Eric Matthes

Python Crash Course teaches in two halves, which is why it works: fundamentals first, then three complete projects, an arcade game, a data visualisation, and a deployed web application.

Matthes taught high school science and mathematics for years and the pedagogy shows, particularly in how errors are introduced deliberately so a beginner learns to read a traceback.

It has been through three editions and is one of the few programming books that assumes no prior experience and still gets the reader to something running on the internet.