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Dancing with Python

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

1.13 Summary

In my coding career, I have used dozens of programming languages and created several. [AXM] When I have a new problem to solve or am considering a new project, I research how languages have evolved and improved. For each language I investigate, I ask myself,

“can this language do what I have in mind?”,
“can this language do what I want better than the others?”, and
“what are the special features and idioms within the language that enable me to produce an elegant result?”.

This chapter introduced many of the ideas widely used today in languages for coding. It showed that you could think about features and functionality separately from what one specific language provides. In the next chapter, we get concrete and see how Python implements these and other concepts.

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Authors (1)

Robert S. Sutor

Robert S. Sutor

Robert S. Sutor has been a technical leader and executive in the IT industry for over 40 years. More than two decades of that were spent in IBM Research in Yorktown Heights, New York USA. During his time there, he worked on and led efforts in symbolic mathematical computation, mathematical programming languages, optimization, AI, blockchain, and quantum computing. He is the author of Dancing with Qubits: How quantum computing works and how it can change the world and Dancing with Python: Learn Python software development from scratch and get started with quantum computing, also with Packt. He is the published co-author of several research papers and the book Axiom: The Scientific Computation System with the late Richard D. Jenks. Sutor was an IBM executive on the software side of the business in areas including Java web application servers, emerging industry standards, software on Linux, mobile, and open source. He was the Vice President of Corporate Development and, later, Chief Quantum Advocate, at Infleqtion, a quantum computing and quantum sensing company based in Boulder, Colorado USA. He is currently an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University at Buffalo, New York, USA. He is a theoretical mathematician by training, has a Ph.D. from Princeton University, and an undergraduate degree from Harvard College. He started coding when he was 15 and has used most of the programming languages that have come along.

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