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Most-mentioned books in r/Python during 2019

This page ranks books by exact tracked mentions in r/Python within the published source unit for 2019. Counts come from the reconciled subreddit-by-month matrix; a source unit may be a bounded sample.

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Books ranked
38
Tracked mentions in 2019
Sort by upvotes = sum of comment scores on recognized mentions
Cover of Fluent Python #1

Fluent Python

Luciano Ramalho

A Python developer past the syntax stage opens Fluent Python to learn why dunder methods, iterators, and decorators work the way they do.

22 in 2019
Cover of Python Crash Course #2

Python Crash Course

Eric Matthes

A high school teacher gets tired of Python resources that assume too much, so he writes the one that doesn't.

5 in 2019
Cover of Clean Code #3

Clean Code

Robert C. Martin

Robert Martin's case that unreadable functions are a discipline failure, not an inevitability, argued one renamed variable and one extracted method at a time.

3 in 2019
Cover of Effective Python #4

Effective Python

Brett Slatkin

Brett Slatkin's Python style guide gets read cover to cover, while its usual shelf-mate Fluent Python becomes something to scare junior devs with instead.

2 in 2019
Cover of Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn, Keras, and TensorFlow #5

Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn, Keras, and TensorFlow

Aurélien Géron

Aurélien Géron's scikit-learn-to-TensorFlow book that data scientists recommend and interviewers weaponize in the same threads.

2 in 2019
Cover of Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs #6

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

Harold Abelson

Six chapters into Scheme, you're writing an interpreter for a language you invented an hour ago.

2 in 2019
Cover of Domain-Driven Design #7

Domain-Driven Design

Eric Evans

An interviewer asks if you've read Domain-Driven Design, then pivots to recursive Fibonacci when the answer gets complicated.

1 in 2019
Cover of The Design of Everyday Things #8

The Design of Everyday Things

Don Norman

A cognitive scientist argues that when you can't open a door or use a stove, the door and stove are broken — not you.

1 in 2019