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Build a Bookbot in Python

Build your first local command-line app and use the real tools developers use every day.

What will you learn?

You'll build a real command-line application in Python that does data analysis on text files, or rather, entire novels like "Frankenstein", "Moby Dick" or "Pride and Prejudice". You'll be guided through the set up of a professional development environment using Python. This is the perfect first Python project for beginners.

Chapter List

1
Setup
Set up a local Python development environment
2
Data Analysis
Write Python functions that analyze data from a novel of text and extrapolate word and character counts
3
Report
Build a beautiful analytics report and add command-line tooling to make your application usable with any plain text file

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easy. good python beginners course. took me 30 minutes

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Faidhi Nordin

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

I built my first program!!

(5/5)
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Jay Starkland

United States

Best learning method

(5/5)
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Rashid Yaseen

Pakistan, Islmabad, Nust(H-12)

without boots you will fail

(4/5)
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Misha Ryabinov

Canada

Pretty good in challenging what you learned in the first course!

(5/5)
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Stefan Petit-Freres

United States

I've learn some useful staff.

(5/5)
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ROB

United Kingdom

This course required just the right amount of tinkering and self exploring.

(5/5)
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dario horat

Switzerland

most early python project skip accessing files and and using system commands, feels really good to create something includes downloading files from the internet

(5/5)
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Ammar Taha

Zürich

Awesome course. It forced me to think deeply about the fundamentals and get comfortable debugging.

(5/5)
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Eugene C.

A galaxy far far away...

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