Learn How to Automate Tasks and the Basics of Python

Written on September 15, 2015

Came across this free resource (website version of the book, Automate the Boring Stuff with Python) that teaches you the basics of Python and how to automate tasks with the language. I’ve never picked up Python myself but it looks like a good read. Here are some tasks that I thought were interesting that you’ll learn to automate from reading this book.

  • Organizing files
  • Web scraping
  • Time, scheduling tasks and launching programs

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