The Complete Python Programming Bundle - $79

I'm kind of interested in this. I haven't really touched programming since college but I see a lot of value and opportunity to use it at my job. Just curious if this is worth the "low" price over the numerous other free options out there. Kind of hard to tell whats going to be quality education vs some schmuck just relaying 50% of the 70% he took in from a book.
 
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Python is very capable for web development, complex math, Unix shell scripts, general purpose console programs

It is not good for
GUIs
Game development

Python has tons of tutorials on the web that you can really learn it for free. I forgot the Ebook I used to learn it many years ago but it was $35 or so and then I learned Flask for web development reading their documentation.
So $79 might be worth it for all you get but you can get by with less hand holding for less.

Edit: https://www.manning.com/books/the-quick-python-book-second-edition
Recommended. A little old now but it covers Python 3 (which is what is the current version).
 
i jumped at this.. i taught myself perl 17 years ago, and its been my goto language.. but in my world today.. I have to know some python to be successful as a lot of the younger folks coming into IT, its their default language of choice.
 
You will like Python more than Perl. Way better structure.
 
Don't forget AWS.... You can do pretty much anything AWS related with python & boto/3.
 
Staples said:
Python is very capable for web development, complex math, Unix shell scripts, general purpose console programs

It is not good for
GUIs
Game development

Python has tons of tutorials on the web that you can really learn it for free. I forgot the Ebook I used to learn it many years ago but it was $35 or so and then I learned Flask for web development reading their documentation.
So $79 might be worth it for all you get but you can get by with less hand holding for less.

Edit: https://www.manning.com/books/the-quick-python-book-second-edition
Recommended. A little old now but it covers Python 3 (which is what is the current version).
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You can make really compelling things in tkinter and pygame is a great library for 2d games. So I disagree.
 
I bit. Looks like the whole deadline for the sale is just to create urgency because I bought it last night when only 4 hours were left, this morning 7 days.

I think for me once I get past the initial hurdle of where to start I'm pretty good at self learning and progressing. So some structured learning to get me through the door works best for me. We'll see if these courses are any better than some of the PHP youtube videos I've watched in the past.
 
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Would this be recommended for beginners? I'm looking to try my hand at Linux administration, and have like, 0 experience. All of my sysadmin experience is on the Windows side, so I've had to do minimal scripting. I need to expand my horizons a bit, though, if I don't want to be left in the dust.
 
If a learning course is "on sale" on stack social, that's more or less the price within a few bucks.

That's not to say they are bad deals, just that the "normal" price is bullshit. Also in general, a LOT of these courses are sold multiple places like udemy, stacksocial (used to just hand out udemy codes, now has stacklearning or something like that), etc. You can shop around for the biggest discount very often.
 
I was going to jump on this, but I noticed this in the product page:
Details & Requirements

  • Length of time users can access this course: 1 year
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Can anyone elaborate what this actually means? Does this mean I can only view and access this material for one calendar year after I purchase it, then I'm locked out?

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Staples said:
You will like Python more than Perl. Way better structure.
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I was a pretty big curmudgeon when it came to python years back mainly because it couldn't compete with Perls Cpan.. But that has radically changed. And you are right. Perl is so powerful that it allows you to write the same thing 5 different ways. While yes thats awesome, Python worked to make things easier to understand. I hate looking at someone else perl code, same as im sure someone hates looking at mine.
 
Cmustang87 said:
I was going to jump on this, but I noticed this in the product page:


Can anyone elaborate what this actually means? Does this mean I can only view and access this material for one calendar year after I purchase it, then I'm locked out?

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as a guess you are not buying anything you can download, aside from supplementary materials, but buying access to a course which involves you logging in to their servers to take. after a year your access to that course would be gone.

at least that is what I have seen with other online courses.
 
jiminator said:
as a guess you are not buying anything you can download, aside from supplementary materials, but buying access to a course which involves you logging in to their servers to take. after a year your access to that course would be gone.

at least that is what I have seen with other online courses.
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I don't think this is the case with something like Udemy, for example. Thanks for the info though, I wasn't sure.
 
Mmmm, R and Python are the top two on my list. Learning R right now through Coursera I dont know if I should get this now.
 
Staples said:
You will like Python more than Perl. Way better structure.
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I find it the other way personally, and still use Perl (along with Tcl, Ruby, and Scala) everyday on the job (physical design implementation and flow development).
 
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