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# Genetic Algorithms with Python Paperback – April 29, 2016

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### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Unbelievably Useful Book, but Not for Beginners
*by P***L on January 13, 2019*

I bought GAWP over a year ago, when I was working on a Genetic Algorithm chapter for my book Math Adventures with Python. I've had a lot of experience with Python, so I didn't need a tutorial on strings and variables. If you're new to Python or programming, you might want to start with another book. Sheppard throws the reader into the deep end. But the projects cover all the classics of GA's, like the 8 Queens Puzzle, Magic Squares, Sudoku and the project I was particularly interested in, the Traveling Salesman Problem.Other reviewers have complained about the author's use of Python's unittest module, but it might be the reason his code runs 2 or 3 times faster than mine. It's a great hands-on introduction to testing, as well. Another bonus is Sheppard recommends using Pycharm for an editor.After writing a bunch of code to solve the first problem in the book, Guess the Password, Sheppard takes the code that will just be repeated in every future program and extracts it to a "genetic" file that will be reused, possibly with some modifications, for the rest of the book. This risky move is a stroke of genius, but one that is clearly lost on some reviewers. It's true, the author only includes a handful of graphics and charts in the entire book, and it's not easy to keep track of which function/method goes where at first (or second!).Having said all that, the book contains absolutely indispensable projects for the intermediate programmer interested in really delving into using Genetic Algorithms to solve puzzles and problems. Challenging as it is, I keep going back to this book to work on problems. It's not the type of book you'll only go through once; but you'll keep learning something every time you work on one of its projects. All the code is available in the appendix and online.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ very good!
*by C***C on March 19, 2021*

This was a great book to learn Python as well as genetic algorithms. I thought the problems were very interesting and the code is written so that it gets more sophisticated with each problem. A highly recommend this book if you are looking for some hands-on time with Python and genetic algorithms. There's a lot of problems to solve, making it a great value.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Good book for getting your feet wet with genetic algorithms and python.
*by M***L on March 8, 2018*

I like this book a lot. One of the things I like about it is that the author takes a lot of different examples, and step-by-step teaches you the elements of genetic algorithms, and also improves the algorithms over the course of the book.I'd say if you want to learn genetic algorithms this is certainly a good book. I'll be looking for some more theoretical books to round out my knowledge, but this is a great start for someone who knows python, but isn't super familiar with how genetic algorithms work.One of the things I don't like about the book is that it doesn't actually talk about the overall concept of what genetic algorithms do in a way that makes it super easy to apply to other problems. I do think the point of the step-by-step approach was to give you some of that, but somehow it didn't quite work for me I needed a little bigger picture explanations of the conceptual frameworks behind the code that he uses.But the author does, with each subsequent chapter, add new, more complex concepts and new ways to do mutation and checking fitness, which is great.

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