The Python Workshop, 2nd Edition

Python is among the most popular programming languages ​​in the world. Because Python is easy to read and write, it's an ideal language for beginners, and it's also ideal for developers, with a strong support community, extensive documentation, and fantastic working and user-contributed libraries that are widely available.

The Python Workshop, 2nd Edition is a project-based course designed by a team of expert authors to help you get started with Python. You'll work on engaging projects that will allow you to effectively apply your newly acquired Python skills to technical jobs, personal projects, and job interviews. This book will help you excel in data science, web development, and software development, preparing you to tackle real-world challenges in Python and pursue advanced topics on your own. Throughout the chapters, each component is explicitly designed to engage and stimulate different parts of the brain so you can retain and apply what you learn to maximum effect.

By completing this course from start to finish, you'll feel equipped to tackle any real-world Python development challenge.

Key Features

·         Understanding and applying Python syntax, objects, methods and best practices

·         Explore the many features and libraries of Python through real-world and big data problems

·         Apply your newly acquired Python skills to machine learning as well as web and software development

What you will learn

·         Writing efficient and concise functions using Python's tired methods and libraries

·         Creating classes to meet different business needs

·         Create visual graphs to communicate key data insights

·         Organizing big data and using machine learning to perform regression prediction and classification

·         Develop web pages and applications with Python packages and tools

·         Automate essential tasks using Python scripts in real time

Who is this book for?

This book is for professionals, students, and hobbyists who want to learn Python and use it to solve challenging real-world problems. Although this is a course for beginners, you will find it easier if you already have an understanding of standard programming topics such as variables, if-else statements, and functions. Experience with another object-oriented language, although not essential, would be beneficial. If Python is your first foray into computer programming, this book will help you understand the basics in enough detail for a motivated student.

Table of Contents:

- Chapter 1: Python Fundamentals – Math, Strings, Conditionals, and Loops

- Chapter 2: Python Data Structures

- Chapter 3: Executing Python – Programs, Algorithms, and Functions

- Chapter 4: Extending Python, Files, Errors, and Graphs

- Chapter 5: Constructing Python – Classes and Methods

- Chapter 6: The Standard Library

- Chapter 7: Becoming Pythonic

- Chapter 8: Software Development

- Chapter 9: Practical Python – Advanced Topics

- Chapter 10: Data Analytics with pandas and NumPy

- Chapter 11: Machine Learning

- Chapter 12: Deep Learning with Python

- Chapter 13: The Evolution of Python – Discovering New Python Features