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Learn Python in 7 Days

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Learn Python in 7 Days

Overview of this book

Python is a great language to get started in the world of programming and application development. This book will help you to take your skills to the next level having a good knowledge of the fundamentals of Python. We begin with the absolute foundation, covering the basic syntax, type variables and operators. We'll then move on to concepts like statements, arrays, operators, string processing and I/O handling. You’ll be able to learn how to operate tuples and understand the functions and methods of lists. We’ll help you develop a deep understanding of list and tuples and learn python dictionary. As you progress through the book, you’ll learn about function parameters and how to use control statements with the loop. You’ll further learn how to create modules and packages, storing of data as well as handling errors. We later dive into advanced level concepts such as Python collections and how to use class, methods, objects in python. By the end of this book, you will be able to take your skills to the next level having a good knowledge of the fundamentals of Python.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
2
Type Variables and Operators

Chapter 11. Class and Objects

Before we delve deeper into classes and objects, let's first try to understand what they are and why they form part of Python programming. Python language also supports object-oriented programming. For beginners, this might be a little confusing topic but be assured it is not that difficult to understand the concept of object-oriented programming (OOP). Let's try to understand what object-oriented programming is. Before this concept was introduced, we were primarily slave to writing procedural programming, that is, going line by line. At this level, you need not understand what is procedural programming but certainly there is one example to illustrate it, that is, C language. In procedural programming, there were a lot of complexities and above all procedural programming had negligible code reuse concept.