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Illustrated Guide to Python 3: A Complete Walkthrough of Beginning Python with Unique Illustrations Showing how Python Really Works. Now covering Python 3.6
Introducing Your Guide to Learning Python
Illustrated Guide to Learning Python is designed to bring developers and others who are anxious to learn Python up to speed quickly. Not only does it teach the basics of syntax, but it condenses years of experience. You will learn warts, gotchas, best practices and hints that have been gleaned through the years in days. You will hit the ground running and running in the right way.
Learn Python Quickly
Python is an incredible language. It is powerful and applicable in many areas. It is used for automation of simple or complex tasks, numerical processing, web development, interactive games and more. Whether you are a programmer coming to Python from another language, managing Python programmers or wanting to learn to program, it makes sense to cut to the chase and learn Python the right way. You could scour blogs, websites and much longer tomes if you have time. Treading on Python lets you learn the hints and tips to be Pythonic quickly.
Packed with Useful Hints and Tips
You'll learn the best practices without wasting time searching or trying to force Python to be like other languages. I've collected all the gems I've gleaned over years of writing and teaching Python for you.
A No Nonsense Guide to Mastering Basic Python
Python is a programming language that lets you work more quickly and integrate your systems more effectively. You can learn to use Python and see almost immediate gains in productivity and lower maintenance costs.
What you will learn:
Distilled best practices and tips
How interpreted languages work
Using basic types such as Strings, Integers, and Floats
Best practices for using the interpreter during development
The difference between mutable and immutable data
Sets, Lists, and Dictionaries, and when to use each
Gathering keyboard input
How to define a class
Looping constructs
Handling Exceptions in code
Slicing sequences
Creating modular code
Using libraries
Laying out code
Community prescribed conventions
Illustrated Guide to Learning Python is designed to bring developers and others who are anxious to learn Python up to speed quickly. Not only does it teach the basics of syntax, but it condenses years of experience. You will learn warts, gotchas, best practices and hints that have been gleaned through the years in days. You will hit the ground running and running in the right way.
Learn Python Quickly
Python is an incredible language. It is powerful and applicable in many areas. It is used for automation of simple or complex tasks, numerical processing, web development, interactive games and more. Whether you are a programmer coming to Python from another language, managing Python programmers or wanting to learn to program, it makes sense to cut to the chase and learn Python the right way. You could scour blogs, websites and much longer tomes if you have time. Treading on Python lets you learn the hints and tips to be Pythonic quickly.
Packed with Useful Hints and Tips
You'll learn the best practices without wasting time searching or trying to force Python to be like other languages. I've collected all the gems I've gleaned over years of writing and teaching Python for you.
A No Nonsense Guide to Mastering Basic Python
Python is a programming language that lets you work more quickly and integrate your systems more effectively. You can learn to use Python and see almost immediate gains in productivity and lower maintenance costs.
What you will learn:
Distilled best practices and tips
How interpreted languages work
Using basic types such as Strings, Integers, and Floats
Best practices for using the interpreter during development
The difference between mutable and immutable data
Sets, Lists, and Dictionaries, and when to use each
Gathering keyboard input
How to define a class
Looping constructs
Handling Exceptions in code
Slicing sequences
Creating modular code
Using libraries
Laying out code
Community prescribed conventions
256 pages, Paperback
Published November 3, 2017
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January 4, 2020
A great manual to just hand out to beginners, students, people who need to get some readable Python-starter material.
It starts out with the 'how to install', 'how to switch on', 'how to save work' and 'how to run' advice and then proceeds to the more fleshed out stuff. Lovely, huh?
The explanations of how all the stuff is supposed to work and hang together are pretty much ingeniuos and rarely met in similar manuals.
However basic, this is precisely the book to give to someone who wants to know more and hasn't got yet too much experience with Python.
It starts out with the 'how to install', 'how to switch on', 'how to save work' and 'how to run' advice and then proceeds to the more fleshed out stuff. Lovely, huh?
The explanations of how all the stuff is supposed to work and hang together are pretty much ingeniuos and rarely met in similar manuals.
However basic, this is precisely the book to give to someone who wants to know more and hasn't got yet too much experience with Python.
March 27, 2024
Great basic reference guide for common error messages. Other guides are just “create create create!” but this covers the more realistic scenarios of “wtf did I just do it’s not working” 😂
Naming conventions! This part is underrated.
Naming conventions! This part is underrated.
July 31, 2019
Um ótimo livro, para conhecer mais sobre Python tanto pra quem esta ainda está aprendendo, ou que já consegue se virar mais ainda tem muita coisa pra aprender ou que não sabe(como eu).
O livro tinha muitas partes que eu já sabia, como um livro básico, mas o interessante é pegar essas partes e aprofundar e perceber os detalhes da linguagem, e descobrir partes que você não sabia, ou deixou passar despercebido.
O livro tinha muitas partes que eu já sabia, como um livro básico, mas o interessante é pegar essas partes e aprofundar e perceber os detalhes da linguagem, e descobrir partes que você não sabia, ou deixou passar despercebido.
January 29, 2019
If you want to understand or start programming, even simple scripting, but have no knowledge, this is the book to start with.
February 16, 2019
Great if you are just starting with Python. This book provides a solid base. If you are more experienced, you maybe better offer referencing a more advanced book
May 10, 2019
I read this book while on a backseat driving through grand canyon. (I've been there too many times) Its simple and beneficial. I learned a few things despite thinking I was already 'intermediate'
January 22, 2020
This book covers a lot and is aimed towards the beginner of Python. The exercises are interesting, approachable and presented for the text introduced.
June 14, 2020
Very good book to start the path of learning programming.
March 31, 2021
A not-too-long, good introduction to Python. I was struggling finding a book that would
March 23, 2022
A great book for solidifying the fundamentals.
January 8, 2023
Used it as an afternoon refresher after a couple month's hiatus. Quite useful in this way.
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