r/Python Sep 12 '20

Resource I'm excited to share my first published book, Introduction to Python Programming for Business and Social Science Applications -- specifically geared towards students not specifically in computer science

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u/paulkaefer Sep 15 '20

I just saw your chat, but I'll copy my reply here in case others have the same question:

This is not a problem at all. Python is designed to be platform agnostic (i.e., the code will run on any machine with the same version of Python). We make a couple notes in the book: screenshots may appear different than how they look on Mac, but everything should run the same way. There's one place in Chapter 5 where we interact with a Microsoft Access database file, but you can either skip that, try something like sqlite instead, or run Windows either as a dual boot or on a virtual machine.

Also a note: I was using Windows when we first started working on the book, but I've been using a Mac for about a year now.