Python Workout
Fifty short projects
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The only way to master a skill is to practice. In Python Workout, author Reuven M. Lerner guides you through 50 carefully selected exercises that invite you to flex your programming muscles. As you take on each new challenge, you’ll build programming skill and confidence. The thorough explanations help you lock in what you’ve learned and apply it to your own projects. Along the way, Python Workout provides over four hours of video instruction walking you through the solutions to each exercise and dozens of additional exercises for you to try on your own.
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1 Numeric types
1.1 Useful references
1.2 Number guessing game
1.2.1 Solution
1.2.2 Discussion
1.2.3 Beyond the exercise
1.3 Summing numbers
1.3.1 Solution
1.3.2 Discussion
1.3.3 Beyond the exercise
1.4 Run timing
1.4.1 Solution
1.4.2 Discussion
1.4.3 Beyond the exercise
1.5 Hexadecimal output
1.5.1 Solution
1.5.2 Discussion
1.5.3 Beyond the exercise
1.6 Summary
2 Strings
2.1 Useful references
2.2 Pig Latin
2.2.1 Solution
2.2.2 Discussion
2.2.3 Beyond the exercise
2.3 Pig Latin sentence
2.3.1 Solution
2.3.2 Discussion
2.3.3 Beyond the exercise
2.4 Ubbi Dubbi
2.4.1 Solution
2.4.2 Discussion
2.4.3 Beyond the exercise
2.5 Sorting a string
2.5.1 Solution
2.5.2 Discussion
2.5.3 Beyond the exercise
2.6 Summary
3 Lists and tuples
3.1 First-last
3.1.1 Solution
3.1.2 Discussion
3.1.3 Beyond the exercise
3.2 All A’s
3.2.1 Solution
3.2.2 Discussion
3.2.3 Beyond the exercise
3.3 Summing anything
3.3.1 Solution
3.3.2 Discussion
3.3.3 Beyond the exercise
3.4 Alphabetizing names
3.4.1 Solution
3.4.2 Discussion
3.4.3 Beyond the exercise
3.5 Word with most repeated letters
3.5.1 Solution
3.5.2 Discussion
3.5.3 Beyond the exercise
3.6 Printing tuple records
3.6.1 Solution
3.6.2 Discussion
3.6.3 Beyond the exercise
3.7 Summary
4 Dictionaries and sets
5 Files
6 Functions
7 Functional programming
8 Modules
9 Objects
10 Iterators and generators
Appendixes
Appendix A: Resources
About the Technology
Python is a versatile, elegant, general purpose programming language. Essential for data analysis, web development, artificial intelligence, games, desktop apps, and more, Python skills are a hot commodity. To become a strong Python programmer, you need to practice, learn from the mistakes you make along the way, and practice some more. Immersing yourself in Python exercises is the quickest path to Python fluency… and to enhancing your Python career!About the book
Python Workout presents 50 exercises designed to deepen your skill with Python. You’ll not only tackle exercises using built-in data structures, but also more advanced techniques, such as functional programming, object-oriented programming, iterators, and generators. With each engaging challenge, you’ll practice a new skill and learn how to apply it to everyday coding tasks. You’ll also learn to combine features and techniques to tackle more complex jobs. To enrich your learning experience, author Reuven M. Lerner expands on the solution to each exercise in a series of illuminating videos.What's inside
- 50 hands-on exercises and solutions
- Basic Python sequence types
- Python dictionaries and sets
- Functional programming in Python
- Creating your own classes
- Working with Python objects
- Generator functions
About the author
Reuven M. Lerner, an independent consultant for more than two decades, teaches Python, data science, and Git to companies around the world. His Better developers newsletter and blog are read by thousands of Python developers each week. Reuven has written a monthly column, “At the Forge,” for Linux Journal since 1996 and is a panelist on the weekly Freelancers Show podcast. Reuven lives with his wife and three children in Modi’in, Israel, and can be reached at https://lerner.co.il/ or on Twitter at @reuvenmlerner.
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