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Probably. His "Learn Python the Hard Way" was early and influential.

• shanecleveland 5y ago
  This had a huge influence on me. I still have projects running on web.py that stemmed from it.
• jakereps 5y ago
  It's also fairly controversial within the Python dev community. I read this title as a jab at that one, because it's not recommended to follow a lot of the "Hard Way" patterns and practices. It's been quite a few years since I was working in Python exclusively, so I can't recall specifics to point out.
  • Alex3917 5y ago
    > It's also fairly controversial within the Python dev community. I can't speak to the Python book, but his Unix and SQL books are fantastic.
  • maxnoe 5y ago
    He was very hostile towards python 3 for very bad reasons. Telling beginners as late as 2017 that "python3 is such a failure it will kill python". That's not controversial, that's just wrong, especially but not only in hindsight.
• pelagicAustral 5y ago
  I will forever remember what I consider the best marketing tagline in history for selling a coding book "Programming motherfucker, do you speak it?"