By Zed A. Shaw

Learn Python The Hard Way Done!

Alright, so maybe it's "programmer done" but I just finished the last exercise for Learn Python The Hard Way and will now be editing it and doing the index. That's 52 exercises mapping out quite a lot more Python than I thought I'd do originally.

I get into most data structures, classes and object, and I manage to very sneakily teach parsing even. I'm thinking that when someone's done with LPTHW they can definitely move onto another book and do some real programming.

You can get the PDF of the book and read through it. If you find errors then please report a new ticket so I can fix it.

Writing this book was incredibly fun. Having people actually learn to code from it is probably the best. Having people who couldn't learn to code before my book is even better.

I'm probably going to take the final edited version of the book and offer it on lulu.com for very cheap from their JIT printing service. The goal will be to make the book cheap enough that just about anyone can get a printed copy if they want. The book will always be a free download from the website as a PDF too, and you're free to share it with others as long as you don't charge for it or change it.

I may also want to meet people in SF who are going through the book and help them out. If anyone's interested, let me know on twitter.