Learn Python the Hard Way - Zed Shaw

Learn Python the Hard Way

A Very Simple Introduction to the Terrifyingly Beautiful World of Computers and Code

Zed Shaw (Autor)

Media-Kombination
320 Seiten
2013 | 3rd edition
Addison-Wesley Educational Publishers Inc
978-0-321-88491-6 (ISBN)
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You Will Learn Python!

 

Zed Shaw has perfected the world's best system for learning Python. Follow it and you will succeed-just like the hundreds of thousands of beginners Zed has taught to date! You bring the discipline, commitment, and persistence; the author supplies everything else.

 

In Learn Python the Hard Way, Third Edition, you'll learn Python by working through 52 brilliantly crafted exercises. Read them. Type their code precisely. (No copying and pasting!) Fix your mistakes. Watch the programs run. As you do, you'll learn how software works; what good programs look like; how to read, write, and think about code; and how to find and fix your mistakes using tricks professional programmers use. Most importantly, you'll learn the following, which you need to start writing excellent Python software of your own:



Installing a complete Python environment
Organizing and writing code
Basic mathematics
Variables
Strings and text
Interacting with users
Working with files
Looping and logic
Data structures using lists and dictionaries
Program design
Object-oriented programming
Inheritance and composition
Modules, classes, and objects
Python packaging
Debugging
Automated testing
Basic game development
Basic web development

It'll be hard at first. But soon, you'll just get it-and that will feel great!

 

This tutorial will reward you for every minute you put into it. Soon, you'll know one of the world's most powerful, popular programming languages. You'll be a Python programmer.

 

Watch Zed, too! The accompanying DVD contains 5+ hours of passionate, powerful teaching: a complete Python video course!

Zed A. Shaw is the author of the popular online books Learn Python the Hard Way, Learn Ruby the Hard Way, and Learn C the Hard Way. He is also the creator of several open source software projects like Mongrel, Lamson, Mongrel2, and has been programming and writing for nearly 20 years.  

Preface 1
Acknowledgments 1
The Hard Way Is Easier 1
Do Not Copy-Paste 2
A Note on Practice and Persistence 3
A Warning for the Smarties 3

 

Exercise 0: The Setup 6
Mac OSX 6
Windows 7
Linux 9
Warnings for Beginners 10

 

Exercise 1: A Good First Program 12
What You Should See 14
Study Drills 15
Common Student Questions 16

 

Exercise 2: Comments and Pound Characters 18
What You Should See 18
Study Drills 18
Common Student Questions 19

 

Exercise 3: Numbers and Math 20
What You Should See 21
Study Drills 21
Common Student Questions 22

 

Exercise 4: Variables and Names 24
What You Should See 25
Study Drills 25
Common Student Questions 25

 

Exercise 5: More Variables and Printing 28
What You Should See 28
Study Drills 29
Common Student Questions 29

 

Exercise 6: Strings and Text 30
What You Should See 31
Study Drills 31
Common Student Questions 31

 

Exercise 7: More Printing. 32
What You Should See 32
Study Drills 32
Common Student Questions 33

 

Exercise 8: Printing, Printing 34
What You Should See 34
Study Drills 34
Common Student Questions 34

 

Exercise 9: Printing, Printing, Printing 36
What You Should See 36
Study Drills 36
Common Student Questions 37

 

Exercise 10: What Was That? 38
What You Should See 39
Escape Sequences 39
Study Drills 40
Common Student Questions 40

 

Exercise 11: Asking Questions 42
What You Should See 42
Study Drills 43
Common Student Questions 43

 

Exercise 12: Prompting People 44
What You Should See 44
Study Drills 44
Common Student Questions 45

 

Exercise 13: Parameters, Unpacking, Variables 46
Hold Up! Features Have Another Name 46
What You Should See 47
Study Drills 48
Common Student Questions 48

 

Exercise 14: Prompting and Passing 50
What You Should See 50
Study Drills 51
Common Student Questions 51

 

Exercise 15: Reading Files 54
What You Should See 55
Study Drills 55
Common Student Questions 56

 

Exercise 16: Reading and Writing Files 58
What You Should See 59
Study Drills 59
Common Student Questions 60

 

Exercise 17: More Files 62
What You Should See 63
Study Drills 63
Common Student Questions 63

 

Exercise 18: Names, Variables, Code, Functions 66
What You Should See 67
Study Drills 68
Common Student Questions 68

 

Exercise 19: Functions and Variables 70
What You Should See 71
Study Drills 71
Common Student Questions 71

 

Exercise 20: Functions and Files 74
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Erscheint lt. Verlag 10.10.2013
Reihe/Serie Zed Shaw's Hard Way Series
Verlagsort New Jersey
Sprache englisch
Themenwelt Mathematik / Informatik Informatik Web / Internet
ISBN-10 0-321-88491-4 / 0321884914
ISBN-13 978-0-321-88491-6 / 9780321884916
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