Building Skills in Python: A Programmer’s Introduction to Python

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This book is a complete presentation of the Python language. We'll lead you from a very tiny, easy to understand subset of statements to the entire Python language and all of the built-in data structures. Professional programmers who need to learn Python are our primary audience.
We provide specific help for you in a number of ways.

• Since Python is simple, we can address newbie programmers who don’t have deep experience in a
number of other languages. We will call out some details in specific newbie sections. Experienced
programmers can skip these sections.
• Since Python has a large number of sophisticated built-in data structures, we address these separately and fully. An understanding of these structures can simplify complex programs.
• The object-orientation of Python provides tremendous flexibility and power. This is a deep subject,
and we will provide an introduction to object-oriented programming in this book. More advanced
design techniques are addressed in Building Skills in Object-Oriented Design.
• The accompanying libraries make it inexpensive to develop complex and complete solutions with minimal effort. This, however, requires some time to understand the packaged components that are available, and how they can be integrated to create useful software. We cover some of the most important modules to specifically prevent programmers from reinventing the wheel with each project.

Instructors are a secondary audience. If you are looking for classroom projects that are engaging, comprehensible, and focus on perfecting language skills, this book can help. Each chapter in this book contains exercises that help students master the concepts presented in the chapter.