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Learning Python

By : Romano
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Learning Python

By: 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 (14 chapters)
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Index

The future of web development

Computer science is a very young subject, compared to other branches of science that have existed alongside humankind for centuries or more. One of its main characteristics is that it moves extremely fast. It leaps forward with such speed that, in just a few years, you can see changes that are comparable to real world changes that took a century to happen. Therefore, as a coder, you must pay attention to what happens in this world, all the time.

Something that is happening now is that because powerful computers are now quite cheap and almost everyone has access to them, the trend is to try and avoid putting too much workload on the backend, and let the frontend handle part of it. Therefore, in the last few years, JavaScript frameworks and libraries like jQuery and Backbone have become very popular and web development has shifted from a paradigm where the backend takes care of handling data, preparing it, and serving it to the frontend to display it, to a paradigm...