B.M. Harwani is the founder and owner of Microchip Computer Education (MCE), based in Ajmer, India. He graduated with a BE in computer engineering from the University of Pune and also has a C level (masters diploma in computer technology) from DOEACC, Government of India. Having been involved in the teaching field for over 20 years, he has developed the art of explaining even the most complicated topics in a straightforward and easily understandable fashion. He is also a renowned speaker and the author of several books. To learn more, visit his blog, a site that helps programmers.
A big thank you to the entire editorial team at Packt, who worked tirelessly to produce this book. Really, I enjoyed working with each of you. I should not forget to thank my dear students, who have been a good teacher for me as they make me understand the basic problems they face in a subject and enable me to directly hit those topics. The endless interesting queries from my students help me write books with a practical approach.
Marcus Ottosson is a company director, software developer, and artist with a decade of experience in the film and visual effects industry. He has built countless user interfaces and tools with Python and Qt for projects such as Marvel’s Doctor Strange and Alfonso Cuaron’s Gravity. He has written several Python frameworks for use in the creation of film and games, such as Pyblish and Avalon, along with PyQt, a compatibility wrapper around all the available bindings of Qt for Python.
Sivan Grünberg has close to 20 years of multidisciplinary IT expertise and a razor-sharp eye for quality. A long-time open source devotee, his contributions can be found, literally, all over open source. He has been utilizing the Python ecosystem for R&D endeavors ever since it was pitched to him by The SABDFL and Ubuntu. Alongside Shir, a product, content, and operations expert, he runs Vitakka.co, providing infrastructure consulting and coding solutions in all-things digital.
My amazing family, Eric, Helena, Shir, Moshik, and the Debian/Ubuntu, Python, GNOME, and KDE communities—without you, these lines would have never been written.
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