Is automate the boring stuff with Python good for beginners?

I would recommend “automate the boring stuff with Python” because they have interesting stuff after the basic intro like sending email, Web scraping and Image processing, things that makes Python my go-to, because things that would take me a day with other languages would now take me an hour.

Free to read under a CC license .

This is one of the best books available for learning programming and learning Python . The examples given are easy to run, and teach the language well. It is structured to take you step by step through learning Python. If you are new to programming or just new to Python this will be a very useful book.

9.5 hours on-demand video. 95 downloadable resources.