Python Basics: A Self-Teaching Introduction

by H Bhasin

This book is designed for use as a primary introduction to Python and can be used as an introductory text or as a resource for professionals in industry. The book has been divided into four sections. The first section deals with the language fundamentals, primarily the procedural part of the language, the second introduces the object-oriented paradigms, the third section deals with data structures, and the last is devoted to advanced topics like handling multi-dimensional arrays using NumPy and visualization using Matplotlib. Regular expressions and multi-threading have been introduced in the appendices.

FEATURES

- Includes sections dedicated to data structures

- Offers in-depth treatment of topics such as classes, inheritance, BST, and NumPy

- Introduces topics like Matplotlib and PIL

- Contains exercises for practice and a review of essential programming concepts

Genres: Technology

450 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 3, 2018

Reviews

[Evan · Rating 2 out of 5]

I am currently reading this book to revisit basics. great coverage on basics. However, the book is filled with typos and wrong example codes. For instance, in the data structure and algorithm chapters: (selection sort) if (a[I] a[j])". It is easy to spot these errors if you have some experience with computer science or programming. But newbies need to stay away from this book unless significant revision is made.

[Thomas Hansen · Rating 2 out of 5]

Book covers the right topics, but is full of errors both in spelling (f.ex. except vs expect) and figure showing insertion in binary search trees aswell as many many errors in text and source. ‘/‘ is refered to as backslash when it should have been ‘\’.
Do not recommend unless a new vastlu improved edition is out..

[David · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book has been the best introduction to python that I've stumbled upon, however there are a lot of errors in the book that has been reported to the publisher, looking forward to the 2nd edition of the book, expected in the end of Q1/beginning of Q2 2019