Free download Introducing Python: Modern Computing in Simple Packages, 2nd Edition by Bill Lubanovic. Published by O Reilly Media. English | EPUB | 605 Pages | ISBN: 1492051365
Description of Introducing Python
This book is for anybody interested in learning one of the world’s most popular computing languages, regardless of whether you have previously learned any programming.
Easy to understand and fun to read, this updated edition of Introducing Python is ideal for beginning programmers as well as those new to the language.
Author Bill Lubanovic takes you from the basics to more involved and varied topics, mixing tutorials with cookbook-style code recipes to explain concepts in Python 3. End-of-chapter exercises help you practice what you’ve learned.
You’ll gain a strong foundation in the language, including best practices for testing, debugging, code reuse, and other development tips. This book also shows you how to use Python for applications in business, science, and the arts, using various Python tools and open source packages.
It include
- About a hundred more pages, including cat pictures.
- Twice the chapters, each shorter now.
- An early chapter devoted to data types, variables, and names.
- New standard Python features like f-strings.
- New or improved third-party packages.
- New code examples throughout.
- An appendix on basic hardware and software, for new programmers.
- An appendix on asyncio, for not-so-new programmers.
- “New stack” coverage: containers, clouds, data science, and machine learning.
- Hints on getting a job programming in Python.