Lea Enough Python to Be Dangerous: Software Development, Flask Web Apps, and Beginning Data Science with Python 1st Edition

by: Michael Hartl (Author)

Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional; 1st edition (July 17, 2023)

Language: English
Paperback: 448 pages

ISBN-10: 0138050953

ISBN-13: 9780138050955

Book Description

All You Need to Know, and Nothing You Don’t, to Solve Real Problems with Python
Python is one of the most popular programming languages in the world, used for everything from shell scripts to web development to data science. As a result, Python is a great language to lea, but you don’t need to lea “everything” to get started, just how to use it efficiently to solve real problems. In Lea Enough Python to Be Dangerous, renowned instructor Michael Hartl teaches the specific concepts, skills, and approaches you need to be professionally productive.
Even if you’ve never programmed before, Hartl helps you quickly build technical sophistication and master the lore you need to succeed. Hartl introduces Python both as a general-purpose language and as a specialist tool for web development and data science, presenting focused examples and exercises that help you intealize what matters, without wasting time on details pros don’t care about. Soon, it’ll be like you were bo knowing this stuff–and you’ll be suddenly, seriously dangerous.
Lea enough about . . .
Applying core Python concepts with the interactive interpreter and command line
Writing object-oriented code with Python’s native objects
Developing and publishing self-contained Python packages
Using elegant, powerful functional programming techniques, including Python comprehensions
Building new objects, and extending them via Test-Driven Development (TDD)
Leveraging Python’s exceptional shell scripting capabilities
Creating and deploying a full web app, using routes, layouts, templates, and forms
Getting started with data-science tools for numerical computations, data visualization, data analysis, and machine leaing
Mastering concrete and informal skills every developer needs
Michael Hartl’s Lea Enough Series includes books and video courses that focus on the most important parts of each subject, so you don’t have to lea everything to get started–you just have to lea enough to be dangerous and solve technical problems yourself.
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