Automate the Boring Stuff with Python Workbook
Projects and Exercises to Sharpen Your Python Skills
Published on 4. November 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-1-7185-0450-9 (ISBN)
Description
Al Sweigart's classic coding book Automate the Boring Stuff with Python, now in its third edition, has taught more than half a million readers how to dispense with tedious tasks using the Python programming language. In this hands-on companion workbook, Sweigart gives those readers - and any Python programming beginner - hundreds of new ways to practice what they've learned. Through a wide variety of exercises, readers will test their understanding of programming concepts, face down tricky challenges, and explore use cases of common techniques. The workbook's creative projects encourage readers to build games, animations, and digital tools, offering novel ways to think about Python's applications in their everyday life. Covers Python 3.x and its ecosystem of third-party libraries.
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Language
English
Place of publication
San Francisco
United States
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Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 249 mm
Width: 203 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
470 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-7185-0450-9 (9781718504509)
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Al Sweigart
Automate the Boring Stuff with Python Workbook
Projects and Exercises to Sharpen Your Python Skills
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11/2025
No Starch Press
€30.99
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Al Sweigart is a software developer, fellow of the Python Software Foundation, and author of several popular programming books including Automate the Boring Stuff with Python, The Big Book of Small Python Projects, Beyond the Basic Stuff with Python, Coding with Minecraft, and The Recursive Book of Recursion (all from No Starch Press).
Content
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Python Basics
Chapter 2: if-else and Flow Control
Chapter 3: Loops
Chapter 4: Functions
Chapter 5: Debugging
Chapter 6: Lists
Chapter 7: Dictionaries and Structuring Data
Chapter 8: Strings and Text Editing
Chapter 9: Text Pattern Matching With Regular Expressions
Chapter 10: Reading and Writing Files
Chapter 11: Organizing Files
Chapter 12: Designing and Deploying Command Line Programs
Chapter 13: Web Scraping
Chapter 14: Working with Excel Spreadsheets
Chapter 15: Working with Google Sheets
Chapter 16: SQLite Databases
Chapter 17: PDF and Word Documents
Chapter 18: CSV, JSON, and XML Files
Chapter 19: Keeping Time, Scheduling Tasks, and Launching Programs
Chapter 20: Sending Email, Texts, and Push Notifications
Chapter 21: Making Graphs and Manipulating Images
Chapter 22: Recognizing Text in Images
Chapter 22: Controlling Keyboard and Mouse
Chapter 24: Text-To-Speech and Speech Recognition Engines
Answers
Introduction
Chapter 1: Python Basics
Chapter 2: if-else and Flow Control
Chapter 3: Loops
Chapter 4: Functions
Chapter 5: Debugging
Chapter 6: Lists
Chapter 7: Dictionaries and Structuring Data
Chapter 8: Strings and Text Editing
Chapter 9: Text Pattern Matching With Regular Expressions
Chapter 10: Reading and Writing Files
Chapter 11: Organizing Files
Chapter 12: Designing and Deploying Command Line Programs
Chapter 13: Web Scraping
Chapter 14: Working with Excel Spreadsheets
Chapter 15: Working with Google Sheets
Chapter 16: SQLite Databases
Chapter 17: PDF and Word Documents
Chapter 18: CSV, JSON, and XML Files
Chapter 19: Keeping Time, Scheduling Tasks, and Launching Programs
Chapter 20: Sending Email, Texts, and Push Notifications
Chapter 21: Making Graphs and Manipulating Images
Chapter 22: Recognizing Text in Images
Chapter 22: Controlling Keyboard and Mouse
Chapter 24: Text-To-Speech and Speech Recognition Engines
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