Build a Bookbot in Python
Build your first local command-line app and use the real tools developers use every day.
Author
Boot.dev Team
Our expert in-house course authors are tenured software developers whose love for coding is only outstripped by a love for crafting addicting lessons.
6 Hours
of content
12 Addicting
lessons
Earn a certificate
of completion
Learn online
at your pace
What will you learn?
You'll build a real command-line application in Python that does data analysis on text files, or rather, entire novels like "Frankenstein", "Moby Dick" or "Pride and Prejudice". You'll be guided through the set up of a professional development environment using Python. This is the perfect first Python project for beginners.
Chapter List
Join 47,929 students in the Build a Bookbot in Python course
Read reviews of their learning experiences
Cheers
Alp
Turkey
A massive jump in difficulty compared to the previous lessons, which is great, because it really pushes you to try harder. Sure the difficultly spike is quite a hard barrier to pass, and might even make most people quit (which was the case for me for a few weeks), and I would argue it is bad from a game design stand point, but it also dips your toes into the unforgivingly cruel real world that we live in, without abandoning the student entirely (thanks to the help of boots)
Chuan Jian Goh
Malaysia
difficult and rewarding!
Chris Fuchs
United States
It was good but there was things that wasn't taught before these lessons and the explanation wasn't the best. Not many good examples to go off of.
Benjamin Johnson
United States
Great course in regards of content, but the necessity of using local storage/terminal can be obnoxius when using multiple devices
Alfredo Arellano
Chile
Reaaly enjoyable and informative project
Vaani Sharma
India
I had a great time racking my brain around implementing everything I learned in learn python and learn linux to complete this guided project. The sudden introduction of a Class was difficult to wrap my brain around and stumped me for awhile before carefully reading the documentation on it. It would be nice if there was feedback on the organization of my personal code to strive for clean code as I have no metric as a beginner. Regardless it was very fun and I look forward to more challenges.
Justin Dorsch
United States
This project is great and provides a good understanding of working with Python for text processing.
Bruno Fialho
Brasil
The report section was a little confusing on how the sort_on helper function worked, but otherwise quite the helpful project to understand python programs used within a CLI.
Connor Springer
United States
Showing 1-9 of 1619
Mediocrity doesn't cut it anymore
The only way to become a great developer is to write a lot of code
Avoid tutorial hell
by writing a ton of code
Stay motivated with
a game-like curriculum
Build portfolio projects
to prove your skills
Delve deeper
into foundational concepts
Learn flexibly online
without interrupting your life
For 1% the price of college
to minimize your financial risk
Frequently asked Questions
Got questions? We've got answers
Yes! It's free to create an account and start learning. You'll get all the immersive and interactive features for free for a few chapters. After that, if you still haven't paid for a membership, you'll be in read-only (content only) mode.
Platform
Languages
Subjects
Support
Pricing
Community
