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Learning Python

By : Fabrizio Romano
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Learning Python

By: Fabrizio Romano

Overview of this book

Learning Python has a dynamic and varied nature. It reads easily and lays a good foundation for those who are interested in digging deeper. It has a practical and example-oriented approach through which both the introductory and the advanced topics are explained. Starting with the fundamentals of programming and Python, it ends by exploring very different topics, like GUIs, web apps and data science. The book takes you all the way to creating a fully fledged application. The book begins by exploring the essentials of programming, data structures and teaches you how to manipulate them. It then moves on to controlling the flow of a program and writing reusable and error proof code. You will then explore different programming paradigms that will allow you to find the best approach to any situation, and also learn how to perform performance optimization as well as effective debugging. Throughout, the book steers you through the various types of applications, and it concludes with a complete mini website built upon all the concepts that you learned.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Learning Python
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgements
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

What is the Web?


The World Wide Web, or simply Web, is a way of accessing information through the use of a medium called the Internet. The Internet is a huge network of networks, a networking infrastructure. Its purpose is to connect billions of devices together, all around the globe, so that they can communicate with one another. Information travels through the Internet in a rich variety of languages called protocols, which allow different devices to speak the same tongue in order to share content.

The Web is an information-sharing model, built on top of the Internet, which employs the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) as a basis for data communication. The Web, therefore, is just one of the several different ways information can be exchanged over the Internet: e-mail, instant messaging, news groups, and so on, they all rely on different protocols.