Learn Python The Hard Way 2nd Edition Released

This reminds me of Ruby on Rails Tutorial by Michael Hartl. I love the idea of the book being online in HTML for free, but you can pay for a better learning experience: screencasts, PDF files, and online training courses.

What's new in the 2nd edition? Couldn't find a list of updates/additions anywhere.

LPTHW has a good rep, but it looks like it focuses on teaching someone who's never programmed before.<p>Would anyone like to recommend something similar for people already well versed in (a) mainstream language(s)?

Zed, are you going to be writing any other books for Python, like Python 3 or more advanced topics? Maybe "Advanced Python the Hard Way?"

Does anyone know of any good books for people that are proficient with Python and want to learn more about the language and come closer to being an expert?<p>The idea of LPTHW has always seemed cool, but I've looked at the table of contents a couple of times and thought "huh, 80% of these topics seem trivial to me"; maybe I could still benefit by skimming through and reading anything that I don't already know. Also, it's kind of a bummer that there's no .mobi version.

Has the book "Learn C the hard way" released yet?

Just bought the Kindle version. Now I have the book on my Kindle and iPhone Kindle App (Looks really crisp on my iphone and has anchor links to each chapter, although it could use a better table of contents)<p>Link: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00586LJ2O/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#38;tag=smacovlan-20&#38;linkCode=as2&#38;camp=217145&#38;creative=399373&#38;creativeASIN=B00586LJ2O" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00586LJ2O/ref=as_li_ss_tl?...</a>

Awesome! 1st ed was invaluable to my co-Founder when she started learning Python for our startup a few months ago.

I just picked this up on AppSumo. I'm coming from PHP and C, so this will be a nice chance to try out Python.

Now on exercise 15! Best US$1 I've ever spent so far! Thanks Zed!

What are the advantages of using this book over the online tutorials that are available on the python website or even using some of the MIT OpenCourseWare courses?

What is the advantage of the course (on discount today)?

I am doing all of it with Python 3. So far, very little needs changing to make the examples work. Very clean and concise. Thanks Zed.

Planning to buy the paperback. While checking out the paperback info, I noticed that the pdf is still free on lulu.

Thanks Zed, I just bought the epub for my kindle. I am going to give it a go.

Just bought a copy for my iPad. I look forward to reading it!

love this book. very little verbal fluff, allows the reader to figure out the material on their own with the exercises and extra credit.

Just bought the PDF, Damn paypal tricket me into paying $1.00 with billmelater =/

I checked the first couple of sections, and I'm sure learning Python "the Hard Way" would have been much more exciting than reading the official documentation... Oh, well. What is done is done.