• Title: Learn Python Programming
• Author(s) Fabrizio Romano
• Publisher: Packt Publishing; 2nd Revised edition; eBook (Free Edition)
• Permission: Free eBook by the Publisher (Packt)
• Paperback: 442 pages
• eBook: HTML
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1788996666
• ISBN-13: 978-1788996662
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Book Description

Learning Python has a dynamic and varied nature. It reads easily and lays a good foundation for those who are interested in digging deeper. It has a practical and example-oriented approach through which both the introductory and the advanced topics are explained. Starting with the fundamentals of programming and Python, it ends by exploring very different topics, like GUIs, web apps and data science. The book takes you all the way to creating a fully fledged application.

Python is an easy to use and easy to learn programming language that is freely available on Macintosh, Windows, or Linux computers. So once you learn Python you can use it for the rest of your career without needing to purchase any software.

The book begins by exploring the essentials of programming, data structures and teaches you how to manipulate them. It then moves on to controlling the flow of a program and writing reusable and error proof code. You will then explore different programming paradigms that will allow you to find the best approach to any situation, and also learn how to perform performance optimization as well as effective debugging. Throughout, the book steers you through the various types of applications, and it concludes with a complete mini website built upon all the concepts that you learned.

About the Authors

• Fabrizio Romano currently works as a team leader for Sohonet Ltd, a company that is raising the bar in technology around media production. He has delivered talks on Teaching Python and TDD with Python at the last two editions of EuroPython and at Skillsmatter in London.

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• Python Programming
• Data Analysis and Data Mining
• Data Structures and Algorithms
• Computational Complexity

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