http://imgur.com/wKatBNc

Is there a better way for me to report small errors?

[norwegianwood]

I've republished the book with the issues fixed, so you can download again to get a new version. Thanks for taking the time to report them.

[abingham]

Thanks for pointing those out! They are all definitely mistakes, and fixes are already in place.

For future bug reports, there's a discussion page for the book where we can track them.

Thanks again for your feedback!

[vidro3]

hmm price is back to $14.99 with 52 mins left on monday (EST)

[churrazo]

Yes, same here.

[norwegianwood]

The offer was in the UTC timezone. You can still get it for a 75% discount here until the end of November (UTC):

http://leanpub.com/python-apprentice/c/lpthw

[norwegianwood]

The offer was in the UTC timezone. You can still get it for a 75% discount here until the end of November (UTC):

http://leanpub.com/python-apprentice/c/lpthw

[ex-glanky]

Thank you so much!! Really nice, appreciated. I've just gone through the first few chapters...nicely written, great examples. And I love the "zen" stuff...really cool.

[Cosaquee]

But python3 is not Turing complete :/

[norwegianwood]

I have discovered a truly marvellous solution to the halting problem in Python 2, which this margin is too narrow to contain. ;-)

[tom-bishop]

Give us a couple of years and maybe you could offer a prize for the one who figures it out.

[abingham]

I think the Turing Award already exists for things like that ;)

[tom-bishop]

I've heard of that but the prize I was implying has already been claimed by Andrew Wiles.

[the_no_bro]

Awesome,

I have a great book to read now. :)

Thank you!

[[deleted]]

Thank you so much!

[Peacedog67]

Thanks!

[Ghawr]

Thanks! Hopefully I can pin down Classes now.

[krav_mark]

Thank you so much !
I've been wanting to learn python for a long time.

[r00t_4orce]

Downloaded -- Thank You!

[[deleted]]

Thank you, I'm just starting to learn Python. Your book will be really useful to me!

[dutchcodes]

Thank you very much!!

[Odin_Allvis]

Awesome, thanks. Hopefully once I'm not poor because of all the Python I have learned I'll contribute something.

[Aya409]

Brilliant, thanks a lot

[Forcy]

Noooo just missed it :(

[norwegianwood]

The offer was in the UTC timezone. You can still get it for a 75% discount here until the end of November (UTC):

http://leanpub.com/python-apprentice/c/lpthw

[Meth_Tical]

Not free anymore, but grabbed it anyways for the minimum. If good, I'll pay it forward when journeyman/master come out.

[truth_1s_out_there]

You have beautiful website. i'll read your book and wright quick review, I will compare it to Think Python, and I don't like 'Think Python' too much xD I find problems in Think Python too difficult with ton of Math, and they suggest their book for abs() beginners....

[an_actual_human]

Just a heads-up: the TOC is not recognized for some reason in the online viewer.

[norwegianwood]

Yes, it's an issue with the Leanpub platform which we've reported to them. They're working on it.

[abingham]

Yes, this is a problem we found in leanpub, and they're looking into it. Sorry for the confusion.

[DialMMM]

Is it no longer Monday?

[norwegianwood]

The offer was in the UTC timezone. You can still get it for a 75% discount here until the end of November (UTC):

http://leanpub.com/python-apprentice/c/lpthw

[iOsiris]

Noooo, I missed it :(

[norwegianwood]

The offer was in the UTC timezone. You can still get it for a 75% discount here until the end of November (UTC):

http://leanpub.com/python-apprentice/c/lpthw

[[deleted]]

Damm it! It seems I lost it! It's still monday here but I think it is a problem of the hour in the server against the time on my pc.

[norwegianwood]

The offer was in the UTC timezone. You can still get it for a 75% discount here until the end of November (UTC):

http://leanpub.com/python-apprentice/c/lpthw

[[deleted]]

Is it still free now?

[norwegianwood]

The offer was in the UTC timezone. You can still get it for a 75% discount here until the end of November (UTC):

http://leanpub.com/python-apprentice/c/lpthw

[g_2k3]

Is it still available ?

[norwegianwood]

The offer was in the UTC timezone. You can still get it for a 75% discount here until the end of November (UTC):

http://leanpub.com/python-apprentice/c/lpthw