Automate the Boring Stuff Workbook

by Al Sweigart

Fall 2025, 256 pp.

ISBN-13:

9781718504509

Al Sweigart’s classic coding book Automate the Boring Stuff with Python, now in its third edition, has taught more than half a million readers how to dispense with tedious tasks using the Python programming language.

In this hands-on companion workbook, Sweigart gives those readers — and any Python programming beginner — hundreds of new ways to practice what they’ve learned. Through a wide variety of exercises, readers will test their understanding of programming concepts, face down tricky challenges, and explore use cases of common techniques.

The workbook’s creative projects encourage readers to build games, animations, and digital tools, offering novel ways to think about Python’s applications in their everyday life. Covers Python 3.x and its ecosystem of third-party libraries.

Author Bio

Al Sweigart is a professional software developer who teaches programming to kids and adults. Sweigart has written several bestselling programming books for beginners, including Invent Your Own Computer Games with Python, Cracking Codes with Python, and Coding with Minecraft, as well as those for intermediate-level programmers, like Beyond the Basic Stuff with Python and The Recursive Book of Recursion (all from No Starch Press).