Python Workout
50 Essential Exercises
Published on 2. October 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
260 pages
978-1-61729-550-8 (ISBN)
Description
Python Workout presents 50 exercises designed to deepen the reader's skill with Python.
Readers will not only tackle exercises using built-in data structures, but also more advanced techniques, such as functional programming, object-oriented programming, iterators, and generators. With each engaging challenge, readers will practice a new skill and learn how to apply it to everyday coding tasks.
Key Features
50 hands-on exercises and solutions
Basic Python sequence types
Python dictionaries and sets
Functional programming in Python
Creating your own classes
Working with Python objects
Generator functions
Intended for readers with basic Python skills.
About the technology
Python is a versatile, elegant, general purpose programming language. Essential for data analysis, web development, artificial intelligence, games, desktop apps, and more, Python skills are a hot commodity.
Reuven M. Lerner, an independent consultant for more than two decades, teaches Python, data science, and Git to companies around the world. His Better developers newsletter and blog are read by thousands of Python developers each week. Reuven has written a monthly column, "At the Forge," for Linux Journal since 1996 and is a panellist on the weekly Freelancers Show podcast. Reuven lives with his wife and three children in Modi'in, Israel, and can be reached at https://lerner.co.il/ or on Twitter at @reuvenmlerner.
Readers will not only tackle exercises using built-in data structures, but also more advanced techniques, such as functional programming, object-oriented programming, iterators, and generators. With each engaging challenge, readers will practice a new skill and learn how to apply it to everyday coding tasks.
Key Features
50 hands-on exercises and solutions
Basic Python sequence types
Python dictionaries and sets
Functional programming in Python
Creating your own classes
Working with Python objects
Generator functions
Intended for readers with basic Python skills.
About the technology
Python is a versatile, elegant, general purpose programming language. Essential for data analysis, web development, artificial intelligence, games, desktop apps, and more, Python skills are a hot commodity.
Reuven M. Lerner, an independent consultant for more than two decades, teaches Python, data science, and Git to companies around the world. His Better developers newsletter and blog are read by thousands of Python developers each week. Reuven has written a monthly column, "At the Forge," for Linux Journal since 1996 and is a panellist on the weekly Freelancers Show podcast. Reuven lives with his wife and three children in Modi'in, Israel, and can be reached at https://lerner.co.il/ or on Twitter at @reuvenmlerner.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 186 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
480 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-61729-550-8 (9781617295508)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
E-Book
07/2020
1st Edition
Manning
€43.51
Available for download
Person
Reuven M. Lerner, an independent consultant for more than two decades, teaches Python, data science, and Git to companies around the world. His Better developers newsletter and blog are read by thousands of Python developers each week. Reuven has written a monthly column, "At the Forge," for Linux Journal since 1996 and is a panellist on the weekly Freelancers Show podcast. Reuven lives with his wife and three children in Modi'in, Israel, and can be reached at https://lerner.co.il/ or on Twitter at @reuvenmlerner.