Dead Simple Python

Foreword

“Dead simple concurrency? Seriously?”

That was my reaction when I first heard about this book. Python in general is a wonderful language and easier to grok than most, but many (or even most) things in the world of programming are still anything but “dead simple.”

But then Jason explained what he had in mind in writing a book with those two words in the title. It’s not dead simple in the sense of being a dumbed-down book that presents Python in overly simplistic terms. Rather, it’s dead simple in the sense of being a book that people will read and say, “This topic initially seemed hard to understand, but now that you’ve explained it, it’s really obvious to me.” Having studied and taught coding in general and Python in particular for ...