In disarmingly readable prose, Magnus Lie Hetland leads the reader through those concepts of most importance to the budding Python developer.Following a succinct overview of the installation process he brings the reader up-to-speed regarding the general programming precepts common to every high level language. Hetland devotes the second half of the book to project developement.
Instant hacking : the basics.
Lists and tuples.
Working with strings.
Dictionaries: When indices won't work.
Conditionals,loops and some other statements.
Abstraction.
More Abstraction.
Exceptions.
Magic methods,properties and iterators.
Batteries included.
Files and stuff.
Graphical user interfaces.
Playful programming
+ 10 Increasingly more complex projects. |