Description
Book SynopsisYou're a student who wants to jumpstart their career with practical skills, or you're a self-taught beginner who has learned all you can from beginner programmer books and coding bootcamps. Now you're looking for the next step to becoming a real-world professional programmer so you can create your own apps and get started with your career. If that fits, then this book is for you! This book is perfect for self-taught programmers looking for the stuff intro books don't teach you and students wanting to get practical information before getting started with applying their new programming skills.
Trade Review"A great new book . . . Sweigart focuses on three major subjects: common difficulties in getting started (seeking help, setting up a work environment); best practices, tools, and techniques; and using object-oriented Python. The second section is the largest in the book . . . but each section can be read on its own. The book is all the more useful for collecting together between one pair of covers material that you would typically dig up from multiple resources."
—Serdar Yegulalp, InfoWorld
"My early Python programs work but could be improved massively with what Al writes about . . . a small goldmine of knowledge that beginners, intermediates and probably even advanced programmers will benefit from."
—GeekTechStuffTable of ContentsIntroduction
Part I: Getting Started1. Dealing with Errors and Asking for Help
2. Environmental Setup
3. Formatting with the Black Module
Part II: Best Practices, Tools, and Techniques4. Choosing Useful Names
5. Finding Code Smells
6. Writing Pythonic Code
7. Programming Jargon
8. Common Python Gotchas
9. Esoteric Python Oddities
10. Crafting Effective Functions
11. Comments and Type Hints
12. Version Control with Git
13. Profiling Code
Part III: Practice Problems14. Tower of Hanoi
15. Connect Four
Part IV: Readable Object-Oriented Programming16. Classes and Objects
17. Inheritance
18. Pythonic Object-Oriented Programming
Index
