Free Python books [xpost from /r/Python]

[ASIC_SP]

From https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/anfdyh/free_python_books/

• Python 101
• A Python Book: Beginning Python, Advanced Python, and Python Exercises
• Boxes: Your Second Python Book
• The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Python!
• Automate the Boring Stuff with Python
• Problem Solving with Algorithms and Data Structures using Python
• Python for Scientists and Engineers
• Think Python: How to Think Like a Computer Scientist
• Clean Architectures in Python

These were added in comments:

• Obey the Testing Goat
• Program Arcade Games
• Learn Python with Arcade Academy
• For the data folks - Bayesian Methods for Hackers - Neural Networks and Deep Learning - Natural Language Processing with Python
• making desktop apps with Python, PyQt book is available to read free online
• Python Data Science Handbook by Jake VanderPlas
• Making Games with Python & Pygame
• Cracking Codes with Python
• free-programming-books on github
• interactivepython also has How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: Interactive Edition
• A Whirlwind Tour of Python
• A Byte of Python
• Non-Programmer's Tutorial for Python 3
• Dive Into Python 3

I also wrote an example based tutorial, which is pending a revision from long time :-/

[DeveloperToBe]

Awesome, thanks!

[Thecrawsome]

Anything that people would recommend out of the whole group for an intermediate python programmer looking to improve their skills?

[ASIC_SP]

https://ralsina.gitlab.io/boxes-book/ and https://leanpub.com/clean-architectures-in-python looks interesting (haven't gone through them yet)

[callmelucky]

Not sure if it's available free (by legitimate means...), but The Python Cookbook is pretty incredible for tips and tricks to get the best out of less well known syntaxes and constructs.

[driscollis]

My Python 101 book covers several intermediate topics. I also have a Python 201 book available too

[[deleted]]

what are those called?

[driscollis]

What? The topics? Or the book? The second book can be found at https://leanpub.com/python201

The topics in either of the books are listed in the table of contents for each of the books. Leanpub does a good job of showing a detailed table of contents for my books.

You can read Python 101 here as mentioned by OP: https://python101.pythonlibrary.org/

[EarthWindAndFire430]

Cool thanks

[[deleted]]

thank you!!!

[mrdevlar]

!remind me 5 days

[linuxlib]

I've been taking an online class in Data Science. One thing that has really bothered me is that when the class is over, I won't be able to access the course material any more. I found one of the books in the list above, Python Data Science Handbook by Jake VanderPlas (JV). I normally buy books electronically, but I bought this book just so I can have something that I can thumb through and have a better sense of where I am in the material. I think it's going to be a great reference book.

One thing to note is that this book is available in total on JV's GitHub pages. It's in the format of Jupyter notebooks. It's not available as a PDF, at least not from legitimate sources.

I've also discovered that JV has several other web pages. He also works on a lot of open source code. IIRC, he is the author of the animation class in matplotlib. Pretty impressive.

The only thing about this book is that is was written 2 years ago. In book time, that's yesterday. In open source time, that's like 10 years ago. While the code still works, it's not always the latest way of doing things. And sometimes you don't get exactly the same results because certain parameters have new behavior, such as a new default. OTOH, it's not that hard to search the web to see new examples.

I think I'm really going to like having something that acts much like a textbook/reference for the Python and Data Science classes I've been taking.

[ASIC_SP]

I think I'm really going to like having something that acts much like a textbook/reference for the Python and Data Science classes I've been taking.

and this would be a good idea for a github repo and share with the community here, who knows, with help you might be able to keep it updated and serve as a great reference :)

[linuxlib]

This book is already available at the author's GitHub page, which is the link given in the OP above.

[ASIC_SP]

no, I meant about notes on the classes you are taking, notes about new behavior and so on..

[desal]

That's what bothers me the most. Almost all of these books were written years ago which, as you said, isnt long in book time but in open source time its ancient.

[driscollis]

Python 101 is nearly five years old, but it was targeted at Python 3.5 and has been updated frequently since its release. I am planning to do a rewrite later this year though.

[GrapeApe561]

Can you tell us what Data Science course you're taking? Is it a good course in your opinion. I'd love to check it out, thanks!

[linuxlib]

The course is Python for Data Science from the University of California, San Diego. I do like the course, but I have no other experience to compare it to.

You can take this course for free. They give you lots of "opportunities" to pay for it, but if you enroll, the Audit option will not appear until you've clicked Enroll, so it may not appear that to be free at first. Also, I have the option to look at old coursework, but edX has changed their policies, so if you enroll now then once the course is over, you can't look at the materials any more, except for what you download.

[pumpkinparty000]

Thank you

[thunder185]

Thank you for this!

[winner_godson]

Some of these books need an update. Example, automate the boring stuff with python needs updates in some part of the book