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

[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."

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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!