🐍 Automate the Boring Stuff with Python

My hands-on journey through the book: notes, solutions, and real-world scripts

📖 Read the Book • 🛒 Publisher Page • 🐍 Python Docs

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📑 Table of Contents

• About the Book
• Goals
• Project Structure
• Progress Tracker
• Getting Started
• Tech Stack
• Notes
• Resources
• Author

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📖 About the Book

Automate the Boring Stuff with Python teaches Python from scratch, then shows how to write scripts that finish in minutes the tedious tasks that would take hours by hand: organizing files, scraping websites, working with Excel, PDFs, and more.

📘 Title	Automate the Boring Stuff with Python
🔢 Edition	3rd Edition
✍️ Author	Al Sweigart
🏢 Publisher	No Starch Press
🌐 Free Online	automatetheboringstuff.com/3e

Note

This repository is an independent learning project and is not affiliated with the author or publisher. The book's content is not included here. Only my own code, notes, and solutions are.

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🎯 Goals

• ✅ Practice every chapter by writing the code myself
• ✅ Solve the practice questions and end-of-chapter projects
• ✅ Build a personal library of reusable automation scripts
• ✅ Document what I learn along the way

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🗂️ Project Structure

Automate-The-Boring-Stuff-With-python/
│
├── 📁 ch01_python_basics/
│   ├── 📁 examples/        # Code from the chapter
│   ├── 📁 practice/        # Practice question solutions
│   └── 📁 projects/        # End-of-chapter projects
│
├── 📁 ch02_flow_control/
├── 📁 ch03_loops/
├── 📁 ...
│
├── 📁 my_projects/         # Original projects inspired by the book
├── 📄 requirements.txt
├── 📄 .gitignore
└── 📄 README.md

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📊 Progress Tracker

Legend: ⬜ Not started  |  🟨 In progress  |  ✅ Completed

🧱 Part 1: Python Programming Basics

#	Chapter	Status
0	Introduction	⬜
1	Python Basics	⬜
2	if-else and Flow Control	⬜
3	Loops	⬜
4	Functions	⬜
5	Debugging	⬜
6	Lists	⬜
7	Dictionaries and Structuring Data	⬜
8	Strings and Text Editing	⬜

⚙️ Part 2: Automating Tasks

#	Chapter	Status
9	Text Pattern Matching with Regular Expressions	⬜
10	Reading and Writing Files	⬜
11	Organizing Files	⬜
12	Designing and Deploying Command Line Programs	⬜
13	Web Scraping	⬜
14	Excel Spreadsheets	⬜
15	Google Sheets	⬜
16	SQLite Databases	⬜
17	PDF and Word Documents	⬜
18	CSV, JSON, and XML Files	⬜
19	Keeping Time, Scheduling Tasks, and Launching Programs	⬜
20	Sending Email, Texts, and Push Notifications	⬜
21	Making Graphs and Manipulating Images	⬜
22	Recognizing Text in Images	⬜
23	Controlling the Keyboard and Mouse	⬜
24	Text-to-Speech and Speech Recognition Engines	⬜

📎 Appendices

#	Appendix	Status
A	Installing Third-Party Packages	⬜
B	Answers to the Practice Questions	⬜

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🚀 Getting Started

Prerequisites

• 🐍 Python 3.10+
• 🔧 Git

Installation

1. Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/ZeroLayerOS/Automate-The-Boring-Stuff-With-python.git
cd Automate-The-Boring-Stuff-With-python

2. Create a virtual environment (recommended)

python -m venv venv

Activate it

# Linux / macOS
source venv/bin/activate

# Windows (PowerShell)
venv\Scripts\Activate.ps1

# Windows (CMD)
venv\Scripts\activate.bat

3. Install dependencies

pip install -r requirements.txt

4. Run any script

python ch01_python_basics/examples/hello.py

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🧰 Tech Stack

Third-party libraries are added chapter by chapter. See requirements.txt for the full list.

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📝 Notes

• Code is written in my own style with extra experiments, not copied verbatim from the book.
• Found a bug or have a better solution? Feel free to open an Issue or a Pull Request. 🙌

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🔗 Resources

Resource	Link
📖 Book (free online)	automatetheboringstuff.com/3e
🌐 Author's website	automatetheboringstuff.com
📚 Official Python docs	docs.python.org

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👤 Author

ZeroLayerOS

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