The Python Book

Book Description

The Python Book

Discover the power of one of the fastest growing programming languages in the world with this insightful new resource

The Python Book delivers an essential introductory guide to learning Python for anyone who works with data but does not have experience in programming. The author, an experienced data scientist and Python programmer, shows readers how to use Python for data analysis, exploration, cleaning, and wrangling. Readers will learn what in the Python language is important for data analysis, and why.

The Python Book offers readers a thorough and comprehensive introduction to Python that is both simple enough to be ideal for a novice programmer, yet robust to be useful for those more experienced in the language. The book assists budding programmers to gradually increase their skills as they move through the book, always with an understanding of what they are covering and why it is useful. Used by major companies like Google, Facebook, Instagram, Spotify, and more, Python promises to remain central to the programming landscape for years to come.

Containing a thorough discussion of Python programming topics like variables, equalities and comparisons, tuple and dictionary data types, while and for loops, and if statements, readers will also learn:

• How to use highly useful Python programming libraries, including Pandas and Matplotlib
• How to write Python functions and classes
• How to write and use Python scripts
• To deal with different data types within Python

Perfect for statisticians, computer scientists, software programmers, and practitioners working in private industry and medicine, The Python Book will also be of interest to students in any of the aforementioned fields. As it assumes no programming experience or knowledge, the book is ideal for those who work with data and want to learn to use Python to enhance their work.

中文：

书名：巨蟒之书

The Python Book

通过这个富有洞察力的新资源，了解世界上增长最快的编程语言之一的强大功能

这本书为任何使用数据但没有编程经验的人提供了学习Python的基本入门指南。作者是一位经验丰富的数据科学家和Python程序员，他向读者展示了如何使用Python进行数据分析、探索、清理和争论。读者将学习在Python语言中哪些内容对数据分析很重要，以及为什么。

该书为读者提供了一本全面而全面的关于Python的介绍，既简单到适合初学者编程，又健壮，对那些对该语言更有经验的人很有用。这本书帮助初出茅庐的程序员在阅读本书的过程中逐渐提高他们的技能，始终理解他们所涵盖的内容以及为什么它是有用的。被谷歌、Facebook、Instagram、Spotify等大公司使用的Python承诺在未来几年仍将是编程版图的核心。

包含对变量、等式和比较、元组和字典数据类型、While和For循环以及IF语句等Python编程主题的全面讨论，读者还将了解：

• 如何使用非常有用的Python编程库，包括Pandas和Matplotlib
• 如何编写Python函数和类
• 如何编写和使用Python脚本
• 在Python中处理不同的数据类型

非常适合统计学家、计算机科学家、软件程序员和私营行业和医药行业的从业者，而巨蟒图书也将引起上述任何领域的学生的兴趣。由于它假定没有编程经验或知识，因此该书非常适合那些使用数据并希望学习使用Python来增强其工作的人。