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Dev tools · January 27, 2017

Automate the Boring Stuff

Do in minutes what would take you hours & learn Python

Automate the Boring Stuff launched on January 27, 2017 with 8 votes, #1,737 of 3,670 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 9 years on.

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By Al Sweigart. Over 500,000 copies sold. Free to read under a Creative Commons license . Amazon | Barnes and Nobles | Powell's | Bookshop.org | Goodreads | Kobo | Thriftbooks “The best part of programming is the triumph of seeing the machine do something useful. Automate the Boring Stuff with Python frames all of programming as these small triumphs; it makes the boring fun.” “I'm having a lot of fun breaking things and then putting them back together, and just remembering the joy of turning a set of instructions into something useful and fun, like I did when I was a kid.” “If you are new to Python, get this book. ... If you lie in the category of experienced Pythonistas and haven’t read…from automatetheboringstuff.com

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