Eric Matthes’s Python Crash Course, 3rd Edition takes a well-regarded text for getting started with Python and brings it up to date for 2023.

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This is a crash course for Python. We'll quickly go through the basic data types of Python (strings, lists, sets, dictionaries), and cover conditionals and loops (if-else, while loops, for). We'll end ...