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The Big Book Of Small Python Projects 81 Easy Practice Programs by Al Sweigart
Publisher: No Starch Press Release date: June 2021 400 Pages
If you read books of any kind on a regular basis, I’m certain you have a favorite author. For me, it depends on the genre; my number 1 favorite author would be Isaac Asimov. In the realm of Thrillers and Adventure novels, it would have to be Clive Cussler (although recently, this is being challenged by a number of “modern” authors). When it comes to computer programming, especially Python programming, the crown must go to Al Sweigart. I’m pretty sure that I have every one of his books, in one form or another.
His newest book is due out in June of 2021 and is called ‘The Big Book Of Small Python Projects’; it doesn’t disappoint. In this book, he has created 81 projects – all in 256 lines of code or less (including comment lines). As usual, his code is clean and well commented. The text for each project is clear, informative and uncluttered. Each project or chapter includes a “The Program in Action”, a “How it Works”, and an “Exploring the Program” section. The “Program in Action” section describes what the program does and has an example of the output. The “How it Works” section gives a gross overview of the code, and the code itself. The “Exploring the Program” section challenges the reader with questions like “What happens if you delete or comment out rolls.append(rollResult) on line 69?” or “What happens if, instead of a dice roll, you enter nothing?”
As I said, this book doesn’t disappoint. This book is excellent for beginners to Python programming and a great reference book for programmers who are well versed in programming. I’m happy to give this book 5 out of 5 stars!
With 81 chapters/projects, the table of contents would take too much space to put here. However, I’ve pulled a number of chapter titles that will give you a really good idea of what the book includes. You can find a complete list of chapters at https://nostarch.com/download/samples/BigBook_TOC.pdf