Learn Python 3 the Hard Way

This is the Chinese edition of the Learn Python the Hard Way series for Python 3, rewritten from the original for Python 3.6 and positioned as a self-study tutorial for absolute beginners. Apart from Exercise 0: Preparation, the book contains 52 exercises. The first 26 cover basic topics such as printing, comments, numbers and math, variables and naming, strings and text, reading and writing files, and functions and return values. The second 26 progress step by step into Boolean expressions, if branches, while and for loops, lists and dictionaries, modules, classes and objects, inheritance and composition, and conclude with project exercises including automated testing, a project skeleton, a website, and a web game. Each exercise follows a consistent format: first the coding task and the expected result, then reinforcement drills and a break it section, and finally a Q&A of common questions. The author advocates not using an integrated development environment, instead completing the exercises in a command-line terminal with a simple text editor and the Python interpreter, so that readers understand how the computer and the tools work while doing the work themselves. The book also stresses no copying and pasting, requiring code to be typed in character by character, so that making mistakes, seeing errors, and debugging build the habit of reading code and troubleshooting. An appendix provides a command-line crash course to help readers unfamiliar with the terminal pick up the basics.