Show HN: Practical Python Projects book release (practicalpython.yasoob.me)
I just released the Practical Python Projects book! (https://practicalpython.yasoob.me)
I am happy to announce the first version as a release candidate. I have poured a lot of love into writing this book and would love to hear what you guys think. (A limited 100% off and discount coupons at the end)
This is not a pure beginner book. The book does assume some background Python knowledge. You need to know the basics like methods, functions, classes, and such. If I use something that is not typically covered in beginner Python books, I will explain it before I use it. There are no tests for these projects as they are really small and teach you how to glue different pieces together.
Some projects that we will be making
- A Twilio bot that keeps you updated with the latest match scores from the FIFA World Cup
- A Facebook Messenger bot the shares latest memes, jokes, and shower-thoughts scraped from Reddit
- An automated invoice generator and deploying it using Flask
- Making automated cinema-preshow by downloading and stitching together related movie trailers using moviepy
- Generating automated article summaries and overlaying them on top of images
- Understanding and decoding JPEG images using vanilla Python
- Creating a GUI application using PyQt for downloading online videos
- Implementing a TUI email client that allows reading emails in the terminal
The first 50 people can use the "hn-love" coupon (without the quotation marks) to get 15% off. I am also offering a 30-day no-questions-asked refund policy if you don't enjoy this book and don't learn anything new.
You can buy the book from https://practicalpython.yasoob.me You can get a free sample chapter from here: https://practicalpython.yasoob.me/sample/chapter2.pdf You can learn more about my writing style by reading any of my recent articles over at https://yasoob.me
(For detailed FAQ, you can head over to the book website: https://practicalpython.yasoob.me)
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[ 3.9 ms ] story [ 46.1 ms ] thread100ms isn't much, indeed. A more complicated GUI program will likely render that trivial.
I just released the Practical Python Projects book! (https://practicalpython.yasoob.me) You can get a free sample chapter here: https://practicalpython.yasoob.me/sample/chapter2.pdf.
I am happy to announce the first version as a release candidate. I have poured a lot of love into writing this book and would love to hear what you guys think. (A limited 100% off and discount coupons at the end)
This is not a pure beginner book. The book does assume some background Python knowledge. You need to know the basics like methods, functions, classes, and such. If I use something that is not typically covered in beginner Python books, I will explain it before I use it. There are no tests for these projects as they are really small and teach you how to glue different pieces together.
Some projects that we will be making
- A Twilio bot that keeps you updated with the latest match scores from the FIFA World Cup
- A Facebook Messenger bot the shares latest memes, jokes, and shower-thoughts scraped from Reddit
- An automated invoice generator and deploying it using Flask
- Making automated cinema-preshow by downloading and stitching together related movie trailers using moviepy
- Generating automated article summaries and overlaying them on top of images
- Understanding and decoding JPEG images using vanilla Python
- Creating a GUI application using PyQt for downloading online videos
- Implementing a TUI email client that allows reading emails in the terminal
The first 50 people can use the "hn-love" coupon (without the quotation marks) to get 15% off. I am also offering a 30-day no-questions-asked refund policy if you don't enjoy this book and don't learn anything new.
You can buy the book and see a detailed FAQ at https://practicalpython.yasoob.me. If you want to try before you buy, see the sample chapter at https://practicalpython.yasoob.me/sample/chapter2.pdf, or you can learn more my writing style by reading any of my recent articles over at https://yasoob.me.
We can definitely work something out! You should have gotten the books by now. Take a look at the book and if you would like to get a group discount I can definitely arrange that. Would love to have more kids get their hands on this. :)