Review

• Author: @richardanderson001
• Repo: dabeaz-course/python-mastery
• Title: First review of python-mastery, requesting more!

This is my first review of David Beazley’s trending “Advanced Python Mastery” repo.

Summary

An exercise-driven course on Advanced Python Programming that was battle-tested several hundred times on the corporate-training circuit for more than a decade. Written by David Beazley, author of the Python Cookbook, 3rd Edition (O’Reilly) and Python Distilled (Addison-Wesley). Released under a Creative Commons license. Free of ads, tracking, pop-ups, newsletters, and AI.

Dabeaz is David Beazley, a computer scientist, educator, and researcher with more than 35 years of experience. Dave has been most visible in the Python community where he has created various software packages, given conference talks, tutorials, and is known as the author of Python Distilled (Addison-Wesley), the Python Essential Reference (Addison-Wesley), and the Python Cookbook (O’Reilly Media). He supports this work by offering a variety of advanced computer science and programming courses.

Stats

3.1k stars, 21 watching, 320 forks

Pros

• Contains data, exercises, and solutions all in one place
• Creative Commons license

Cons

• not looking to expand course content with new topics
• could use a repo-reviews badge!

Support

Currently it doesn’t look like there is any way to sponsor or support the authors.

Questions

I would love to hear about any user experiences who are further through the material than I am.