Core Python Applications Programming - Brossura

Chun, Wesley

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0132678209 ISBN 13: 9780132678209

Casa editrice: Pearson P T R, 2012

Riassunto

• Already know Python but want to learn more? A lot more? Dive into a variety of topics used in practice for real-world applications.
• Covers regular expressions, Internet/network programming, GUIs, SQL/databases/ORMs, threading, and Web development.
• Learn about contemporary development trends such as Google+, Twitter, MongoDB, OAuth, Python 3 migration, and Java/Jython. Presents brand new material on Django, Google App Engine, CSV/JSON/XML, and Microsoft Office. Includes Python 2 and 3 code samples to get you started right away!
• Provides code snippets, interactive examples, and practical exercises to help build your Python skills.

The Complete Developer’s Guide to Python

Python is an agile, robust, and expressive programming language that continues to build momentum. It combines the power of compiled languages with the simplicity and rapid development of scripting languages. In Core Python Applications Programming, Third Edition , leading Python developer and corporate trainer Wesley Chun helps you take your Python knowledge to the next level.

 

This book has everything you need to become a versatile Python developer. You will be introduced to multiple areas of application development and gain knowledge that can be immediately applied to projects, and you will find code samples in both Python 2 and 3, including migration tips if that’s on your roadmap too. Some snippets will even run unmodified on 2.x or 3.x.

 

• Learn professional Python style, best practices, and good programming habits
• Build clients and servers using TCP, UDP, XML-RPC, and be exposed to higher-level libraries like SocketServer and Twisted
• Develop GUI applications using Tkinter and other available toolkits
• Improve application performance by writing extensions in C/C++, or enhance I/O-bound code with multithreading
• Discover SQL and relational databases, ORMs, and even non-relational (NonSQL) databases like MongoDB
• Learn the basics of Web programming, including Web clients and servers, plus CGI and WSGI
• Expose yourself to regular expressions and powerful text processing tools for creating and parsing CSV, JSON, and XML data
• Interface with popular Microsoft Office applications such as Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook using COM client programming
• Dive deeper into Web development with the Django framework and cloud computing with Google App Engine
• Explore Java programming with Jython, the way to run Python code on the JVM
• Connect to Web services Yahoo! Finance to get stock quotes, or Yahoo! Mail, Gmail, and others to download or send e-mail
  
• Jump into the social media craze by learning how to connect to the Twitter and Google+ networks

 

Core Python Applications Programming, Third Edition, delivers

• Broad coverage of a variety of areas of development used in real-world applications today
• Powerful insights into current and best practices for the intermediate Python programmer
• Dozens of code examples, from quick snippets to full-fledged applications
• A variety of exercises at the end of every chapter to help hammer the concepts home

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L'autore

Wesley J. Chun is the author of the bestselling Core Python titles and the Python Fundamentals LiveLessons companion video. He is coauthor of Python Web Development with Django (withdjango.com), and has written for Linux Journal, CNET, and InformIT. In addition to being an architect and Developer Advocate at Google, he runs CyberWeb (cyberwebconsulting.com), a consulting business specializing in Python engineering and technical training. He has more than twenty-five years of programming, teaching, and writing experience, including more than a decade of Python. While at Yahoo!, he helped create Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! People Search using Python. He holds degrees in computer science, mathematics, and music from the University of California.

Dalla quarta di copertina

Referred to by readers as “the greatest language book I have every read,” and touted as the best overview of basic principles and strategies for English language teaching, this widely used guide is a one-stop introduction to teaching English to speakers of other languages.

 

Written in Dìaz-Rico's passionate style, the third edition of this highly praised introduction to teaching English to speakers of other languages continues to provide a concise, yet comprehensible overview of the basic principles, practices, and methods most effective for educating English learners. A breakthrough in language teaching and learning, this thought-provoking text includes coverage of second-language-acquisition issues and techniques, as well as attention to such controversial topics as the influence of culture on schooling, the cultural practices of schooling, and the sociopolitical context of education. In it readers have access to the latest developments in standards-based learning and assessment that inform the design of instruction and get a variety of new features in this thoroughly updated edition, including:

 

a description of the unique contributions of non-native-English-speaking teachers make to the teaching of English

• up-to-date information on the demographics of English learners and the demand for English teachers worldwide
• a profile of an elementary school with an innovative social-justice curriculum approach
• suggestions for using learning centers in English-as-a-foreign-language elementary classrooms
• an expanded definition of culture to include a contemporary emphasis on identity
• a critical view on the study of gender and race in the classroom
• new ways to incorporate volunteers into classroom instruction
• ideas for encouraging “virtual volunteering”

 

In addition, project based learning and service learning are creatively combined to offer a variety of ways to link English learners with the larger community. 

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Pearson P T R
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0132678209
• ISBN 13: 9780132678209
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 504