The Art of Hearthstone and Automate the Boring Stuff with Python: Practical Programming for Total Beginners

The Art of Hearthstone offers an in-depth glimpse into the creativity that made the wildly popular collectible card game into a global phenomenon. From the unseen concepts built early in Hearthstone’s development to the hundreds of beautiful fantasy illustrations that have captured players’ imaginations, this volume will show readers the art of the game in breathtaking detail. The book also tells the story of how Hearthstone came to be, growing from a small-team project to the worldwide success that it is today with more than 50 million players.

Published on: 2017-10-15

Original language: English

Dimensions: 10.00" h x 1.00" w x 11.00" l,

Binding: Hardcover

288 pages

If you've ever spent hours renaming files or updating hundreds of spreadsheet cells, you know how tedious tasks like these can be. But what if you could have your computer do them for you?

In Automate the Boring Stuff with Python, you'll learn how to use Python to write programs that do in minutes what would take you hours to do by hand no prior programming experience required. Once you've mastered the basics of programming, you'll create Python programs that effortlessly perform useful and impressive feats of automation to:

- Search for text in a file or across multiple files

- Create, update, move, and rename files and folders

- Search the Web and download online content

- Update and format data in Excel spreadsheets of any size

- Split, merge, watermark, and encrypt PDFs

- Send reminder emails and text notifications

- Fill out online forms

Step-by-step instructions walk you through each program, and practice projects at the end of each chapter challenge you to improve those programs and use your newfound skills to automate similar tasks.

Don't spend your time doing work a well-trained monkey could do. Even if you've never written a line of code, you can make your computer do the grunt work. Learn how in Automate the Boring Stuff with Python.

Brand: imusti

Published on: 2015-05-01

Original language: English

Number of items: 1

Dimensions: 9.00" h x 1.40" w x 7.00" l, .0 pounds

Binding: Paperback

504 pages

About the Author 

Al Sweigart is a software developer and teaches programming to kids and adults. He has written several Python books for beginners, including Hacking Secret Ciphers with Python, Invent Your Own Computer Games with Python, and Making Games with Python & Pygame.