Automate the Boring Stuff with Python

This book by Al Sweigart came up once on Lex Fridman in the episodes we index. That mention was a genuine on-air recommendation, not just a passing reference. The people who brought it up: Peter Wang. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.

If you've ever spent hours renaming files or updating hundreds of spreadsheet cells, you know how tedious tasks like these can be. But what if you could have your computer do them for you? In Automate the Boring Stuff with Python, you'll learn how to use Python to write programs that do in minutes what would take you hours to do by hand, no prior programming experience required.