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Getting Started with Python

You're reading from   Getting Started with Python Understand key data structures and use Python in object-oriented programming

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Product type Course
Published in Feb 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838551919
Length 722 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Benjamin Baka Benjamin Baka
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Fabrizio Romano Fabrizio Romano
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Dusty Phillips Dusty Phillips
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Table of Contents (31) Chapters Close

Title Page
Copyright and Credits
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
1. A Gentle Introduction to Python FREE CHAPTER 2. Built-in Data Types 3. Iterating and Making Decisions 4. Functions, the Building Blocks of Code 5. Files and Data Persistence 6. Principles of Algorithm Design 7. Lists and Pointer Structures 8. Stacks and Queues 9. Trees 10. Hashing and Symbol Tables 11. Graphs and Other Algorithms 12. Searching 13. Sorting 14. Selection Algorithms 15. Object-Oriented Design 16. Objects in Python 17. When Objects Are Alike 18. Expecting the Unexpected 19. When to Use Object-Oriented Programming 20. Python Object-Oriented Shortcuts 21. The Iterator Pattern 22. Python Design Patterns I 23. Python Design Patterns II 24. Testing Object-Oriented Programs 1. Other Books You May Enjoy Index

Who is using Python today?


Not yet convinced? Let's take a very brief look at the companies that are using Python today: Google, YouTube, Dropbox, Yahoo!, Zope Corporation, Industrial Light & Magic, Walt Disney Feature Animation, Blender 3D, Pixar, NASA, the NSA, Red Hat, Nokia, IBM, Netflix, Yelp, Intel, Cisco, HP, Qualcomm, and JPMorgan Chase, to name just a few.

Even games such as Battlefield 2, Civilization IV, and QuArK are implemented using Python.

Python is used in many different contexts, such as system programming, web programming, GUI applications, gaming and robotics, rapid prototyping, system integration, data science, database applications, and much more. Several prestigious universities have also adopted Python as their main language in computer science courses.

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