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The Python Workshop Second Edition

You're reading from The Python Workshop Second Edition Write Python code to solve challenging real-world problems

Product type Paperback

Published in Nov 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781804610619

Length 600 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

Python

Concepts

Programming Language

Authors (5):

Mario Corchero Jiménez

Andrew Bird

Corey Wade

Graham Lee

Dr. Lau Cher Han

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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Preface

1. Chapter 1: Python Fundamentals – Math, Strings, Conditionals, and Loops

2. Chapter 2: Python Data Structures FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 3: Executing Python – Programs, Algorithms, and Functions

4. Chapter 4: Extending Python, Files, Errors, and Graphs

5. Chapter 5: Constructing Python – Classes and Methods

6. Chapter 6: The Standard Library

7. Chapter 7: Becoming Pythonic

8. Chapter 8: Software Development

9. Chapter 9: Practical Python – Advanced Topics

10. Chapter 10: Data Analytics with pandas and NumPy

11. Chapter 11: Machine Learning

12. Chapter 12: Deep Learning with Python

13. Chapter 13: The Evolution of Python – Discovering New Python Features

14. Index

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Summary

In this chapter, you have seen some of the tools and skills needed to transition from being a Python programmer to a Python software engineer. You have learned how to collaborate with other programmers using Git and GitHub, how to manage dependencies and virtual environments with conda, and how to deploy Python applications using Docker. We have explored multiprocessing and investigated tools and techniques used for improving the performance of your Python code. These new skills leave you better equipped to handle the messy real world of collaborative teams working on large problems in production environments. These skills are not just academic, but are essential tools for any aspiring Python developer to familiarize themselves with.

The next chapter will introduce the part of the book dedicated to using Python for data science. You will learn about popular libraries for working with numerical data and techniques for importing, exploring, cleaning up, and analyzing real...

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Authors (5)

Wade

Wade

Corey Wade, M.S. Mathematics, M.F.A. Writing & Consciousness, is the founder and director of Berkeley Coding Academy where he teaches Machine Learning and AI to teens from all over the world. Additionally, Corey chairs the Math Department at Berkeley Independent Study where he has received multiple grants to run after-school coding programs to help bridge the tech skills gap. Additional experiences include teaching Natural Language Processing with Hello World, developing Data Science curricula with Pathstream, and publishing statistics and machine learning models with Towards Data Science, Springboard, and Medium.

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Lee

Lee

Joanna Lee has more than 8 years of experience in game development. She has designed and programmed various video games. She first started working with Unreals game engine in 2005 and is very excited to be able to author a book about the newest Unreal Engine 4. She has also worked with many other engines as well as reviewed books and videos on Cry Engine 4.

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Dr. Lau Cher Han

Dr. Lau Cher Han

Dr Lau Cher Han is a Chief data scientist, and currently the CEO of LEAD, an institution that provides programs on data science, full stack web development, and digital marketing. Well-versed in programming languages: JavaScript, Python, C# and so on he is experienced in web frameworks: MEAN Stack, ASP.NET, Python Django and is multilingual, speaking English, Chinese, Bahasa fluently. His knowledge of Chinese spreads even into its dialects: Hokkien, Teochew, and Cantonese.

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Bird

Bird

Andrew Bird is the data and analytics manager of Vesparum Capital. He leads the software and data science teams at Vesparum, overseeing full-stack web development in Django/React. He is an Australian actuary (FIAA, CERA) who has previously worked with Deloitte Consulting in financial services. Andrew also currently works as a full-stack developer for Draftable Pvt. Ltd. He manages the ongoing development of the donation portal for the Effective Altruism Australia website on a voluntary basis. Andrew has also co-written one of our bestselling titles, "The Python Workshop".

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Mario Corchero Jiménez

Mario Corchero Jiménez

Mario Corchero Jiménez is a senior software developer at Bloomberg. He leads the Python infrastructure team in London, enabling the company to work effectively in Python and building company-wide libraries and tools. His professional experience is mainly in C++ and Python, and he has contributed some patches to multiple Python open source projects. He is a PSF fellow, having received the Q3 2018 PSF Community Award, is vice president of Python Espaa (the Python Spain association), and has served as Chair of PyLondinium, PyConES17, and PyCon Charlas at PyCon 2018. Mario is passionate about the Python community, open source, and inner source.

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