Illustrated Guide to Python 3 (Illustrated Guide to Python 3)
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Illustrated Guide to Python 3

A complete walkthrough of beginning Python with unique illustrations showing how Python really works

About the Book

Learn Python Quickly 

Python is an incredible language. It is powerful and applicable in many areas. It is used for automation of simple or complex tasks, numerical processing, web development, interactive games and more. Whether you are a programmer coming to Python from another language, managing Python programmers or wanting to learn to program, it makes sense to cut to the chase and learn Python the right way. You could scour blogs, websites and much longer tomes if you have time. You will learn the hints and tips to be Pythonic quickly. 

Packed with Useful Hints and Tips 

You'll learn the best practices without wasting time searching or trying to force Python to be like other languages. I've collected all the gems I've gleaned over years of writing and teaching Python for you. A No Nonsense Guide to Mastering Basic Python Python is a programming language that lets you work more quickly and integrate your systems more effectively. You can learn to use Python and see almost immediate gains in productivity and lower maintenance costs. What you will learn:Distilled best practices and tips

  • How interpreted languages work
  • Using basic types such as Strings, Integers, and Floats
  • Best practices for using the interpreter during development
  • The difference between mutable and immutable data
  • Sets, Lists, and Dictionaries, and when to use each
  • Gathering keyboard input
  • How to define a class
  • Looping constructs
  • Handling Exceptions in code
  • Slicing sequences
  • Creating modular code
  • Using libraries
  • Laying out code
  • Community prescribed conventions

About the Author

Matt Harrison
Matt Harrison

Matt Harrison has been using Python since 2000.

He runs MetaSnake, a Python and Data Science consultancy and corporate training shop.  In the past, he has worked across the domains

of search, build management and testing, business intelligence and

storage.

He has presented and taught tutorials at conferences such as Strata, SciPy, SCALE,

PyCON and OSCON as well as local user conferences. The structure and

content of this book is based off of first hand experience teaching

Python to many individuals.

He blogs at hairysun.com and occasionally tweets useful Python

related information at @__mharrison__.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction
  • Why Python?
  • Which Version of Python?
  • The Interpreter
  • Running Programs
  • Writing & Reading Data
  • Variables
  • More about Objects
  • Numbers
  • Strings
  • dir, help, and pdb
  • Strings & Methods
  • Comments, Booleans, and None
  • Conditionals and Whitespace
  • Containers: Lists, Tuples, and Sets
  • Iterations
  • Dictionaries
  • Functions
  • Indexing and Slicing
  • File Input and Output
  • Unicode
  • Classes
  • Subclassing a CLass
  • Exceptions
  • Importing Libraries
  • Libraries: Packages and Modules
  • A Complete Example
  • Onto Bigger and Better

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