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                 Beginning Python: From Novice to Professional

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Beginning Python: From Novice to Professional is the most comprehensive book on

the Python ever written. Based on Practical Python, this newly revised book is

both an introduction and practical reference for a swath of Python-related

programming topics, including addressing language internals, database

integration, network programming, and web services. Advanced topics, such as

extending Python and packaging/distributing Python applications, are also

covered.



Ten different projects illustrate the concepts introduced in the book. You will

learn how to create a P2P file-sharing application and a web-based bulletin

board, and how to remotely edit web-based documents and create games. Author

Magnus Lie Hetland is an authority on Python and previously authored Practical

Python. He also authored the popular online guide, Instant Python Hacking, on

which both books are based.



This book is very useful for novices and intermediate programmers, with limited

utility for experts. I started out as a relative novice, and found it to be very

useful. At the end of each chapter it reviews the functions introduced in the

chapter and makes a quick summary of what was covered in the chapter, making it

easier for someone with some previous programming experience and who has a vague

idea of python syntax to just skim off what they need for the first few

chapters, and makes a nice review for someone who was learning the content of

the chapter for the first time. The book progresses in a logical manner -

starting out with basic stuff like variables of various kinds input and output,

before going to more complex stuff. More or less, it covers all the OO,

networking and GUI stuff, and then a bit more, going over things like making

extensions to Python and web development. It contains a good amount of example

code, and various projects. After reading it, I feel more comfortable with the

language. I would recommend this book to any novice or intermediate programmer,

and if you can get your hands on a copy for cheap, it would also help a

competent programmer in other languages pick up python quickly. All in all, a

good book to have around.



Table of Contents

Ch. 1 Instant hacking : the basics 1

Ch. 2 Lists and tuples 31

Ch. 3 Working with strings 53

Ch. 4 Dictionaries : when indices won't do 67

Ch. 5 Conditionals, loops, and some other statements 81

Ch. 6 Abstraction 109

Ch. 7 More abstraction 139

Ch. 8 Exceptions 159

Ch. 9 Magic methods, properties, and iterators 173

Ch. 10 Batteries included 203

Ch. 11 Files and stuff 255

Ch. 12 Graphical user interfaces 269

Ch. 13 Database support 285

Ch. 14 Network programming 297

Ch. 15 Python and the Web 313

Ch. 16 Testing, 1-2-3 341

Ch. 17 Extending Python 357

Ch. 18 Packaging your programs 373

Ch. 19 Playful programming 381

Ch. 20 Project 1 : instant markup 391

Ch. 21 Project 2 : painting a pretty picture 411

Ch. 22 Project 3 : XML for all occasions 421

Ch. 23 Project 4 : in the news 439

Ch. 24 Project 5 : a virtual tea party 455

Ch. 25 Project 6 : remote editing with CGI 473

Ch. 26 Project 7 : your own bulletin board 483

Ch. 27 Project 8 : file sharing with XML-RPC 499

Ch. 28 Project 9 : file sharing II - now with GUI! 517

Ch. 29 Project 10 : do-it-yourself arcade game 527



Product Details



    * ISBN: 159059519X

    * ISBN-13: 9781590595190

    * Format: Paperback, 640pp

    * Publisher: Apress L. P.

    * Pub. Date: September 2005



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