By Zed A. Shaw

Learn Python The Hard Way Version 0.2 Released

I've been having a blast writing Learn Python The Hard Way and I'm already up to Exercise 16. I just finished closing tons of tickets and made all the edits people submitted so I decided to bump the verion number up to 0.2.

This release you can get the PDF from http://learnpythonthehardway.com/ and I've close quite a few tickets but keep putting them in.

Here's the big list of things I've fixed:

  • Officially changed the '#' character from pound to octothorpe.
  • Cleaned up a ton of little edits and fixes (thanks folks!).
  • Finally got the exercise numbering and other number straight.
  • Wrote a placeholder for exercise 27 where I start to introduce logic.
  • Got the exercises to bring the reader to where they're finally reading and writing files.
  • Created the book's project web site using fossil to host it.
  • Declared the book free to distribute as long as you don't charge for it or alter it.

Fossil held up well against a pretty heavy onslaught of traffic. I'm now just gonna keep writing exercises at a pace of about 3 a day and fixing tickets people put in.

Thanks for the help so far and the intelligent comments on HN.