Practice Python Projects

This book presents five beginner-to-intermediate level projects inspired by real world use cases:

• Enhance your CLI experience with a custom Python calculator
• Analyzing poll data from a Reddit comment thread
• Finding typos in plain text and Markdown files
• Creating a GUI for evaluating multiple choice questions
• Square Tic Tac Toe — creating a GUI game with AI logic

To test your understanding and to make it more interesting, you'll also be presented with exercises at the end of each project. Resources for further exploration are also mentioned throughout the book. Visit https://youtu.be/5whwiiURWS8 for a short video about the book.

See Version_changes.md to keep track of changes made to the book.

E-book

• You can purchase the pdf/epub versions of the book using these links:
  • https://leanpub.com/py_projects
  • https://learnbyexample.gumroad.com/l/py_projects
• You can also get the book as part of these bundles:
  • All books bundle bundle from https://leanpub.com/b/learnbyexample-all-books or https://learnbyexample.gumroad.com/l/all-books
  • Learn by example Python bundle from https://leanpub.com/b/python-bundle or https://learnbyexample.gumroad.com/l/python-bundle
• See https://learnbyexample.github.io/books/ for a list of other books

For a preview of the book, see sample chapters.

The book can also be viewed as a single markdown file in this repo. See my blogpost on generating pdf/epub from markdown using pandoc if you are interested in the ebook creation process.

For the web version of the book, visit https://learnbyexample.github.io/practice_python_projects/

Testimonials

Your Practice Python Projects book is really helping me to reinforce my knowledge and mastery of Python as I'm learning.

— feedback on twitter

Feedback and Contributing

⚠️ ⚠️ Please DO NOT submit pull requests. Main reason being any modification requires changes in multiple places.

I would highly appreciate it if you'd let me know how you felt about this book. It could be anything from a simple thank you, pointing out a typo, mistakes in code snippets, which aspects of the book worked for you (or didn't!) and so on. Reader feedback is essential and especially so for self-published authors.

You can reach me via:

• Issue Manager: https://github.com/learnbyexample/practice_python_projects/issues
• E-mail: echo 'bGVhcm5ieWV4YW1wbGUubmV0QGdtYWlsLmNvbQo=' | base64 --decode
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/learn_byexample

Acknowledgements

• Python documentation — manuals and tutorials
• /r/learnpython/ and /r/Python/ — helpful forums for Python programmers
• stackoverflow and unix.stackexchange — for getting answers on Python, Bash and other pertinent questions
• tex.stackexchange — for help on pandoc and tex related questions
• canva — cover image
• oxipng, pngquant and svgcleaner — optimizing images
• Warning and Info icons by Amada44
• mdBook — for web version of the book
  • mdBook-pagetoc — for adding table of contents for each page
  • minify-html — for minifying html files

License

The book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

The code snippets are licensed under MIT, see LICENSE file.