" love [the book]the wording is casualeasy to understandand makes the information ow well never feel lost in the materialand it' not too dense so it' easy for me to review older over and over 've looked at over di erent python tutorials/books/online coursesand 've probably learned the most from real python!-thomas wong "three years later and still return to my real python books when need quick refresher on usage of vital python commands -rob fowler " oundered for long time trying to teach myself slogged through dozens of incomplete online tutorials snoozed through hours of boring screencasts gave up on countless crufty books from big-time publishers and then found real python the easy-to-followstep-by-step instructions break the big concepts down into bite-sized chunks written in plain english the authors never forget their audience and are consistently thorough and detailed in their explanations ' up and running nowbut constantly refer to the material for guidance -jared nielsen