Learn Enough Python to Be Dangerous (Addison-Wesley)
Wednesday, 27 September 2023

Subtitled "Software Development, Flask Web Apps, and Beginning Data Science with Python", in this book Michael Hartl teaches the specific concepts, skills, and approaches you need to be professionally productive. 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 internalize what matters, without wasting time on details pros don't care about.

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Author: Michael Hartl
Publisher: Addison-Wesley
Date: June 2023
Pages: 448
ISBN: 978-0138050955
Print: 0138050953
Kindle: ‎ B0C4VCSD1G
Audience: General
Level: Intermediate
Category: Python

Topics include:

  • 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)
  • Using 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 learning
  • Mastering concrete and informal skills every developer needs

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