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title: 'Automate the boring stuff: Chapter 0 – Introduction'
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This is a great book. Lots of amazing coders started out with it. You don't need to read the whole thing, but it is generally very very useful.

https://automatetheboringstuff.com/2e/chapter0/

## IMPORTANT

We follow PEP8 naming conventions. Automate the boaring stuff DOES NOT. All of your projects need to follow this naming convention:

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/#prescriptive-naming-conventions