Learning Python
Subtitle: Learn to code like a professional with Python – an open source, versatile, and powerful programming language
Publisher: Packt; Packt Publishing
Published: December 2015
Format: eBook
Number of pages: 442
ISBN-13: 9781783551712
Description: 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.
Table of contents: title: 1: INTRODUCTION AND FIRST STEPS – TAKE A DEEP BREATH; title: 2: BUILT-IN DATA TYPES; title: 3: ITERATING AND MAKING DECISIONS; title: 4: FUNCTIONS, THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF CODE; title: 5: SAVING TIME AND MEMORY; title: 6: ADVANCED CONCEPTS – OOP, DECORATORS, AND ITERATORS; title: 7: TESTING, PROFILING, AND DEALING WITH EXCEPTIONS; title: 8: THE EDGES – GUIS AND SCRIPTS; title: 9: DATA SCIENCE; title: 10: WEB DEVELOPMENT DONE RIGHT; title: 11: DEBUGGING AND TROUBLESHOOTING; title: 12: SUMMING UP – A COMPLETE EXAMPLE