Chapter 15. Next Steps

After studying the Python basics, what's next? Each developer's journey will vary, based on the general architecture of the application that they're going to build. In this chapter, we'll look at four kinds of Python applications. We'll look at command-line interface (CLI) applications in some depth. We'll look briefly at graphical user interface (GUI) applications. There are a number of graphics libraries and a number of frameworks that we might use for this; it's difficult to address all of the alternatives.

Web server applications often involve a sophisticated web framework that handles the standardized overheads. Our Python code will plug into this framework. As with GUI applications, there are several commonly used frameworks. We'll look quickly at a few common features of web frameworks. We'll also look at the big data context as epitomized by the Hadoop server's streaming interface.

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