Impractical Python Projects: Playful Programming Activities to Make You Smarter - Softcover

Lee Vaughan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 159327890X ISBN 13: 9781593278908

Publisher: No Starch Press, 2018

Synopsis

Impractical Python picks up where the complete beginners book leaves off, expanding on existing concepts and introducing new tools and techniques that you'll use every day. Just flip to any page, cookbook-style, and test your skills with software design, code optimization, and debugging. To keep thing interesting, each project includes a zany twist featuring historical incidents, pop culture, literature, comics, and the purely scientific.

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Review

"Python is a programming language, but it is also fun to play with. This book recognizes that."
--Geek Tech Stuff

"Rather than being an introductory text, Vaughan's book pushes you in interesting directions for solving a diverse set of problems. Most of these "impractical" projects, while themselves being not so useless after all, will have parallels to real life projects." --Greg Laden, Greg Laden's Blog

About the Author

Lee Vaughan is a geologist with over 30 years' experience in the petroleum industry. As the Senior Technical Professional for Geological Modeling at Exxon Mobil Corporation, he was involved in the construction and review of computer models, the development, testing, and commercialization of software, and the training of geoscientists and engineers. An advocate for nonprogrammers who must use programming in their careers, he wrote Impractical Python to help self-learners hone their skills with the Python language.

Edition details

• Publisher: No Starch Press
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 159327890X
• ISBN 13: 9781593278908
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 488