Automate the Boring Stuff with Python: Practical Programming for Total Beginners - Softcover

Sweigart, Albert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1593275994 ISBN 13: 9781593275990

Publisher: No Starch Press, 2015

Synopsis

If you ve ever spent hours renaming files or updating hundreds of spreadsheet cells, you know how tedious tasks like these can be. But what if you could have your computer do them for you? In Automate the Boring Stuff with Python, you ll learn how to use Python to write programs that do in minutes what would take you hours to do by hand no prior programming experience required. Once you ve mastered the basics of programming, you ll create Python programs that effortlessly perform useful and impressive feats of automation to: Search for text in a file or across multiple files Create, update, move, and rename files and folders Search the Web and download online content Update and format data in Excel spreadsheets of any size Split, merge, watermark, and encrypt PDFs Send reminder emails and text notifications Fill out online forms Step-by-step instructions walk you through each program, and practice projects at the end of each chapter challenge you to improve those programs and u

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About the Author

Al Sweigart is a professional software developer who teaches programming to kids and mentors adult students. His programming tutorials can be found at inventwithpython.com/blog. He has written three popular self-published books that teach Python to beginners, including Invent Your Own Computer Games with Python, Making Games with Python & Pygame, and Hacking Secret Ciphers with Python.

From the Back Cover

If you've ever spent hours renaming files or updating hundreds of spreadsheet cells, you know how tedious tasks like these can be. But what if you could have your computer do them for you?

In Automate the Boring Stuff with Python, you'll learn how to use Python to write programs that do in minutes what would take you hours to do by hand-no prior programming experience required. Once you've mastered the basics of programming, you'll create Python programs that effortlessly perform useful and impressive feats of automation to:
-Search for text in a file or across multiple files
-Create, update, move, and rename files and folders
-Search the Web and download online content
-Update and format data in Excel spreadsheets of any size
-Split, merge, watermark, and encrypt PDFs
-Send reminder emails and text notifications
-Fill out online forms

Step-by-step instructions walk you through each program, and practice projects at the end of each chapter challenge you to improve those programs and use your newfound skills to automate similar tasks.

Don't spend your time doing work a well-trained monkey could do. Even if you've never written a line of code, you can make your computer do the grunt work. Learn how in Automate the Boring Stuff with Python.

Note: The programs in this book are written to run on Python 3.

Edition details

• Publisher: No Starch Press
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1593275994
• ISBN 13: 9781593275990
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 504