--- product_id: 503763225 title: "Head First Python: A Learner's Guide to the Fundamentals of Python Programming, A Brain-Friendly Guide" price: "SAR 233" currency: SAR in_stock: true reviews_count: 12 url: https://www.desertcart.com.sa/products/503763225-head-first-python-a-learners-guide-to-the-fundamentals-python store_origin: SA region: Saudi Arabia --- # Head First Python: A Learner's Guide to the Fundamentals of Python Programming, A Brain-Friendly Guide **Price:** SAR 233 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Head First Python: A Learner's Guide to the Fundamentals of Python Programming, A Brain-Friendly Guide - **How much does it cost?** SAR 233 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.com.sa](https://www.desertcart.com.sa/products/503763225-head-first-python-a-learners-guide-to-the-fundamentals-python) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description What will you learn from this book? Want to learn the Python language without slogging your way through how-to manuals? With Head First Python , you'll quickly grasp Python's fundamentals by working with built-in data structures and functions. You'll build your very own web app, which—once it's ready for prime time—runs in the cloud. You'll learn how to wrangle data with Python, scrape data from the web, feed data to pandas, and interact with databases. This third edition is a complete learning experience that will help you become a bona fide Python programmer in no time. What's so special about this book? If you've read a Head First book, you know what to expect: a visually rich format designed for the way your brain works. If you haven't, you're in for a treat. With this book, you'll learn Python through a multisensory experience that engages your mind—rather than a text-heavy approach that puts you to sleep. Review: Teaches you how to 'fish'! (er, not literally) - 6 month update at the bottom! But first, are you familiar with that ol' saying: "Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime."? Well, this book, teaches you 'how to fish'! enough said? UPDATES AT THE BOTTOM: Buy the book, you will love it and learn so much from it. I've purchased other books to learn Python Programming, most other books simply give you the 'fish.' I don't want to spoil (no pun intended) things for you, but one thing I like about this book so far (among many things) is the CROSSWORD PUZZLES! You would not think they are all that, but I found myself memorizing the crossword puzzle words a lot faster than if they were given to me on a list! Highly recommend this book!!! UPDATES: 1. I am now at the end of Chapter 4 and just when I was about to finish the Chapter and reveal the Chart, I pressed SHIFT+ENTER as I was following the book line by line, then... NOTHING HAPPENED! At this point I got a little frustrated because I had to go back several pages to make sure I did not miss a step, then, I realized it was not my code... THERE WAS AN UPDATE TO THIS CHAPTER! Long story short, if you get to Page 211 and you don't see any charts pop up on a web browser, visit the book's github website and open chapter 4 folder, then open Charts.ipynb file, you can either compare your code (if you were following along) or simply copy & paste every single line of code as you see it in the github file. copy every code... up until and including the one below: webbrowser.open("file://" + os.path.realpath(chart)) The charts showed up for me after I copied all lines of code up until this code above. Now I can move on. Good Luck! UPDATE 2: So, today as I came back home from daily walk I had this hunch that I should go back and look at all the code notebooks I had so far and study how the relate to each other... as I was opening my files one by one, Cleared All Outputs, Restarted the Kernel and Ran All code again... Python came back with an error! (The asterisk and underbar are missing) Here is the fix, for Pg. 147: Swimmer, age, distance, stroke, times2, average, *_ = data times2 Still love the book even though I ran into a few snags, but that's a good thing, you are already learning how to troubleshoot... someone else's code! Stay motivated! UPDATE BELOW! Ok, so this is a six month update of using this fantastic-Amazing Book! So, you know those 'red squiggly thingys' that show under misspelled words? This progress update is for something that I came across on page 134 or when you are instructed to create a file called "Files.ipynb". Ok, so you create the file then you are instructed to type a command ( import swimclub )... so, when I did this, the squiggly thingy appeared under the word swimclub! And I was like "wait a minute, that should not be there!" So, I started back tracking checking all my code line by line and everything was fine, but squiggly thingy did not go away! Long story short... IGNORE THE SQUIGGLY LINE UNDER THE WORD swimclub, THE CODE STILL WORKS, KEEP ON GOING! Stay motivated! Review: Decent book but not for beginners. - Decent book but not for beginners. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #269,154 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #13 in Teen & Young Adult Computer Programming #39 in Object-Oriented Software Design #60 in Object-Oriented Design | | Customer Reviews | 4.4 out of 5 stars 73 Reviews | ## Images ![Head First Python: A Learner's Guide to the Fundamentals of Python Programming, A Brain-Friendly Guide - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/817ZRa3zxBL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Teaches you how to 'fish'! (er, not literally) *by J***. on January 9, 2024* 6 month update at the bottom! But first, are you familiar with that ol' saying: "Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime."? Well, this book, teaches you 'how to fish'! enough said? UPDATES AT THE BOTTOM: Buy the book, you will love it and learn so much from it. I've purchased other books to learn Python Programming, most other books simply give you the 'fish.' I don't want to spoil (no pun intended) things for you, but one thing I like about this book so far (among many things) is the CROSSWORD PUZZLES! You would not think they are all that, but I found myself memorizing the crossword puzzle words a lot faster than if they were given to me on a list! Highly recommend this book!!! UPDATES: 1. I am now at the end of Chapter 4 and just when I was about to finish the Chapter and reveal the Chart, I pressed SHIFT+ENTER as I was following the book line by line, then... NOTHING HAPPENED! At this point I got a little frustrated because I had to go back several pages to make sure I did not miss a step, then, I realized it was not my code... THERE WAS AN UPDATE TO THIS CHAPTER! Long story short, if you get to Page 211 and you don't see any charts pop up on a web browser, visit the book's github website and open chapter 4 folder, then open Charts.ipynb file, you can either compare your code (if you were following along) or simply copy & paste every single line of code as you see it in the github file. copy every code... up until and including the one below: webbrowser.open("file://" + os.path.realpath(chart)) The charts showed up for me after I copied all lines of code up until this code above. Now I can move on. Good Luck! UPDATE 2: So, today as I came back home from daily walk I had this hunch that I should go back and look at all the code notebooks I had so far and study how the relate to each other... as I was opening my files one by one, Cleared All Outputs, Restarted the Kernel and Ran All code again... Python came back with an error! (The asterisk and underbar are missing) Here is the fix, for Pg. 147: Swimmer, age, distance, stroke, times2, average, *_ = data times2 Still love the book even though I ran into a few snags, but that's a good thing, you are already learning how to troubleshoot... someone else's code! Stay motivated! UPDATE BELOW! Ok, so this is a six month update of using this fantastic-Amazing Book! So, you know those 'red squiggly thingys' that show under misspelled words? This progress update is for something that I came across on page 134 or when you are instructed to create a file called "Files.ipynb". Ok, so you create the file then you are instructed to type a command ( import swimclub )... so, when I did this, the squiggly thingy appeared under the word swimclub! And I was like "wait a minute, that should not be there!" So, I started back tracking checking all my code line by line and everything was fine, but squiggly thingy did not go away! Long story short... IGNORE THE SQUIGGLY LINE UNDER THE WORD swimclub, THE CODE STILL WORKS, KEEP ON GOING! Stay motivated! ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Decent book but not for beginners. *by T***B on January 10, 2024* Decent book but not for beginners. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Genial! cumpliendo con la calidad de head first *by P***A on December 28, 2025* Un placer como siempre con esta linea de libros. Perfectos para aprender bien desde la base (y no tan base) un lenguaje de programación. Tremendamente pedagogicos, un enfoque que prima sobre atiborrarte de datos innecesarios cuando estas aprendiendpo. 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