The book is an appendix to the course "Introduction to Computational Thinking and Data Science" by MITx 6.00.02x, as taught by MIT on the edX platform. It is not a book for an introduction to Python, although it starts from the basics and goes along with the also online course on edX "Introduction to computer programming with Python" 6.00.1x, but very quickly it moves on to the second course I mentioned first. So if someone wants to learn the language, they can first see 6.00.1x without necessarily having the book or learning the basics of the language from another more introductory book or some other video series, and then if they want to delve deeper (more into the science using this specific language and not the language itself) they can get the book and continue with the second course. In conclusion, my evaluation concerns the combination of the course on the platform with this specific book and not the book separately.

The translated product review is as follows:

The translated book says on the back that it does not teach Python (but they do not inform the potential buyer).

This book is not for Python (although you will learn Python) nor is it a programming book (although you will learn programming). It is demanding and extremely readable - an introductory book for computational problem-solving.

That's what the book says. On the back of the last page - something they don't mention in the product description on online stores, nor on the official website of the publisher.

In the preface, it says that numerous technical, computational, and syntactical errors were discovered (but from what I understood, they were not corrected?).

The book will not teach you Python; it has programming errors, such as missing parentheses in a simple print command.

For example:

print what are you doing now

Instead, it should say print (what are you doing now)

For example, a command in the interactive Python environment, IDLE:

You enter:

print what are you doing

SyntaxError: Missing parentheses in call to print

It has errors in the examples and minimal explanations for the code.

Even compared to the English book, which has the same characteristics, it will only waste your time and confuse you even more. Stay away.

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Although I initially gave it 2 stars elsewhere, I regret it. Useless book