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. Treading on Python lets you 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.

What you will learn

• Distilled best practices and tips
• How interpretted 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

@__mharrison__

Matt Harrison has over 10 years Python experience across the domains of search, build management and testing, business intelligence and storage.

He has presented and taught tutorials at conferences such as SCALE, PyCON and OSCON as well as local user groups. In addition he has been a private tutor teaching programming to teenagers as well as retired folk. The structure of this book is based off of his first hand experience teaching Python to many individuals.

Matt occasionally tweets useful Python related information at __mharrison__ and Matt blogs at hairysun.com