Dive Into Python
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Dive Into Python
Whether you're an experienced programmer looking to get into Python or grizzled Python veteran who remembers the days when you had to import the string module, Dive Into Python is your 'desert island' Python book. — Joey deVilla, Slashdot contributor As a complete newbie to the language...I constantly had those little thoughts like, 'this is the way a programming language should be taught.' — Lasse Koskela , JavaRanch Apress has been profuse in both its quantity and quality of releasesand (this book is) surely worth adding to your technical reading budget for skills development. — Blane Warrene, Technology Notes I am reading this ... because the language seems like a good way to accomplish programming tasks that don't require the low-level bit handling power of C. — Richard Bejtlich, TaoSecurity Python is a new and innovative scripting language. It is set to replace Perl as the programming language of choice for shell scripters, and for serious application developers who want a feature-rich, yet simple language to deploy their products. Dive Into Python is ahands-on guide to the Python language. Each chapter starts with a real, complete code sample, proceeds to pick it apart and explain the pieces, and then puts it all back together in a summary at the end. This is the perfect resource for you if you like to jump into languages fast and get going right away. If you're just starting to learn Python, first pick up a copy of Magnus Lie Hetland's Practical Python.
Dive Into Algorithms
Author: Bradford Tuckfield
language: en
Publisher: No Starch Press
Release Date: 2021-01-05
Dive Into Algorithms is a broad introduction to algorithms using the Python Programming Language. Dive Into Algorithms is a wide-ranging, Pythonic tour of many of the world's most interesting algorithms. With little more than a bit of computer programming experience and basic high-school math, you'll explore standard computer science algorithms for searching, sorting, and optimization; human-based algorithms that help us determine how to catch a baseball or eat the right amount at a buffet; and advanced algorithms like ones used in machine learning and artificial intelligence. You'll even explore how ancient Egyptians and Russian peasants used algorithms to multiply numbers, how the ancient Greeks used them to find greatest common divisors, and how Japanese scholars in the age of samurai designed algorithms capable of generating magic squares. You'll explore algorithms that are useful in pure mathematics and learn how mathematical ideas can improve algorithms. You'll learn about an algorithm for generating continued fractions, one for quick calculations of square roots, and another for generating seemingly random sets of numbers. You'll also learn how to: • Use algorithms to debug code, maximize revenue, schedule tasks, and create decision trees • Measure the efficiency and speed of algorithms • Generate Voronoi diagrams for use in various geometric applications • Use algorithms to build a simple chatbot, win at board games, or solve sudoku puzzles • Write code for gradient ascent and descent algorithms that can find the maxima and minima of functions • Use simulated annealing to perform global optimization • Build a decision tree to predict happiness based on a person's characteristics Once you've finished this book you'll understand how to code and implement important algorithms as well as how to measure and optimize their performance, all while learning the nitty-gritty details of today's most powerful algorithms.
Effective Python
5+ Hours of Video Instruction Effective Python LiveLessons Video Training offers developers insight into the Pythonic way of writing programs, building on the viewer's fundamental understanding of Python to help him or her write programs more effectively. Description Effective Python LiveLessons Video Training is based on the book Effective Python written by Google software engineer Brett Slatkin for the Effective Software Development Series. Each lesson contains a broad but related set of items. Each item is designed to provide concise and specific guidance on what to do and what to avoid when writing programs using Python. Hands-on demonstration helps the viewer understand how to put each item into action. Each of the video's six lessons includes items focused on a key topic. The video starts with items focused on how to make more efficient use of expressions and statements before moving on to lessons that teach viewers how to better use comprehensions and generators, functions, and classes. Next, the training teaches viewers how to solve problems associated with concurrency and parallelism. Finally, the focus switches to how to make Python programs more robust. After watching this video, Python programmers will have the knowledge necessary to really master the language and apply the advice, tips, and tricks learned from the video to the Python programs they're writing, immediately improving the quality of their code. The source code repository for this LiveLesson is located at https://github.com/bslatkin/effectivepython/blob/master/VIDEO.md . About the Instructor Brett Slatkin is a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google and the engineering lead and co-founder of Google Consumer Surveys. Slatkin formerly worked on Google App Engine's Python infrastructure. He is the co-creator of the PubSubHubbub protocol. Nine years ago, he cut his teeth using Python to manage Google's enormous fleet of servers. Outside of his day job, he works on open source tools and writes about software, bicycles, and other topics on his personal website. He earned his B.S. in Computer Engineering from Columbia University in the City of New York. He lives in San Francisco. Skill Level Intermediate to Advanced What You Will Learn Methods for using expressions and statements more efficiently How to make better use of comprehensions and generators How to make better use of functions and classes Methods for working with concurrency and parallelism How to make your program...