This book is written by Hou Jue, founder of Muggle Programming and instructor of the NetEase Cloud Classroom "Python in Practice" series, and is aimed at zero-foundation readers who have never touched programming. Drawing on his own experience of failing to find suitable materials when he first learned programming, the author argues against the "dumb method"—that is, against relying on mechanical copying and grinding through syntax—and distills the core of efficient learning into three points: conciseness, meaning prioritizing the most essential key knowledge rather than learning every dictionary-like detail; understanding, meaning explaining abstract concepts clearly through analogy and visualization; and practice, meaning first using key knowledge to build your own knowledge system and then gradually improving it through real small projects. The book is concise, about a hundred-plus pages, with layout and illustrations that emphasize readability; it deliberately avoids side-by-side comparison with other programming languages such as C, and does not use one unfamiliar concept to explain another, so beginners are not repeatedly stuck. Real project fragments and small hands-on projects are interspersed so readers know where each knowledge point can be applied—for example, data scraping and analysis, building a simple website, or programming an investment strategy. The author stresses that the goal is to "achieve" quickly and produce small results rather than to "master" the language; most readers can finish it in about a week. The book suits adult self-learners and students who treat Python as their first programming language and hope to quickly build an overall understanding and get hands-on.
Posts & Telecom Press is known for its strengths in science and technology, computing, and information and communications titles, and has extended its publishing into photography, art, software learning, and inspirational growth, giving it a fairly diverse range. Its catalog includes computing and communications works such as Refactoring and Patterns (Revised Edition) and Huawei Switch Learning Guide (Second Edition), alongside bilingual collector's editions such as The Little Prince (Chinese-English-French illustrated collector's edition), The Great Gatsby, and Three Days to See. Beijing Ten Years: 1980-1990 and Ghost Blade: WLOP Personal Illustration Collection reflect its presence in photography and art. Its authors include Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Helen Keller, Joshua Kerievsky, Wang Da, Zhang Zhaozeng, and WLOP.
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