Even if you've never written a line of code, you can make your computer do the grunt work. 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.ĭon't spend your time doing work a well-trained monkey could do.

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Update and format data in Excel spreadsheets of any size.

Search the Web and download online content.

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Once you've mastered the basics of programming, you'll create Python programs that effortlessly perform useful and impressive feats of automation to:

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. But what if you could have your computer do them for you? If you've ever spent hours renaming files or updating hundreds of spreadsheet cells, you know how tedious tasks like these can be. Wil Wheaton, Practical Programming for Total Beginners 'I'm having a lot of fun breaking things and then putting them back together, and just remembering the joy of turning a set of instructions into something useful and fun, like I did when I was a kid.' Hilary Mason, Data Scientist and Founder of Fast Forward Labs Automate the Boring Stuff with Python frames all of programming as these small triumphs it makes the boring fun.' 'The best part of programming is the triumph of seeing the machine do something useful.

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