Learn Python Programming: An in-depth introduction to the fundamentals of Python

If you are looking learn Python with an in depth understanding of the language, this book is for you. It starts with an introduction of fundamental topics in the first four chapters. After chapter 4, authors switch the gears and take you to the next level of Python topics such as comprehensions, generators, iterators, files, and the exception handling. A topic of cryptography is a bonus in my view as it is not usually considered as fundamental, but it is an essential ingredient to build any serious and production ready applications. In the later part of the book, authors have introduced Python for data science for beginners, how to build automated test (mainly unit tests), how to use Python for API development. I like the case study of a railway system introduced for the API development and then use the same case study for discussing how a project can be packaged and published for sharing with others. This is indeed a nice closure to the book. A couple of areas that can help to improve the readability of the book are; first, it is nice to have more diagrams and flow charts for discussion of complex topics. Second, breaking the the big sections into small subsections make it easy to u'stand the topics. I felt some sections are spanning many pages with only text and the code.

As someone coming from a science background, I think this book is fantastic. It goes over all the basics in an easy to understand way. After I learned all the basics, I successfully created a user interface for my job that actually works! I would say this book presupposes you have basic knowledge of mathematical functions (adding, subtracting, squaring, recursive formulas). I spent a lot of time on this book and took good notes, and read every chapter except for the final two. I like how they have the code available online as well.

After a preliminary review, I am very pleased with the chapter layout, in depth language review, syntax, and coding examples. I purchased a previous so called highly rated and reviewed Python beginners book but it was so simplistic it became boring very quickly. I like books that get to the specifics early like this book. Thank you. I look forward to purchasing more advanced Python books from Packt.

Learn Python programming, for begginers and advanced users.

Recieved book in good condition

Adatto a tutti non solo a chi, come me, ha già conoscenze di programmazione di altri linguaggi. Ho preso questo libro perché purtroppo nei miei studi non ho mai affrontato questo linguaggio e volevo impararlo bene cominciando dalle basi. Per ora mi sto trovando molto bene, il libro è scritto in un inglese non troppo tecnico quindi molto leggibile, in più tutti gli esempi di codice sono stata messi a disposizione su GIT dagli autori.