Python Without Fear, Barnes & Noble Exclusive Edition - Softcover

Overland, Brian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0134845145 ISBN 13: 9780134845142

Publisher: Addison-Wesley, 2017

Synopsis

This Barnes & Noble Exclusive Edition includes a bonus chapter on tkinter (Pythons's de facto standard GUI) and Graphical Programming!

 

Praise for this book, Python Without Fear

“This is really a great book. I wish I’d had it when I was learning Python.”

―John M. Wargo, author of Apache Cordova 4 Programming

 

Praise for the previous book in the series, C++ Without Fear

“I’m in love with your C++ Without Fear book. It keeps me awake for hours during the night. Thanks to you, I got most of the idea in just a few hours.”

―Laura Viral, graduate physics student at CERN and Istanbul, Turkey

“It’s hard to tell where I began and ended with your book. I felt like I woke up and literally knew how to write C++

code. I can’t overstate the confidence you gave me.”

― Danny Grady, senior programmer/analyst at a Fortune 500 Company

Whether you’re new to programming or moving from another language, Python Without Fear will quickly make you productive! Brian Overland’s unique approach to Python includes: 

• Taking you by the hand while teaching topics from the very basics to intermediate and advanced features of Python
• Teaching by examples that are explained line by line
• Heavy emphasis on examples that are fun and useful, including games, graphics, database applications, file storage, puzzles, and more!
• How to think “Pythonically” and avoid common “gotchas”

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About this title

About the Author

Brian Overland is a textbook author, sometime actor, programmer, film reviewer, and novelist. He has been professionally programming with the C family of languages since the early 1980s and spent 10 years at Microsoft, first as a software tester and then as programmer/writer, manager, and project lead. Almost unique among programmers, he is an award-winning writer deeply committed to teaching and simplifying advanced concepts. You can read his comments on technology, reviews, and his upcoming book projects at brianoverland.com.

Edition details

• Publisher: Addison-Wesley
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0134845145
• ISBN 13: 9780134845142
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 496