I've Read Over 100 Books on Python. Here are the Top 3

putting this in my favourites - even as a PhD student with plenty of experience, this is a very good description of how to learn something without getting bored to death of it. Excellent video.

Why would you even read even one python book? Let alone 100...

Nice video. I'll take a look at the Python for science. Have you ever evaluated coding teaching platforms? And how would you compare them to learning from a book? Could be next vid? I'm currently learning on Codecademy (nothing seems to stick. Terrible cheatsheets) but have taken some free codecamp courses on YT (far beyond my understanding).

100 Books in 10 minutes... Here you go... just paste it into Python, and you'll see the answer.

# Total available time
total_time = 10 * 60 # Convert 10 minutes to seconds

# Number of books to be presented
number_of_books = 100

# Time per book
time_per_book = total_time / number_of_books

# Output message
print(f"Time per book presentation: {time_per_book:.2f} seconds")

# Optional: Convert to minutes
time_per_book_minutes = time_per_book / 60

print(f"Time per book presentation: {time_per_book_minutes:.2f} minutes")

You don't need 100 books on Python. This is a waste of time. Don't read more than 2. 3 max. In fact don't even get into Python in 2024.

Excellent explanation. Thank you

The beauty of Python is that you don't have to read 100 books on Python. I was a developer for 50 years, but didn't know Python. I watched a couple of videos, started writing code, and Googled when I didn't know the answer. If I even have a book on Python, I don't remember its name, let alone having read it.

🤔🤔🤔 Any good book suggestions about making and deploying (large) python libraries to repositories? Best practices, etc.

Fluent Python 👍

Prove it, let's see your github and all your work going through these books.

Just starting an MS Data Science degree program. Though not new to programming, I have not used Python much in my career. Appreciate the suggestions!

Nice thoughtful and informative discussion. Probably you have read Magnus Lie Hetland's "Python Algorithms." It is a slightly idiosyncratic but very fun and readable complement to a more traditional book like Zelle's.

Have you looked at
:Murach's Python programming", which is published by Mike Murach & Associates, Inc? If not, check this one out.

fantastic video, thanks for this suggestions Giles, really helpful.

I would put in vote for headfirst python. From get go you start with interesting example as you build a big program.

Ugh. Well you learn by doing. Then 20 years later read some books and see what you should have been doing.

Why would u read 100 Python books? You don't even need to read one book to learn Python!

Can you talk about your views on teaching material for youngsters? As a teacher it's my experience that kids (ages 12-18) wouldn't find those recommendations engaging at all, at least by and large...

It must has been bored...

clip your nails, Giles.

hi friend i am from india and a school student i am interested in python and read many books from foreign and local there is one book called python by sumita arora its actually a textbook but believe me its worth time it has great language great questions and good code examples and the most😊 important the flow of the book is very well defined please try it

I literally hate, disgust python, switched to julia, very happy with it, but my doughter has to take python course, now I am watching this ..

Effective Pandas changed everything for me! It’s such a gem of a book and a must for anybody who wants to do something with Data Analysis

Thanks

vary naice

I call cap on him reading 100 python books.
No way, no how.

Python for dummies

Sadly no one mentioned functional programming.

I read 1 million boks and this is what i learned 🤪

U don't even need a book to learn python

Python Crash Course was the first book for Python that i bought 2 years ago!

if you are interested in machine learning and data science there is a really great book I like called Deep Learning with Python by Francois Chollet. even if it's older some of the tech is still relevant and also the language used to describe the processes very illuminating. I took a data science course and I found the book better at explaining things conceptually than the teacher

Many thanks for these valuable tips! Great Video!!!

Do you have any thoughts on Think Python by Allen B Downey?

The Python crash course is horrible. hundreds of stupid and boring examples and suddenly a huge project that is impossible for a beginner to follow

Please do video for intermediate to advance!!!

Why is not one book enaugh?

Algorithm McThinking?

Pyhton is general language for all kind on things. I am not interested in learning python for building games etc, I just want to learn python for data science, what you suggest for beginner? I have some programming in R, thanks

Why in the world would a person read 100 books on a single subject like Python? It's just not that interesting! 😂

why would you read 100 books?

Can you really learn a coding language from a book.? I've always been sceptical about it. I find its much better take course. They are more interactive. Whats your experiences?

Hi Giles,

Please can you consider doing doing a review for the book ‘Learn to Code By Solving Problems’ published by No Starch Press?

The author has a PhD in Computer Science Education, and I think the book is done very cleverly.

I commented about this book on a previous video and someone picked up on it and went out and bought the book. They said they went from not being able to retain anything, to really picking up the material.

Hope you’ll consider reviewing.

Many thanks

If you are interested in Data Analysis and Machine Learning, then the 4th book would be "An Introduction to Statistical Learning: with Applications in Python" 1st ed. 2023. The group of authors are machine-learning all-stars.

Matt Harrison's Effective Pandas is superb. Habe studied through the first edition and just bought the second updated version of that book.

I have started with programming 30 years ago. Basic, Pascal, C++, JavaScrypt, HTML, PHP, Python and after 30 years I ended up with "Hello World" because my biggest problem is, that I don’t know what to program. I know basics but then I am stuck, sit and think what to progam.

Love you videos, after every video I have apetite to start again to learn but it ends up everytime the same. Don’t know what to program. If you got any advice how to move further It would be advice of million value to me. thank you

Surprising that you didn't include fluent python and python cookbook by david beazley in this. They are really really good.

What do you think about the learning python by Mark Lutz ?