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Life & fun · September 2, 2015

Practice Makes Python

Your second Python book - build fluency through 50 exercises

Practice Makes Python launched on September 2, 2015 with 63 votes, #1,033 of 3,463 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 11 years on.

What it does

200 ten-minute Python exercises to make the syntax second nature. From the author of Python Workout: what's in the second edition, and where to practice next.

You can read about Python for months and still freeze in front of an empty editor. Reading teaches you what a dictionary comprehension is. It doesn’t give you the reflex to reach for one at the moment you need it. That only comes from writing code often enough that the syntax stops being the hard part, and you can spend your attention on the actual problem. Python Workout, Second Edition is 200 exercises built for exactly that. Each is small enough to finish with a cup of coffee. Each comes with a full solution that explains not only what works but why, and most come with variations for when you want to push a little harder. Twelve chapters, 240 pages, and a second edition that…from lernerpython.com

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