Python for noob

2 points by pynerds 9 years ago | 5 comments

I want to learn Python for web scraping and some basic website. I am 28 years old. I don't know any programming language. What resources would you suggest?

dec0dedab0de 9 years ago |

It's a bit dated at this point, but I still recommend the google python class as a starting point. https://developers.google.com/edu/python/

hgarg 9 years ago |

Start with this - learnpythonthehardway.org You can read and follow along the book online for free.

thalesfc 9 years ago |

Use selenium.py, it is by far the easiest and scalable solution out there. (believe me I have tried everything, beautiful soup, request.py, scrapy.py ... )

pynerds 9 years ago | |

Any tutorial to learn selenium.py

thalesfc 9 years ago | | |

tutorials

http://thiagomarzagao.com/2013/11/17/webscraping-with-seleni...

videoblog

https://github.com/kjam/python-web-scraping-tutorial/blob/ma...

The first link is a straight following link, and the second one is a 30mimn video that goes through all available Python crawlers.

My recommendation: follow the first one if you are sure to use selenium or watch the second link to check all possibilities.