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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

Where do we go from here?


If you are interested in digging deeper into the world of GUIs, then I'd like to offer you the following suggestions.

The tkinter.tix module

Exploring tkinter and its themed widget set, tkinter.ttk, will take you some time. There's much to learn and play with. Another interesting module to explore, when you'll be familiar with this technology, is tkinter.tix.

The tkinter.tix (Tk Interface Extension) module provides an additional very rich set of widgets. The need for them stems from the fact that the widgets in the standard Tk library are far from complete.

The tkinter.tix library allows us to solve this problem by providing widgets like HList, ComboBox, Control (or SpinBox), and various scrollable widgets. Altogether, there are more than 40 widgets. They allow you to introduce different interaction techniques and paradigms into your applications, thus improving their quality and usability.

The turtle module

The turtle module is an extended reimplementation of the eponymous...