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Recommend me a Python book for absolute beginners (lemmy.world)
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My SO is interested in learning Python because she hopes it becomes useful in her work. She works with ArcGIS and/or QGIS and apparently it supports Python scripting so she's thinking about giving it a go.

She has no programming background so I was hoping you friends could suggest something for absolute beginners that would teach her both the Python and programming basics. It doesn't have to be very comprehensive, just something to get her started.

She has managed to get some scripts working through copy/pasting and minor adjustments but she lacks the foundations to really build a script of her own.

Thanks a lot!!

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

The short term goal is only to learn the absolute basics of programming. I only mentioned GIS to give some context on why I was narrowing down the language to python.

She's familiar with all the keywords you mentioned as she already works in GIS, just not as a developer.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Sweet I'd say automate the boring stuff is excellent.

My meaning was python plus those things is an awesome world of hobby and professional development, that's all. Lots of great projects can be even greater with python