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A document that the NSA uses for teaching Python

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It's not that great. You can find much better training materials for beginners all over the place.

Interesting, I don't disagree, but what better alternative would you suggest?

Automate Boring Stuff with Python is a great book to start

Re: A document that the NSA uses for teaching Python

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I adore governments' classification system which can state things are classified as 'unclassified', and by extension to hijack the meaning of 'classified' to mean 'top secret'.

On a topic relevant note, from the original twitter feed [0] which announced/released this (as part of FOIA) a helpful person also mentioned a lightweight download of the ?same document[1] (18MB vs 118MB).

[0] https://twitter.com/chris_swenson/status/1225836060938125313...

[1] https://deeb.io/wrdprs/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/comp3321_r...

Also, I notice in the top left corner there's a handy little Doc ID: 6689691. It'd be interesting if if it were possible to FOIA all those Doc ID's.

Re: A document that the NSA uses for teaching Python

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Interesting, I don't disagree, but what better alternative would you suggest?

Automate Boring Stuff with Python is a great book to start

That book is an introduction to Python libraries, not programming and barely even automation.
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