The book is well presented with good explanations of the code snippets. It works with you, one small step at a time, building more complex code, explaining what's going on all the way.”

Learning python is a smart investment of your time because the language is efficient and powerful. This book will get you where you need to be to program like a pro." One of the things that makes this book stand out is the emphasis on project-based learning. By working on projects such as creating games and visualizing data, readers are able to apply their newly learned skills in a practical way. People have a wide variety of reasons for learning to code, and finding work as a programmer is one of the most common reasons. I posted a section called Finding Employment as a (New) Programmer in the resources for the second edition of the book. There's nothing specific about the second edition in these resources; if you are reading Python Crash Course with the goal of finding work as a programmer, you might find this section helpful. Eric Matthes's Python Crash Course, 3rd Edition takes a well-regarded text for getting started with Python and brings it up to date for 2023. The book not only covers Python's basics but lets you put them to use in a series of projects involving data analysis, web development, and gaming. Many books offer either Python basics or projects to learn from. This one delivers both." Focuses on creating visualizations with Plotly. Making line graphs, scatter plots, and bar graphs, styling plots, making multiple plots, and working with geographical datasets.

Appendix A includes updated supplementary installation and setup instructions, for readers who run into any issues installing Python.

While Python Crash Course uses Python to teach you to code, it also teaches clean programming skills that apply to most other languages."

Focuses on functions: how to define a function and how to pass information to a function. Covers positional and keyword arguments, return values, passing lists, using modules, and more The game uses an FPS (frames per second) setting, to make it run more consistently across all systems.