Resources for learning Python in 2020

Earlier this week, I learned that I'll be working less on unmock-js and more our latest open-source namesake, Meeshkan. The main difference? Meeshkan is written in Python... which I've never used before 🙀

So I asked folks on Twitter for their favorite Python resources and gathered them into a little list (in no particular order). Enjoy!

Table of Contents

• Books 📚
• Courses ✏️
• Tutorials 📃
• Videos 📹
• Your Recommendations 💬

Books 📚

• Fluent Python by Luciano Ramalho
• Learn Python the Hard Way by Zed A. Shaw
• Programming in Python 3: A Complete Introduction to the Python Language by Mark Summerfield
• Coding the Matrix by Philip N. Klein
• The Python Apprentice by Robert Smallshire and Austin Bingham
• Automate the Boring Stuff with Python Programming by Al Sweigart
• Head First Python, 2nd Edition by Paul Barry
• Other Python books by No Starch Press

Courses ✏️

• 🆓 Programming for Everybody (Getting Started with Python) by University of Michigan on Coursera
• 🆓 Introduction to Python by Microsoft
• Learn Python 3 by Codecademy
• AI Programming with Python Nanodegree by Udacity
• Automate the Boring Stuff with Python Programming by Al Sweigart on Udemy
• Complete Python Bootcamp: Go from zero to hero in Python 3 by Jose Portilla on Udemy
• Various courses by Rice University on Coursera

Tutorials 📃

• 🆓 11 Beginner Tips for Learning Python Programming by Krishelle Hardson-Hurley on Real Python
• 🆓 Learn Python in 10 minutes by Stavros Korokithakis
• 🆓 Python Programming Tutorials by Geeks for Geeks
• 🆓 Various entry-level Python tutorials by @codespent
• 🆓 More recommended tutorials by the Python community on Stack Overflow

Videos 📹

• 🆓 Python Tutorial for Beginners by Programming with Mosh
• 🆓 Python - Intro to Computer Science - Harvard's CS50 (2018) by freeCodeCamp
• 🆓 Python Tutorials by Corey Schafer

Your Recommendations 💬

Have any resources you think should be on this list? Comment below!

Comments

[Faudil]

Very helpfull thanks 👌👏 I just want to know if it's efficient to balance between these resources or just take one and focus on it ? Cs I tried the first one and I got completely lost and I don't want to be like a butterfly flying from course to another,, any advices it's will be extremely helpfull!

[Carolyn Stransky]

Thanks for commenting ☺️ I would guess that it depends on your learning style and what exactly you’re trying to learn.

I personally tend to stick with one resources when I’m doing more general language learning (like now I’m doing Codecademy for Python) then move on if it either isn’t working for me or I’ve gotten what I need out of it.

[Faudil]

Thanks again and thanks for ur time wish u a good luck ! 😉

[Orlando Lara]

Hello Carolyn. Actually, the Python 3 course in Codecademy is pretty good. I finished the Computer Science path there, which is 100% python. Depending on what you will be doing, you can take that route, or the Data Science Path, which is also in Python.

About the books, everybody talks about Automate the boring Stuff, i have it but it's still in my TODO list. Personally, i don't like long lists, it leads to procrastination 🤣 just pick one and go, you won't be wrong.

[Carolyn Stransky]

Yeah I’m working through the Learn Python 3 course on Codecademy now and enjoying it! I didn’t know the CS route was all Python, I’ll have to look into that as well. Thanks for the tip 💐

[Nikita Sobolev]

I would also recommend to use a good linter to make sure that you learn ideomatic python from the very start.

My tool of choice is wemake-python-styleguide. Check it out:

wemake-services / wemake-python-styleguide

The strictest and most opinionated python linter ever!

wemake-python-styleguide

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Welcome to the strictest and most opinionated python linter ever.

wemake-python-styleguide is actually a flake8 plugin with some other plugins as dependencies.

Quickstart

pip install wemake-python-styleguide

You will also need to create a setup.cfg file with the configuration.

We highly recommend to also use:

• flakehell for easy integration into a legacy codebase
• nitpick for sharing and validating configuration across multiple projects

Running

flake8 your_module.py

This app is still just good old flake8 And it won't change your existing workflow.

See "Usage" section in the docs for examples and integrations.

We also support Github Actions as first class-citizens Try it out!

What we are about

The ultimate goal of this project is to make all people write exactly the same python code.

flake8	pylint	black	mypy	wemake-python-styleguide
Formats code?	❌	❌	✅	❌	❌
Finds style issues?	🤔	✅	🤔	❌	✅
Finds bugs?	🤔	✅	❌

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