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Learn Python Programming, 3rd edition - Third Edition

By : Fabrizio Romano, Heinrich Kruger
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Book Image

Learn Python Programming, 3rd edition - Third Edition

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By: Fabrizio Romano, Heinrich Kruger

Overview of this book

Learn Python Programming, Third Edition is both a theoretical and practical introduction to Python, an extremely flexible and powerful programming language that can be applied to many disciplines. This book will make learning Python easy and give you a thorough understanding of the language. You'll learn how to write programs, build modern APIs, and work with data by using renowned Python data science libraries. This revised edition covers the latest updates on API management, packaging applications, and testing. There is also broader coverage of context managers and an updated data science chapter. The book empowers you to take ownership of writing your software and become independent in fetching the resources you need. You will have a clear idea of where to go and how to build on what you have learned from the book. Through examples, the book explores a wide range of applications and concludes by building real-world Python projects based on the concepts you have learned.
Table of Contents (18 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 we would like to offer the following suggestions.

The turtle module

The turtle module is an extended reimplementation of the eponymous module from the Python standard distribution up to version Python 2.5. It's a very popular way to introduce children to programming.

It's based on the idea of an imaginary turtle starting at the center of a Cartesian plane. You can programmatically command the turtle to move forward and backward, rotate, and so on; by combining all the possible moves, all sorts of intricate shapes and images can be drawn.

It's definitely worth checking out, if only to see something different.

wxPython, Kivy, and PyQt

After you have explored the vastness of the tkinter realm, we would suggest you explore other GUI libraries: wxPython (https://www.wxpython.org/), PyQt (https://www.riverbankcomputing.com/software/pyqt/), and Kivy (https...