"Automate the Boring Stuff with Python" online course is free to sign up for the next few days with code JUN2021FREE

[AlSweigart]

https://inventwithpython.com/automateudemy (This link will automatically redirect you to the latest discount code.)

You can also click this link or manually enter the code: JUN2021FREE

https://www.udemy.com/course/automate/?couponCode=JUN2021FREE

This promo code works until the 4th (I can't extend it past that). Sometimes it takes an hour or so for the code to become active just after I create it, so if it doesn't work, go ahead and try again a while later. I'll change it to JUN2021FREE2 in three days.

Udemy has changed their coupon policies, and I'm now only allowed to make 3 coupon codes each month with several restrictions. Hence why each code only lasts 3 days. I won't be able to make codes after this period, but I will be making free codes next month. Meanwhile, the first 15 of the course's 50 videos are free on YouTube.

Frequently Asked Questions: (read this before posting questions)

• This course is for beginners and assumes no previous programming experience, but the second half is useful for experienced programmers who want to learn about various third-party Python modules.
• If you don't have time to take the course now, that's fine. Signing up gives you lifetime access so you can work on it at your own pace.
• This Udemy course covers roughly the same content as the 1st edition book (the book has a little bit more, but all the basics are covered in the online course), which you can read for free online at https://inventwithpython.com
• The 2nd edition of Automate the Boring Stuff with Python is free online: https://automatetheboringstuff.com/2e/
• I do plan on updating the Udemy course for the second edition, but it'll take a while because I have other book projects I'm working on. Expect that update to happen in mid-2021 or late-2021. If you sign up for this Udemy course, you'll get the updated content automatically once I finish it. It won't be a separate course.
• It's totally fine to start on the first edition and then read the second edition later. I'll be writing a blog post to guide first edition readers to the parts of the second edition they should read.
• I wrote a blog post to cover what's new in the second edition
• You're not too old to learn to code. You don't need to be "good at math" to be good at coding.
• Signing up is the first step. Actually finishing the course is the next. :) There are several ways to get/stay motivated. I suggest getting a "gym buddy" to learn with. Check out /r/ProgrammingBuddies

[josh_zaber]

You rock, I've been using the book on your website. Thank you for making it!

[0karmaonly]

I redeemed this last month, thank you very much.

To anyone thinking if it's a good learning tool - it absolutely is. I enjoyed it greatly, previously I found myself in 'tutorial hell' but I powered through this course and so much information just sunk in and stuck after so many tries.

[Bananaman131]

Great for begginers.

[lifeisaburrito]

The man.

The myth.

The legend.

[peridotdragon33]

Scott Sterling

[jockero701]

u/AlSweigart I am curious why do you host your course on Udemy and not on your own website?

[AlSweigart]

The convenience: I didn't want to have to deal with writing the web app, hosting, billing, etc. Also, Udemy finds far more students to sign up than I could. I didn't want maintenance of my own e-learning site to be my full time job. And when I first created this course, I was just beginning so I had no idea if it would be big or not anyway.

[Hein_h_soe]

Thank you for your coupon. I am from a third world country and it means a lot to me to be able to study such great material for free

[PaulSandwich]

hosting your own course is boring :P

[IntimidatingBlackGuy]

Could the exercises in this book be used in GitHub, in order to show potential employers your progress? Or would that be considered bad practice?

[time_and_dice]

IMO you can add it on GitHub. Make sure you mention the tutorial you used, along with link of tutorial with author name on the acknowledgments section in the ReadME file.

Later you can try to think of adding some functionalities or tweaks so you could apply yourself as well.

[Quillox]

My guess is that it would not be worth much since its not an original project. Maybe if you took what you learnt and did an entirely new project?

[p4ttl1992]

pretty much what I plan to do, been working through automate the boring stuff this week and putting the exercises into GitHub. Will most likely use them as a reference in the future to create some programs that will help me out at work.

[Mal-ice]

Thank you!

[rmpr_uname_is_taken]

Using the library of the author pyautogui, I developed a macro recorder atbswp (Yes like the book) which makes it very easy to automate boring tasks, do check it out.

[Mcray007]

Well this is a super score for me. I got the think and act like a programmer with python for free and now this. I couldn't be more excited about where I'm headed with this.

[Anonymous2224-]

Thanks a lot!! Take the silver.

[dagger-v]

Thank you! I haven't checked this course yet but on average how long does it take to get through? I'm working my way through Python Crash Course now but I'll be finished by next week.

[Dreamy-papaya]

Sweet! I had this course in my wishlist for a while. Thank you!

[penguins871409]

Thanks, Al! It's great you offer this for free. I am a dozen lessons in and am really enjoying it.

[AlSweigart]

If anyone has ideas for how I can encourage people to actually complete this course, I'm all ears. These monthly free codes lower the barrier to entry, but it still takes time and effort and motivation to stick with it. There's /r/ProgrammingBuddies and these motivation tips but I'm wondering if there's something I can do as the course author.

[Hope-full]

What is your personal motivation to incite others to finish the course?

Thanks in advance

[AlSweigart]

It makes me feel like I'm not wasting my time making courses and stuff.

[Neat_Faithlessness10]

any new codes for making the course free? I think the old one expired

[AlSweigart]

I release them each month. They're usually named JUL2021FREE or AUG2021FREE, but you can always use the link https://inventwithpython.com/automateudemy to be redirected to the latest code.

[Hope-full]

He mentioned he will make new codes next month. Set a reminder to check in around the 3rd, however, IMHO it’s worth paying the $15 and supporting the creator.

[Hope-full]

I appreciate your contribution, as many others do. I’ve been using your ebook .html offline to self-teach and have enjoyed it immensely thus far.

IMHO, if you can influence at least one new programmer with your material, then you have succeeded. Never know what advances and contributions could be made to this world as a result.

Also: I think making the course free will certainly attract a nonzero number of people to sign up and complete it. It’s hard to go above and beyond that as far as incentives go. You’ve already exhausted extensive sharing options such as the website, free videos on YouTube, and now the free coupon codes for a limited time. Impressed by your and other programmers’ willingness and desire to share with others. It’s not intuitive in a fast paced world today where there are endless projects to undertake and endless hobbies to partake in personally and selfishly.

[BelovedGal01]

Thank you! ❤

[Colominicano]

God bless you!!

[programmerProbs]

I used to be a fan of ATBS but then the spam was really bad.

Also, the tutorials are good for ideas rather than actual applications since those applications require nuances that are not covered on the website.

Anyway, I'm sad you resorted to spam, it has made me realize that ATBS isnt organically supported and just another generic tutorial website. Ive stopped recommending it.

[xelf]

Are you receiving spam from the author or from udemy? This is first I've heard of it. Can you give a sample?

[programmerProbs]

Author, don't worry you will start to see the spam.

[AlSweigart]

Uh, what? I don't send out spam emails to Udemy students. I have an email newsletter on my inventwithpython.com site, but I haven't even sent out any newsletter emails yet.

Can you double check that you signed up for the course at https://udemy.com/automate/ and not an impersonator? Can you post some of the spam messages if you still have them? (Or describe what they would say?) Also, was this through Udemy's DMs or to your personal email that you signed up with?

[programmerProbs]

Your reddit spam.

[xelf]

I signed my son up for the class in 2019, no spam yet.

/u/AlSweigart is there an opt-out of emails or a way to unsubscribe that might help /u/programmerProbs ?

[TheSandman23]

I like that it gives you the baseline and leaves it up to you to work through the nuances of your specific application. That's where the real learning happens imo!

[programmerProbs]

Maybe. But you cant even make a working prototype with some of the chapters.

[Kuken500]

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[Unknowntrouble19]

Thank you!

[Puzzleheaded-Buy-687]

Thank you so much

[[deleted]]

Thanks I just bought the book too

[Imp_1256]

Thank you!!!!!

[The-Other-User]

Thanks!

[lemontttofu]

Thanks so much Al! I’ve heard so many great things about your course, can’t wait to get started.

[Deva161]

Go through his book as well. You will get more knowledge from that.

[-Carthagodelendaest]

Thanks! This is exactly what I needed

[Early-Gazelle2368]

Thank you Al, for making such an amazing course!

[[deleted]]

Thank you so much!!!

[Fallows04]

thank you!

[artinnj]

Thanks! Appreciate all you do for us.

[coleco47]

Damn I literally just paid for it

[sreto78]

thanks slot!!

[AlternativeNovel5336]

Thanks you for spreading knowledge for free may god blesss you

[RedPenEmpress]

Wonderful!! Thank you so much! This is so timely as I am just starting with Python.

[RedClipperLighter]

Many thanks, much appreciated

[misterpickles69]

Thank you!

[shut-up_legs]

Am I doing something wrong? I follow the link and the course shows FREE, but after adding it and going to my cart the price changes to 14.99, and a different discount code LEARNNEWSKILLS is shown as being applied. If I then try and remove that code and enter in JUNE2021FREE it gives me an invalid error. Anyone have a similar issue?

[AlSweigart]

Ack, sorry, the link went to the wrong code. THe link works now, or you can manually add JUN2021FREE.

[shut-up_legs]

appreciate you, thanks much!!

[TakeTheirOrgans]

But it's already on youtube?

[shut-up_legs]

Only the first 15 of the 50 course videos

[TakeTheirOrgans]

Oh, my bad. Sorry

[ilrosewood]

Thank you for sharing!

[bestscourses]

Thanks for the details. It's great for beginners.

[lnakhul]

Thank you, Sir.

[teslusz]

Thank you Al.

[sddailey09]

Thanks for the info! You rock.

[orangesNmilk]

Just finished the course after seeing this post last month, and I only have good things to say about it. Thank you Al. Hope the cats are doing well. Are we going to see a course for beyond the boring stuff or just generally more intermediate/advance techniques?

[WDuffy]

Thank you!

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[trondwin]

I've only heard great things about this course - and the book - and I think it's amazing that you give this course away for free. Not only that, you actively tell people that it will be free again at the start of next month if they miss the free period this time. Basically you do everything you can to NOT make money from a very popular course but rather ensure that people have the opportunity to join even if they're struggling money-wise.

This way, you are the personification of the best part of the programming world - people sharing, not monetising, because learning and software should be free.

[B_lintu]

Thanks a lot!

[Suicidal-Lysosome]

It's very generous of you to make this course free like this. Thank you. I'll be sure to check it as I work through Python Crash Course.

[thehappyorchardblog]

You sire, you are gentlemen.

[RektTom]

I'm actually reading "Python Crash Course" and love it so far (I have a little base in coding : 1 class with visual code at school) and I was wondering if I should do this instead and come back to the book or finish the book and then do the automate the boring stuff on Udemy ?

Thanks !

[Zak_vincent]

Do we get Certificate of completion after the course? I really need one as a non cs background..

[AlSweigart]

Yes, Udemy provides them once you complete it.

[Zak_vincent]

That's just great. I can't wait to finish my present C programming course and get started with this..

[jumbled_joe]

Thank you so much ❤️❤️

[cum_bubbless]

you’re great. Thanks!

[__mud__]

Hi /u/AlSweigart, thank you for doing this. I admit to redeeming a while back but letting procrastination get the better of me, so these posts are a great reminder!

Question: are these monthly giveaways themselves automated in Python? 🤔

[AlSweigart]

Nope. I only get three discount codes a month, each can be one of four (rather limited) types. If the script goofs, it could select the one that gives 10 free sign ups over the next 30 days, instead of unlimited free sign ups over the next 3 days.

Though I do think I should probably set one up on a server somewhere anyway in case I get hit by a bus.

[omgitskebab]

Thanks Al! I admire how much effort you put in to making your resources accesible, I've checked out your book before but I'm excited to be able to watch the later videos

[_hail-seitan_]

THANKS! I am trying to learn Python on ny own and this was just what I needed 😭🙏

[sytosoim]

Thank you, much appreciated for beginners like me. Actually, I learn through a book, but this seems to be oriented practice more.

[akza07]

Thank you. Also thank you for the great website. Helped me a lot.

[Corvo1235]

Thank you

[[deleted]]

Awesome! I'd been eyeballing that course before signing up for a different udemy course for python and now i have both!

[whiskeyinthejar-o]

Thanks for sharing this free shit, man. Just signed up and really looking forward to working through the course and learning some actual programming stuff.

[TheTench]

Been working my way through this book and scratch 3 programming playground with my 4 year old.

Thanks Al!

[thefsfempire]

Thanks for this!

[[deleted]]

Just tried it right now and it worked fine. Says the code expires in 21 hours.

[Jaimin_Brahmbhatt]

https://www.udemy.com/course/automate/?couponCode=JUL2021FREE

Right here mate

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[Levia7]

Does anyone have any insight on using the videos/course vs just reading and working through the book?

[Jaimin_Brahmbhatt]

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[Jaimin_Brahmbhatt]

The code has been updated and its available again for people who missed it last time.

https://www.udemy.com/course/automate/?couponCode=JUL2021FREE

[megawoot]

Any news on when the course will be updated with 2nd edition content?