Coffee Break Python: 50 Workouts to Kickstart Your Rapid Code Understanding in Python

by Christian Mayer

Little time to learn Python?Python puzzles help you to learn faster, smarter, and better. This book offers 50 educative code puzzles, 10 tips for efficient learning, 5 Python cheat sheets, and 1 accurate way to measure your coding skills. 13,000 Python students have already improved their coding skills on our puzzle-based learning academy Finxter.com.



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As you work through Coffee Break Python, your Python expertise will grow—one coffee at a time. You will train wildly important Python topics such as

- Arithmetic integer & float division, and modular arithmetic;

- Language branching, loops, keywords, and functions;

- Data integer, float, string, list, set, dictionary, and graph;

- Sequence indexing, concatenation, slicing, and built-in functions;

- Function * default *, arbitrary *, unpacking *, keyword *;

- Set lambda, filter, map, and intersection functions; and

- recursion, Fibonacci, Bsearch, sorting, guess & check, and graph traversal.



As a bonus, you will track your individual Python coding skill level throughout the book.



To get the most out of this book, you should be slightly beyond beginner-level in Python—e.g., you have already experience with another programming language, are a professional engineer, or  a student.

So how do you spend your Coffee Break? Python!

Genres: Nonfiction

274 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 16, 2018

Reviews

[Jayanth · Rating 5 out of 5]

I picked up this book to form a habit. In contrast to a text book approach where each skill is taught and tested before moving to the next one, this book throws a puzzle at you and teaches you through testing. As the name suggests, the puzzles are small and thoughtful enough to each occupy a coffee break. I thoroughly enjoyed the format. I was initially hooked for the instant gratification from getting a puzzle right but eventually I started liking the book for the reasoning around each puzzle and importance of syntactic and semantic skills. With an Elo score of ~1800, this book has made be little more confident about my coding skills.
I've recently learnt that retrieval and random practice makes one a better learner and this book is useful for these reasons and more.

[David · Rating 4 out of 5]

A good selection of exercises in Python that covers a broad spectrum of micro-concepts. It's also good to see a strong focus on algorithms among those exercises and follow-up explanations for each solution. The overview of Python prior to the exercises is fairly brief but hey, the language is comparatively simpler than most. The biggest knock is a mild "infomercial" tone to the whole experience and a "if you like this you'll like signing up for a membership online" minor micro-agenda present throughout. I do believe the author is genuine, that he knows the language well and he is a good communicator, but it's just natural to be a bit cautious and mildly resistant to anyone peddling such high-confidence in engineering.

[Oscar Esparza · Rating 5 out of 5]

Basic to build a solid foundation

Great book for beginners.Also, I found useful ideas to apply on my daily routine. Recommended to build a solid foundation.