Mastering Object-Oriented Python - Second Edition

This book is a reference guide you should keep reading all the time. Examples are concise and the topics are arranged in a manner that you can easily adapt to the increasing complexity. If you are a beginner to the object oriented programming then this is a must read. The best part of the book is, you learn structuring the object oriented code to build Blackjack game. While most of the books focus on the technicalities from an abstract point of view, here you know what the end product is and focus on culminating the ingredients. Thanks to the author for writing a wonderful book.

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Pretty good text but code needs to formatted better. Most code has wraparound that makes it hard to read. Page 525 has serious formatting problem on code. However, because of the age of this edition, few are going to buy it now anyway.

I get that it's useful to have an example class used throughout the book. But I think the blackjack-playing class was a little to obscure, it's not really a use case that a real programmer will come across (and gambling and games of gambling are of particularly little interest to me), and having the unicode symbols all over the place for the different suits (♠ ♥ ♣ ♦) instead of text is visually very distracting. I would have rathered follow along with a "real" program, even if its particular use case wasn't one I commonly use. A lot of references are made to the previous Python OOP book written by the author, so I bought it also even though only about 15% of it was new information to me. Despite these caveats, the author knows her stuff very well. Final note: this is a huge tome, extremely thick and difficuly to maneuver and weighs a ton.