Python Basics
Python Basics
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Get Python 101 (2nd Edition) and its sequel, Python 201: Intermediate Python
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Python 101
2nd Edition
The second edition of Python 101 is completely rewritten from the ground up. In this book, you will learn the Python programming language and lots more.
This book is split up into four sections:
- The Python Language
- Intermediate Topics
- Creating Sample Applications
- Distributing Your Code
Following is how it will break down in more detail:
Part I - The Python Language
- 01 - Installation
- 02 - Python editors
- 03 - Python style guide / comment rules
- 04 - Integers and floats
- 05 - Lists
- 06 - Tuples
- 07 - Dictionaries
- 08 - Sets
- 09 - Strings
- 10 - Boolean
- 11 - Conditional statements
- 12 - Loops
- 13 - Comprehensions
- 14 - Exception Handling
- 15 - Files
- 16 - Imports
- 17 - Functions
- 18 - Classes
In Part 2 - Intermediate Topics, you will then learn about some intermediate topics, such as:
- Introspection
- Pip
- Python virtual environments
- Threading
- Multiprocessing
- Debugging
- Decorators
- Profiling
- Testing
- Version Control (git)
In Part 3 - Creating Sample Applications, you will learn how to write sample applications:
- How to create a command line application (argparse)
- How to parse XML
- How to parse JSON
- How to Scrape a website
- How to Work with CSV files
- How to work with a database (sqlite)
- How to Create an Excel document
- How to Generate a PDF
Finally in Part 4 you will learn how distribute your code as an executable and as source.
Python 201
Intermediate Python
Python 201 is the sequel to my first book, Python 101. If you already know the basics of Python and now you want to go to the next level, then this is the book for you! This book is for intermediate level Python programmers only. There won't be any beginner chapters here. This book is based on Python 3.
The book will be broken up into five parts. Here's how:
Part I - Intermediate Modules
Chapter 1 - The argparse module
Chapter 2 - The collections module
Chapter 3 - The contextlib module (Context Managers)
Chapter 4 - The functools module (Function overloading, caching, etc)
Chapter 5 - All about imports
Chapter 6 - The importlib module
Chapter 7 - The itertools module
Chapter 8 - The re module (An Intro to Regex in Python)
Chapter 9 - The typing module (Type Hinting)
Part II - Odds and Ends
Chapter 10 - generators / iterators
Chapter 11 - map, filter, reduce
Chapter 12 - unicode
Chapter 13 - benchmarking
Chapter 14 - encryption
Chapter 15 - Connecting to databases
Chapter 16 - super
Chapter 17 - descriptors (magic methods)
Chapter 18 - Scope (local, global and the new non_local)
Part III - Web
Chapter 19 - Web scraping
Chapter 20 - Working with web APIs
Chapter 21 - ftplib
Chapter 22 - urllib
Part IV - Testing
Chapter 23 - Doctest
Chapter 24 - unittest
Chapter 25 - mock
Chapter 26 - coverage.py
Part V - Concurrency
Chapter 27 - The asyncio module
Chapter 28 - The threading module
Chapter 29 - The multiprocessing module
Chapter 30 - The concurrent.futures module
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