at real python you'll learn real-world programming skills from community of professional pythonistas from all around the world the realpython com website launched in and currently helps more than three million python developers each month with free programming tutorials and in-depth learning resources everyone who worked on this book is practitioner with several years of professional experience in the software industry here are the members of the real python tutorial team who worked on python basicsdavid amos is the content technical lead for real python after leaving academia in david worked in various technical positions as programmer and data scientist in david joined real python full time to pursue his passion for education he lead the charge on rewriting and updating the python basics curriculum to python dan bader is the owner and editor in chief of real python and the main developer of the realpython com learning platform dan has been writing code for more than twenty years and holds master' degree in computer science he' the author of python tricksa bestselling programming book for intermediate python developers joanna jablonski is the executive editor of real python she likes natural languages just as much as she likes programming languages her love for puzzlespatternsand pesky little details led her to follow career in translation it was only matter of time before she would fall in love with new languagepythonshe joined real python in and has been helping pythonistas level up ever since fletcher heisler is the founder of hunter where he teaches developers how to hack and secure modern web apps as one of the founding members of real pythonfletcher wrote the first version of the python curriculum this book is based on in