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

Product type Paperback

Published in Aug 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801077859

Length 744 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Python

Concepts

Programming Language

Author (1):

Robert S. Sutor

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Table of Contents (29) Chapters

Preface

1. Chapter 1: Doing the Things That Coders Do

2. Part I: Getting to Know Python FREE CHAPTER

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

A.8 Visual Studio Code

An IDE is an Integrated Development Environment. These tools are sometimes dedicated to one programming language, but I think the best offer uniform and consistent support for several languages. Visual Studio Code is the IDE I use now, and it is my favorite by far. I wrote the content for this book using Visual Studio Code. [VSC]

Figure A.5 is a screenshot of Visual Studio Code editing the file in Appendix C. The text has color syntax highlighting, and the editor has features like code completion and automatic indentation. You can see a directory listing of some of the content files for this book on the left. The editor displayed the context menu when I right-clicked on sorted in the code.

From within Visual Studio Code, you can create, run, and debug your code. The “integrated...