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Automate the Boring Stuff with Python Al Sweigart. 2015. No Starch Press (https://www.nostarch.com). 479 pages.
CSQE Body of Knowledge area: III.E.4. Software development tools
This book's introduction says that "the demand for people who can code has skyrocketed" and points to resources (that is, books, tutorials, and boot camps) designed to "turn ambitious beginners into software engineers." It then states that, "This book is not for those people. It's for everyone else." It's for people who do not do (or intend to do) software development for a living but need to "automate simple tasks." As such, it is "a guide for beginners," not "a reference manual," though it is a very large book. However, this is because it has extensive examples of many common tasks and takes a very incremental approach to showing one how to automate these.
The first 142 pages (six chapters forming Part I...