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Learning Python

You're reading from  Learning Python

Product type Book
Published in Dec 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783551712
Pages 442 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Fabrizio Romano Fabrizio Romano
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Table of Contents (20) Chapters close

Learning Python
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgements
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Introduction and First Steps – Take a Deep Breath 2. Built-in Data Types 3. Iterating and Making Decisions 4. Functions, the Building Blocks of Code 5. Saving Time and Memory 6. Advanced Concepts – OOP, Decorators, and Iterators 7. Testing, Profiling, and Dealing with Exceptions 8. The Edges – GUIs and Scripts 9. Data Science 10. Web Development Done Right 11. Debugging and Troubleshooting 12. Summing Up – A Complete Example Index

Enter the Python


Python is the marvelous creature of Guido Van Rossum, a Dutch computer scientist and mathematician who decided to gift the world with a project he was playing around with over Christmas 1989. The language appeared to the public somewhere around 1991, and since then has evolved to be one of the leading programming languages used worldwide today.

I started programming when I was 7 years old, on a Commodore VIC 20, which was later replaced by its bigger brother, the Commodore 64. The language was BASIC. Later on, I landed on Pascal, Assembly, C, C++, Java, JavaScript, Visual Basic, PHP, ASP, ASP .NET, C#, and other minor languages I cannot even remember, but only when I landed on Python, I finally had that feeling that you have when you find the right couch in the shop. When all of your body parts are yelling, "Buy this one! This one is perfect for us!"

It took me about a day to get used to it. Its syntax is a bit different from what I was used to, and in general, I very rarely worked with a language that defines scoping with indentation. But after getting past that initial feeling of discomfort (like having new shoes), I just fell in love with it. Deeply. Let's see why.

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Published in: Dec 2015 Publisher: Packt ISBN-13: 9781783551712
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