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Dancing with Python

You're reading from   Dancing with Python Learn to code with Python and Quantum Computing

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801077859
Length 744 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Robert S. Sutor Robert S. Sutor
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Table of Contents (29) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Chapter 1: Doing the Things That Coders Do FREE CHAPTER 2. Part I: Getting to Know Python
3. Chapter 2: Working with Expressions 4. Chapter 3: Collecting Things Together 5. Chapter 4: Stringing You Along 6. Chapter 5: Computing and Calculating 7. Chapter 6: Defining and Using Functions 8. Chapter 7: Organizing Objects into Classes 9. Chapter 8: Working with Files 10. PART II: Algorithms and Circuits
11. Chapter 9: Understanding Gates and Circuits 12. Chapter 10: Optimizing and Testing Your Code 13. Chapter 11: Searching for the Quantum Improvement 14. PART III: Advanced Features and Libraries
15. Chapter 12: Searching and Changing Text 16. Chapter 13: Creating Plots and Charts 17. Chapter 14: Analyzing Data 18. Chapter 15: Learning, Briefly 19. References
20. Other Books You May Enjoy
21. Index
Appendices
1. Appendix A: Tools 2. Appendix B: Staying Current 3. Appendix C: The Complete UniPoly Class
4. Appendix D: The Complete Guitar Class Hierarchy
5. Appendix E: Notices 6. Appendix F: Production Notes

Doing the Things That Coders Do

Talk is cheap. Show me the code.

—Linus Torvalds

There is not just one way to code, and there is not only one programming language in which to do it. A recent survey by the analyst firm RedMonk listed the top one hundred languages in widespread use in 2021. [PLR]

Nevertheless, there are common ideas about processing and computing with information across programming languages, even if their expressions and implementations vary. In this chapter, I introduce those ideas and data structures. I don’t focus on how we write everything in any particular language but instead discuss the concepts. I do include some examples from other languages to show you the variation of expression.

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