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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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i am just confused what i did , i don't know that i learn something from this but lets continue

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Harram

Pakistan

it was very fun and informative expeerience.

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Shreya Dubey

India

Sooooooooooooo fun to finally put all those python lesson to work

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Aiden

United States

Wrote my first python program!!

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Simon Pocrnjič

Slovenia

My first python project, loved it

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Zain Imran

Pakistan

This was a good basic introduction on how to put together everything learned so far. While not super useful in itself, it required some problem solving and was satisfying to get everything working.

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David Fischer

United States

Great first project. Not bugged down into the details too much. And a good review of learnt knowledge

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Carl Duraj

Norway

You missed that python < 3.9 did not support tuple, list, etc type checks without explicit import. Also the order in which you explained things was cumbersome

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Tyler Bird

United States

it was useful! step by step giving an overview on how to do, while teaching some useful things like import and sys.argv

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Sky Shen

United States

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