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Build a Bookbot in Python

Build your first local command-line app and use the real tools developers use every day.

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What will you learn?

You'll build a real command-line application in Python that does data analysis on text files, or rather, entire novels like "Frankenstein", "Moby Dick" or "Pride and Prejudice". You'll be guided through the set up of a professional development environment using Python. This is the perfect first Python project for beginners.

Chapter List

1
Setup
Set up a local Python development environment
2
Data Analysis
Write Python functions that analyze data from a novel of text and extrapolate word and character counts
3
Report
Build a beautiful analytics report and add command-line tooling to make your application usable with any plain text file

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heri susanto

Indonesia

This project is very interesting. ;)

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Eliseu Soares

Angola

Dat's sum good shit

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Kinematickino

Mandurah, Western Australia

I liked the structure for this project, it's a nice way of applying most of the knowledge acquired with the 2 previous courses, the key in this project is if you feel stuck, remember to search in your spellbook, the answer is most likely to be buried in there!

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Colombia

it was great

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Manvanth V.M

India

the new submission using cli was a new experience but not bad one

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Ayush Agarkar

India

Very nice transition into a practical end to end utilization of the principles that have been introduced.

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Nick Olson

United States

very enjoyable first experience into writing a project in python

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Andreas Terhoeven

Germany

fun first project to build, not to hard, but you learn some valuable lessons along the way that you will certainly need in the future

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Okbe p.ivs

Belgium

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