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Automate the Boring Stuff with Python Workbook: Projects and Exercises to Sharpen Your Python Skills
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This workbook transforms Al Sweigart’s best-selling guide from a reading experience into a coding experience. Following Automate the Boring Stuff with Python chapter by chapter, this workbook will help you turn concepts into muscle memory through carefully designed exercises, projects, and real Python scripts.
Every concept from Automate is reinforced through carefully sequenced questions, exercises, and projects that help you think like a programmer and prove to yourself that you really get it.
At the end of each chapter, you’ll tackle miniprojects that bring everything together. Whether you’re renaming files, scraping websites, converting text to speech, modifying spreadsheets, or sending emails, you’ll build scripts that do real work. Fun projects like image generators and word games are in the mix too, not just boring stuff.
Every question and project come with a solution at the back of the book, so you’re never stuck.
Inside, you’ll find:
- Fill-in-the-blank and short-answer questions that reinforce key concepts
- Targeted exercises to build fluency with variables, loops, functions, regular expressions, and more
- Real Python scripts to run, tweak, and debug
- Projects that automate common tasks like organizing files, backing up data, and scheduling programs
- Full working code for every project so you can check your work and learn by example
With over 500,000 copies sold worldwide, Automate the Boring Stuff with Python has become the go-to guide for learning Python. This workbook gives you the structure, feedback, and smart reinforcement to go from reading code to writing it with confidence.
- ISBN-101718504500
- ISBN-13978-1718504509
- PublisherNo Starch Press
- Publication dateNovember 4, 2025
- LanguageEnglish
- Dimensions8.06 x 0.65 x 9.94 inches
- Print length256 pages
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About the Author
Al Sweigart is a professional software developer who teaches programming to kids and adults. Sweigart has written several bestselling programming books for beginners, including Invent Your Own Computer Games with Python, Cracking Codes with Python, and Coding with Minecraft, as well as those for intermediate-level programmers, like Beyond the Basic Stuff with Python and The Recursive Book of Recursion (all from No Starch Press).
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No Starch Press has published the finest in geek entertainment since 1994, creating both timely and timeless titles like Python Crash Course, Python for Kids, How Linux Works, and Hacking: The Art of Exploitation. An independent, San Francisco-based publishing company, No Starch Press focuses on a curated list of well-crafted books that make a difference. They publish on many topics, including computer programming, cybersecurity, operating systems, and LEGO. The titles have personality, the authors are passionate experts, and all the content goes through extensive editorial and technical reviews. Long known for its fun, fearless approach to technology, No Starch Press has earned wide support from STEM enthusiasts worldwide.
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- Publisher : No Starch Press
- Publication date : November 4, 2025
- Language : English
- Print length : 256 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1718504500
- ISBN-13 : 978-1718504509
- Item Weight : 13 ounces
- Dimensions : 8.06 x 0.65 x 9.94 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #112,227 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #70 in Python Programming
- #91 in Software Development (Books)
- #103 in Computer Programming Languages
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About the author

Al Sweigart is a software developer and tech book author living in Houston. He has written several programming books for beginners, including Automate the Boring Stuff with Python. His books are freely available under a Creative Commons license at his website https://inventwithpython.com.



















