Welcome to Python 101! I wrote this book to help you learn Python 3. It is not meant to be an exhaustive reference book. Instead, the object is to get you acquainted with the building blocks of Python so that you can actually write something useful yourself. A lot of programming textbooks only teach you the language, but do not go much beyond that. I will endeavour to not only get you up to speed on the basics, but also to show you how to create useful programs. Now you may be wondering why just learning the basics isn’t enough. In my experience, when I get finished reading an introductory text, I want to then create something, but I don’t know how! I’ve got the learning, but not the glue to get from point A to point B. I think it’s important to not only teach you the basics, but also cover intermediate material. Thus, this book will be split into five parts: