Python Without Fear

Book Description

Praise for this book, Python Without Fear

“This is really a great book. I wish I’d had it when I was learning Python.”

–John M. Wargo, author of Apache Cordova 4 Programming

Praise for the previous book in the series, C++ Without Fear

“I’m in love with your C++ Without Fear book. It keeps me awake for hours during the night. Thanks to you, I got most of the idea in just a few hours.”

–Laura Viral, graduate physics student at CERN and Istanbul, Turkey

“It’s hard to tell where I began and ended with your book. I felt like I woke up and literally knew how to write C++

code. I can’t overstate the confidence you gave me.”

– Danny Grady, senior programmer/analyst at a Fortune 500 Company

Whether you’re new to programming or moving from another language, Python Without Fear will quickly make you productive! Brian Overland’s unique approach to Python includes:

• Taking you by the hand while teaching topics from the very basics to intermediate and advanced features of Python
• Teaching by examples that are explained line by line
• Heavy emphasis on examples that are fun and useful, including games, graphics, database applications, file storage, puzzles, and more!
• How to think “Pythonically” and avoid common “gotchas”

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Meet the Python
Chapter 2 A Python Safari: Numbers
Chapter 3 Your First Programs
Chapter 4 Decisions and Looping
Chapter 5 Python Lists
Chapter 6 List Comprehension and Enumeration
Chapter 7 Python Strings
Chapter 8 Single-Character Ops
Chapter 9 Advanced Function Techniques
Chapter 10 Local and Global Variables
Chapter 11 File Ops
Chapter 12 Dictionaries and Sets
Chapter 13 Matrixes: 2-D Lists
Chapter 14 Winning at Tic-Tac-Toe
Chapter 15 Classes and Objects I
Chapter 16 Classes and Objects II
Chapter 17 Conway’s Game of Life
Chapter 18 Advanced Pythonic Techniques

中文：

书名：无所畏惧的巨蟒

Praise for this book, 无所畏惧的巨蟒

这真是一本很棒的书。我希望我在学习Python的时候就有了它。

-约翰·M·沃戈，《 阿帕奇Cordova 4编程

对该系列的前一本书的赞扬， C++无所畏惧

我很喜欢你的《C++无惧》这本书。它让我晚上几个小时都睡不着觉。多亏了你，我在短短几个小时内就知道了大部分的想法。

-Laura Viral，欧洲核子研究中心和土耳其伊斯坦布尔的物理学研究生

“很难说我从哪里开始，从你的书开始到结束。我感觉自己一觉醒来，真的知道如何编写C++

密码。我不能夸大你给我的信心。

–《财富》500强公司高级程序员兼分析师丹尼·格雷迪

无论您是编程新手还是从另一种语言迁移过来， 无所畏惧的巨蟒 会很快让你的工作效率更高！Brian Overland对Python的独特方法包括：

• 手把手地讲授从最基础的到中级和高级的Python功能
• 通过一行行讲解的例句进行教学
• 重点放在有趣和有用的例子上，包括游戏、图形、数据库应用程序、文件存储、谜题等等！
• How to think “Pythonically” and avoid common “gotchas”

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目录表

第1章与巨蟒相遇
Chapter 2 A Python Safari: Numbers
Chapter 3 Your First Programs
第4章判定和循环
第5章Python列表
第六章列举理解和列举
第7章Python字符串
第8章单字符操作
Chapter 9 Advanced Function Techniques
Chapter 10 Local and Global Variables
Chapter 11 File Ops
第十二章词典和成套词典
第13章矩阵：二维列表
Chapter 14 Winning at Tic-Tac-Toe
第十五章类和对象I
Chapter 16 Classes and Objects II
Chapter 17 Conway’s Game of Life
第十八章高深学派的技巧