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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