Introducing Python - Bill Lubanovic (2014) [PDF] torrent

Introducing Python - Modern Computing in Simple Packages

by Bill Lubanovic

# Publisher : O'Reilly Media
# Published : Nov 2014
# Pages : 478
# Format : PDF


Easy to understand and fun to read, Introducing Python is ideal for
beginning programmers as well as those new to the language. Author
Bill Lubanovic takes you from the basics to more involved and varied
topics, mixing tutorials with cookbook-style code recipes to explain
concepts in Python 3. End-of-chapter exercises help you practice what
you’ve learned.


You’ll gain a strong foundation in the language, including best
practices for testing, debugging, code reuse, and other development
tips. This book also shows you how to use Python for applications in
business, science, and the arts, using various Python tools and open
source packages.

- Learn simple data types, and basic math and text operations
- Use data-wrangling techniques with Python’s built-in data structures
- Explore Python code structure, including the use of functions
- Write large programs in Python, with modules and packages
- Dive into objects, classes, and other object-oriented features
- Examine storage from flat files to relational databases and NoSQL
- Use Python to build web clients, servers, APIs, and services
- Manage system tasks such as programs, processes, and threads
- Understand the basics of concurrency and network programming


Author
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Bill Lubanovic has developed software with UNIX since 1977, GUIs since
1981, databases since 1990, and the Web since 1993. At a startup named
Intran in 1982, he developed MetaForm -- one of the first commercial
GUIs (before the Mac or Windows), on one of the first graphic
workstations. At Northwest Airlines in the early 1990s, he wrote a
graphic yield management system that generated millions of dollars in
revenue; got the company on the Internet; and wrote its first Internet
marketing test. He co-founded an ISP (Tela) in 1994, and a web
development company (Mad Scheme) in 1999. Recently, he developed
core services and distributed systems with a remote team for a
Manhattan startup. Currently, he's integrating OpenStack services for
a supercomputer company. He enjoys life in the Sangre de Sasquatch
mountains of Minnesota with his wonderful wife Mary, children Tom and
Karin, and cats Inga, Chester, and Lucy.

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