Head First Python: A Learner's Guide to the Fundamentals of Python Programming, A Brain-Friendly Guide

by Paul Barry

What will you learn from this book? Want to learn the Python language without slogging your way through how-to manuals? With Head First Python , you'll quickly grasp Python's fundamentals by working with built-in data structures and functions. You'll build your very own web app, which—once it's ready for prime time—runs in the cloud. You'll learn how to wrangle data with Python, scrape data from the web, feed data to pandas, and interact with databases. This third edition is a complete learning experience that will help you become a bona fide Python programmer in no time. What's so special about this book? If you've read a Head First book, you know what to a visually rich format designed for the way your brain works. If you haven't, you're in for a treat. With this book, you'll learn Python through a multisensory experience that engages your mind—rather than a text-heavy approach that puts you to sleep.

Genres: Programming, Coding

663 pages, Paperback

Published September 19, 2023

Reviews

[Jarrick Williams · Rating 1 out of 5]

I understand this book was created to "help" introduce beginners to Python, but this is a horrible way to do so. From unnecessary jokes, horrible examples, confusing layout and information, everything about this book is just... bad. This book tries to "teach" through jokes or just nonsense. I'm reading this to learn the basics of Python, not multiple pages worth of dialogue of the authors failed attempt of a script between an interviewer and the LITERAL language of Python. Just nonsense. I highly recommend you NOT to read this if you want to learn Python as there are numerous better resources out there. Read this for fun, or as a joke. It's upsetting that this is somehow linked to multiple colleges and universities as actual course material. Shame.

[Riteshsonawala · Rating 5 out of 5]

After a long time i read a programming book cover to cover. I really think head first series is best way to kick off any programming language. Of course it does not cover everything and rightly so.
Separately I think this is a good book to start python if you come with programming background. Taking a problem and building it while learning language concepts is a great idea ! thumbs up and off to fluent python.

[Pete Aven · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great intro to Python and its ecosystem. I really appreciated the practical, hands-on approach in vscode with jupyter notebooks. Gets you familiar with python and working with data quickly.