Good javascript practice. It will seem repetitive, but it forces some common things into memory, and it forces to execute quickly.

Full disclosure: I've been using CodeCademy for a while to learn Javascript when I switched over to this book. So I'm not a total neophyte, but I definitely don't know everything about Javascript. (I also read the last quarter-ish of the book after taking a 6 month coding bootcamp immersive course, so it was all much more familiar.)

Written in small portions, the chapters are manageable in under half an hour for the most part. This means that people could conceivably do a chapter a day and finish the book in about three months. Pretty short when you consider this is teaching you a new language. I will say that the chapter stop being manageable in under half an hour around chapter 50. That's when it got more complicated, at least for me. That said, I think it's still a manageable set of tasks that each chapter sets forth.

The book is particularly invaluable given the corresponding online exercises that the author has devised and made available. It's not quite the gameified approach that CodeCademy takes, but it's close. There's some timed exercises along with some regular ones. I think the way that the exercises are laid out makes sense: he starts you off by asking simple questions, then progresses to slightly more complicated ones while making it so that if you type the correct beginning character, the answer autocompletes. After that, he moves on to even more complicated and sets you a time limit. It's interactive without being overly stressful and the time limits are very reasonable for those with decent to fast typing skills.

What a great guide to learning. This handy book makes learning python super easy with very digestible chapters and great exercises that build on each other and establish a great base for coding knowledge. Really pleased with this book, feel very confident about going on to work on projects with this solid foundation

Enjoyed this book, it has excellent examples, plus the author provides a webpage to practice everything you have read. It took me a LOT of time to go through everything, but it is worth it and of course this book does not cover everything.

The only reason I put three stars due to lack of updated with new JavaScript. And this author still put some Js stuffs in html. My mentor at bootcamp said that kind of learning should be avoided. So eh.

This is a great place to start learning the fundamental syntax of Python. Wish the concepts would come togheter after each large part of the book (e.g. a "functions project" that includes previous chapter knowledge. A final project that includes all the syntax/chapters would be a great addition as well.

Overall great place to start your journey with Python.