Learn Python the Hard Way

You Will Learn Python!

Zed Shaw has perfected the world's best system for learning Python. Follow it and you will succeed--just like the millions of beginners Zed has taught to date! You bring the discipline, commitment, and persistence; the author supplies everything else.

In Learn Python the Hard Way, Fifth Edition, you'll learn Python by working through 60 brilliantly crafted exercises. Read them. Type their code precisely. (No copying and pasting!) Fix your mistakes. Watch the programs run. As you do, you'll learn how a computer works; what good programs look like; and how to read, write, and think about code.

• Install a complete Python environment
• Organize and write code
• Fix and break code
• Basic mathematics
• Variables
• Strings and text
• Interact with users
• Work with files
• Looping and logic
• Data structures using lists and dictionaries
• Program design
• Object-oriented programming
• Inheritance and composition
• Modules, classes, and objects
• Python packaging
• Automated testing
• Basic data munging
• Basic statistics with NumPy and SciPy
• Data Analysis

It'll be hard at first. But soon, you'll just get it--and that will feel great!

This course will reward you for every minute you put into it. Soon, you'll know one of the world's most powerful, popular programming languages. You'll be a Python programmer.

This book is perfect for

• Total beginners with zero programming experience
• Junior developers who know one or two languages
• Returning professionals who haven't written code in years
• Seasoned professionals looking for a fast, simple, crash course in Python

你將學習Python！

Zed Shaw已經完善了世界上最好的Python學習系統。遵循這個系統，你將成功，就像Zed迄今已教授給數百萬初學者一樣！你需要帶來紀律、承諾和堅持，作者提供其他一切。

在《學習Python的硬道路，第五版》中，你將通過60個精心設計的練習來學習Python。閱讀它們。精確地輸入它們的代碼。（不要複製和粘貼！）修正你的錯誤。觀察程式運行。在這個過程中，你將學習計算機的運作原理；優秀程式的外觀；以及如何閱讀、撰寫和思考代碼。

- 安裝完整的Python環境
- 組織和撰寫代碼
- 修復和破壞代碼
- 基本數學
- 變數
- 字串和文字
- 與使用者互動
- 處理文件
- 迴圈和邏輯
- 使用列表和字典的資料結構
- 程式設計
- 物件導向程式設計
- 繼承和組合
- 模組、類別和物件
- Python封裝
- 自動化測試
- 基本資料整理
- 使用NumPy和SciPy進行基本統計
- 資料分析

起初可能會很困難。但很快，你就會理解它，並感到非常棒！

這門課程將為你投入其中的每一分鐘給予回報。很快，你將掌握世界上最強大、最受歡迎的程式語言之一。你將成為一名Python程式設計師。

這本書非常適合以下人士：

- 完全沒有程式經驗的初學者
- 知道一兩種程式語言的初級開發人員
- 多年未寫程式的復出專業人士
- 尋找快速、簡單、速成Python課程的經驗豐富的專業人士

Zed A. Shaw is the author of the popular books, Learn Python the Hard Way, Learn Ruby the Hard Way, and Learn C the Hard Way. He is also the creator of several open source software projects and has been programming and writing for nearly 30 years. Most of his free time is devoted to the study of painting and art history.

Zed A. Shaw 是知名書籍《學習Python的硬道理》、《學習Ruby的硬道理》和《學習C的硬道理》的作者。他也是幾個開源軟體專案的創建者，並且已經從事程式設計和寫作近30年。他大部分的空閒時間都用來研究繪畫和藝術史。