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Learn to code like a professional with Python - an open source, versatile, and powerful programming language

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Learn the fundamentals of programming with Python - one of the best languages ever created
Develop a strong set of programming skills that you will be able to express in any situation, on every platform, thanks to Python's portability
Create outstanding applications of all kind, from websites to scripting, and from GUIs to data science

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Learning Python has a dynamic and varied nature. It reads easily and lays a good foundation for those who are interested in digging deeper. It has a practical and example-oriented approach through which both the introductory and the advanced topics are explained. Starting with the fundamentals of programming and Python, it ends by exploring very different topics, like GUIs, web apps and data science. The book takes you all the way to creating a fully fledged application.

The book begins by exploring the essentials of programming, data structures and teaches you how to manipulate them. It then moves on to controlling the flow of a program and writing reusable and error proof code. You will then explore different programming paradigms that will allow you to find the best approach to any situation, and also learn how to perform performance optimization as well as effective debugging. Throughout, the book steers you through the various types of applications, and it concludes with a complete mini website built upon all the concepts that you learned.

What you will learn

Get Python up and running on Windows, Mac, and Linux in no time
Grasp the fundamental concepts of coding, along with the basics of data structures and control flow.
Write elegant, reusable, and efficient code in any situation
Understand when to use the functional or the object oriented programming approach
Create bulletproof, reliable software by writing tests to support your code
Explore examples of GUIs, scripting, data science and web applications
Learn to be independent, capable of fetching any resource you need, as well as dig deeper

Who this book is for

Python is the most popular introductory teaching language in U.S. top computer science universities, so if you are new to software development, or maybe you have little experience, and would like to start off on the right foot, then this language and this book are what you need. Its amazing design and portability will help you become productive regardless of the environment you choose to work with.

Introduction and first steps - Take a deep breath
Built-in data types
Iterating and making decisions
Functions, the building blocks of code
Saving time and memory
Advanced Concepts - OOP, Decorators, Iterators
Testing, Profiling and dealing with Exceptions
The edges: GUIs and Scripts
Data Science
Web Development done right
Debugging and troubleshooting
Summing up: a complete example

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December 24, 2015
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Fabrizio Romano was born in Italy in 1975. He holds a master's degree in computer science engineering from the University of Padova. He is also a certified Scrum master. Before Python, he has worked with several other languages, such as C/C++, Java, PHP, and C#. In 2011, he moved to London and started working as a Python developer for Glasses Direct, one of Europe's leading online prescription glasses retailers.

He then worked as a senior Python developer for TBG (now Sprinklr), one of the world's leading companies in social media advertising. At TBG, he and his team collaborated with Facebook and Twitter. They were the first in the world to get access to the Twitter advertising API. He wrote the code that published the first geo-narrowcasted promoted tweet in the world using the API.

He currently works as a team leader for Sohonet Ltd, a company that is raising the bar in technology around media production.

He has delivered talks on Teaching Python and TDD with Python at the last two editions of EuroPython and at Skillsmatter in London.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Packt Publishing (December 24, 2015)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 442 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1783551712
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1783551712
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.66 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.5 x 1 x 9.25 inches

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Fabrizio Romano was born in Italy in 1975. He holds a master's degree in Computer Science Engineering from the University of Padova. He’s been working as a professional software developer since 1999. Fabrizio has been part of Sohonet’s Product Team since 2016. In 2020, the Television Academy honored them with an Emmy Award in Engineering Development for advancing remote collaboration.

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Bill Thomson

Very promising book on Python

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 20, 2016

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The book looks very promising but I ran into problems early on that I have been unable to work through yet. The book assumes that you have a working version of Python on your computer and it assumes that you have a certain set of libraries preloaded. My computer has both Python V2 and V3 loaded but there is a problem with the Python package manager which has been loaded. This is keeping me from adding the special libraries needed to follow the book. I expect that I will be able to work out the problems but it would have been easier if the book included the steps to do the initial load and configuration of Python instead of expecting it is already available.

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Brian Xee

BUY IT NOW!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 25, 2016

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I bought this for my 9 year old son who loves programming in Python, scratch and plotagon. This book has been great to take him step-by step. We installed Anaconda 4.0 so he doesnt always have to spend his time searching and installing things. Python 3.5 is loaded with Anaconda. Right away he got the book and started writing programs. I also liked this book was 400+ pages to keep him busy.. I am searching for the next book to buy him, maybe python machine language book. Suggestions welcome for what book I should buy for him after he completes this one. I should also mention that the programs he is writing with this book are not nonsense programs, they are extremly useful and directly related to programming. I read another review about the 1000+ python learning book which is also on my list for him.

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Bronislaw

Four Stars

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 15, 2016

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Intuitive, quick, to the point.
At times, "intuitive" gets too much "non-structured", thus a bit difficult to follow.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 11, 2018

Good book

No section on file I/O

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 18, 2017

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One of the fundamental topics of programming, especially a scripting language like Python, is file I/O - how to read a file, substitute text, substitute a line, how to read a directory tree, etc. This book does NOT have it. Because of this I returned it.

The other information is very useful and well-written.

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Vincent

Great book! This is a well written introduction to ...

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 6, 2016

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Great book! This is a well written introduction to Python and good software development in general. I have used R for 7 years intensively for data analyses but wanted to broaden my programming skills.

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This is not a book for beginners - if that ...

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This is not a book for beginners - if that was the intended group then the material is poorly presented.

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macieksobczak

The best educational python book so far

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I'm very passionate about the educational aspects of programming and because of that I got interested in Learning Python by Fabrizio Romano. For a long time I was looking for a single book which could fulfil the following requirements:

- introduce programming concepts in a very clear but not too simple way so that the reader would feel that his time spent with the material is highly optimized and there are no over-explained ideas
- focus on the practical aspects therefore showing how really a given language is used (by really of course I mean professionally) and not merely being a reference to the whole richness of modern programming languages. The reference type of books are in my opinion very harmful since way too often they are leaving the reader with enormous set of possible permutations of language constructs that ultimately make the user more lost than before reading the book.
- showing that programming is highly creative and collaborative activity.

Fulfilling all above conditions requires from the author an incredible sense of balance and deep understanding of readers mind, skills and motivation and in my opinion the author of Learning Python achieved that.

I'm quite an advanced Python developer with few years of professional experience and initially I was only planning to read few chapters (advance ones) of Learning Python but because of some intuition I started to read from the first chapter and after few minutes I was hooked! I loved it! Here are some of things I've noted down while reading the book:

- the author used very light conversational style which makes the text very easy to read and follow
- the idea of using inline comments in the code snippets making them a natural almost organic continuation of the main text is ingenious!
- incredible amount of side threads that introduce certain concepts which will be fully outlined later in book but enable one to start becoming comfortable with way earlier.
- chapters are organized in a brilliant fashion not using some artificial and highly theoretical categorisation but rather the practicality and intuition.
- projects (especially the one in last chapter) are highly practical and could be easily used in real world products.

I think that the best way to describe Learning Python is to compare it to a very good book for studying one of the foreign languages, a book which does not focus on every single aspect of a language by overflowing the reader with tables of grammar rules, declinations and super boring and useless examples but rather showing beauty, richness, smartness and adaptivity of certain ideas and concepts making the language alive and such a powerful tool to communicate, create poetry and literally construct any yet unthinkable thoughts.

Quite accidentally while reading Learning Python I've found a quote by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry which in a prefect way describes what I really tried to convey above:

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If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea
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And without any doubts Fabrizio Romano and his Learning Python taught me how to long for the endless immensity and richness of the world of Python.

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Jude C U

Great book

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Great book. Not suitable for absolute beginners though. I would recommend some other introductory title like “Python programming: an introduction to computer sciences” by John Zelle. If you have done some programming before and you are completely new to Python - then I would recommend this book.

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Axel NIelsen

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on March 7, 2018

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Still learning - Still enjoying!

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