TUI-apps VS py_regular_expressions

Hello!

I am pleased to announce a new version of my "CLI text processing with GNU sed" ebook. This book heavily leans on examples to present features one by one. In addition to sed commands and options, regular expressions are also discussed in detail.

Links:

* PDF/EPUB versions: https://learnbyexample.gumroad.com/l/gnu_sed (free for a few days)

* Web version: https://learnbyexample.github.io/learn_gnused/ (always free)

* Markdown source, example files, etc: https://github.com/learnbyexample/learn_gnused

* Interactive TUI app for exercises: https://github.com/learnbyexample/TUI-apps/blob/main/SedExercises

I would highly appreciate it if you'd let me know how you felt about this book. It could be anything from a simple thank you, pointing out a typo, mistakes in code snippets, which aspects of the book worked for you (or didn't!) and so on. Reader feedback is essential and especially so for self-published authors.

Happy learning :)

I also wrote an interactive TUI app based on some of the exercises from the ebook. Reference solutions are provided for both GNU grep and ripgrep.

These days I prefer coding TUI apps using Textual (see my repo https://github.com/learnbyexample/TUI-apps for examples) since I find this framework easier to work with and I don't need full GUI features for my projects.

This year I started updating my existing books and I'm also creating interactive apps. Here's one for Python regex: https://github.com/learnbyexample/TUI-apps/blob/main/PyRegexExercises. Next is grep.

Having an interactive program that automatically loads questions and checks the solution is wonderful to have while learning a topic. I wrote a TUI app that has beginner to advanced level exercises for Python regular expressions. There are more than 100 exercises covering both the builtin re and third-party regex modules.

These exercises have been adapted from my Understanding Python re(gex)? ebook (free to read online).

This new version is a TUI app built with Textual. Previous one was written using `tkinter` [0] and covered only four of the `re` functions.

Now, any valid Python expression is accepted as a solution. Both the builtin `re` and third-party `regex` modules are covered.

These exercises have been adapted from my Understanding Python re(gex)? ebook [1] (free to read online, and PDF/EPUB versions are free till the end of this month).

I'd appreciate your feedback, happy learning :)

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29391107

[1] https://github.com/learnbyexample/py_regular_expressions

Visit https://github.com/learnbyexample/py_regular_expressions for markdown source, example files, exercise solutions, sample chapters and other details related to the book.

Last year, I did a similar project for 75 Python regular expressions exercises: https://github.com/learnbyexample/py_regular_expressions/tre...

That was with Tkinter. I'm planning to update the regex book next year (to add new features like possessive quantifiers and other misc changes). Along with this update, I'll probably make a TUI version and add support for rest of the exercises.

If you are interested in Python regex, here's my tkinter app with 75 interactive exercises: https://github.com/learnbyexample/py_regular_expressions/tre...

This assumes you already know Python regex. If you'd like learn first, see my free ebook: https://learnbyexample.github.io/py_regular_expressions/

I have an entire book dedicated for learning regex from the basics, with hundreds of examples and exercises. I cover both re and third-party regex module. It is free to read online: https://learnbyexample.github.io/py_regular_expressions/

A tkinter GUI that helps you to practice your understanding of regular expressions with 75 exercises: https://github.com/learnbyexample/py_regular_expressions/tree/master/interactive_exercises

https://github.com/learnbyexample/py_regular_expressions/blob/master/py_regex.md.