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The Quick Python Book 3rd Edition
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This third revision of Manning's popular The Quick Python Book offers a clear, crisp updated introduction to the elegant Python programming language and its famously easy-to-read syntax. Written for programmers new to Python, this latest edition includes new exercises throughout. It covers features common to other languages concisely, while introducing Python's comprehensive standard functions library and unique features in detail.
Foreword by Nicholas Tollervey, Python Software Foundation.
Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.
About the Technology
Initially Guido van Rossum's 1989 holiday project, Python has grown into an amazing computer language. It's a joy to learn and read, and powerful enough to handle everything from low-level system resources to advanced applications like deep learning. Elegantly simple and complete, it also boasts a massive ecosystem of libraries and frameworks. Python programmers are in high demand/mdash;you can't afford not to be fluent!
About the Book
The Quick Python Book, Third Edition is a comprehensive guide to the Python language by a Python authority, Naomi Ceder. With the personal touch of a skilled teacher, she beautifully balances details of the language with the insights and advice you need to handle any task. Extensive, relevant examples and learn-by-doing exercises help you master each important concept the first time through. Whether you're scraping websites or playing around with nested tuples, you'll appreciate this book's clarity, focus, and attention to detail.
What's Inside
- Clear coverage of Python 3
- Core libraries, packages, and tools
- In-depth exercises
- Five new data science-related chapters
About the Reader
Written for readers familiar with programming concepts--no Python experience assumed.
About the Author
Naomi Ceder is chair of the Python Software Foundation. She has been learning, using, and teaching Python since 2001.
Table of Contents
PART 1 - STARTING OUT
1. About Python
2. Getting started
3. The Quick Python overview
PART 2 - THE ESSENTIALS
4. The absolute basics
5. Lists, tuples, and sets
6. Strings
7. Dictionaries
8. Control flow
9. Functions
10. Modules and scoping rules
11. Python programs
12. Using the filesystem
13. Reading and writing files
14. Exceptions
PART 3 - ADVANCED LANGUAGE FEATURES
15. Classes and object-oriented programming
16. Regular expressions
17. Data types as objects
18. Packages
19. Using Python libraries
PART 4 - WORKING WITH DATA
20. Basic file wrangling
21. Processing data files
22. Data over the network
23. Saving data
24. Exploring data
- ISBN-101617294039
- ISBN-13978-1617294037
- Edition3rd
- PublisherManning
- Publication dateJune 14, 2018
- LanguageEnglish
- Dimensions7.38 x 1 x 9.25 inches
- Print length472 pages
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"Leads you from a basic knowledge of Python to its most interesting features, always using accessible language." --Eros Pedrini, everis
"Unleash your Pythonic powers with this book and start coding real-world applications fast."--Carlos Fernández Manzano, Aguas de Murcia
"The complete and definitive book to start learning Python." --Christos Paisios, e-Travel
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- Publisher : Manning; 3rd edition (June 14, 2018)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 472 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1617294039
- ISBN-13 : 978-1617294037
- Item Weight : 1.59 pounds
- Dimensions : 7.38 x 1 x 9.25 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #462,159 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #324 in Computer Programming Languages
- #529 in Python Programming
- #535 in Microsoft Programming (Books)
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About the author

After getting a PhD in Classics, Naomi Ceder ended up in technology, and has been teaching programming for nearly 20 years. She has been involved with Python since 2001, administering servers and developing large database and web applications using Python in a variety of situations, from web applications and API's to data wrangling.
Naomi is an elected fellow of the Python Software Foundation and is a past chair of its board of directors. She speaks internationally on the Python community and inclusion in technology more generally.
Naomi also is available for on-site training in beginning through advanced levels of Python.
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This is supposed to be a book for people who have already had experience with other languages but it really is a book for people who have already mastered Python.
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Las explicaciones son super claras, prácticas y concisas. Esta planteado con casos prácticos y retos y con muchos ejemplos que puedes probar tu mism@. A parte va lanzando preguntas y retillos de variaciones para que puedas estrujarte un poco la cabeza y sacar la solución por ti mism@. De todos modos al final vienen las respuestas y soluciones para que lo verifiques o compruebes si la solución coincide con la tuya.
Trata temas muy prácticos y de uso corriente. Creo que puede ser un buen libro tanto si no sabes Python como si lo usas esporádicamente y quieres mejorar tus conocimientos. No obstante, no es un libro de introducción a la programación en cuanto a explicación teórica de conceptos básicos. Pero aún así quizás pueda servir como una introducción muy práctica y poco teórica.
Un libro genial. Bravo por la autora.
I can code in Python, but still love this book for several reasons:
- The author is a true Pythonian and I can learn from her
- Example: how JSON is similar to Python's dictionary (as an NLP coder, I'm obsessed with dictionaries in word embeddings).
- The book covers a wide range including scraping, API's .... a great refresher.
With all the Python hype, I believe Python is still under-appreciated. Why? As Python is so readable to humans, it helps me to think clearer.
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