Real-World Python : A Hacker's Guide to Solving Problems with Code

Lee Vaughan

ISBN 10: 1718500629 / ISBN 13: 9781718500624

Verlag: Random House LLC US Nov 2020, 2020

Beschreibung

Neuware - A project-based approach to learning Python programming for beginners. Intriguing projects teach you how to tackle challenging problems with code.With its emphasis on project-based practice, Real World Python will take you from playing with syntax to writing complete programs in no time. You'll conduct experiments, explore statistical concepts, and solve novel problems that have frustrated geniuses throughout history, like detecting distant exoplanets, as you continue to build your Python skills.Chapters begin with a clearly defined project goal and a discussion of ways to attack the problem, followed by a mission designed to make you think like a programmer. You'll direct a Coast Guard search-and-rescue effort, plot and execute a NASA flight to the moon, protect access to a secure lab using facial recognition, and more. Along the way you'll learn how to: Use libraries like matplotlib, NumPy, Bokeh, pandas, Requests, Beautiful Soup, and turtle Work with Natural Language Processing and computer vision modules like NLTK and OpenCV Write a program to detect and track objects moving across a starfield Scrape speeches from the internet and autosummarize them Use the Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA) map to select spacecraft landing sites Survive a zombie apocalypse with the aid of data-plotting and visualization toolsThe book's programs are beginner-friendly, but as you progress you'll learn more sophisticated techniques to help you grow your coding capabilities. Once your missions are accomplished, you'll be ready to solve real-world problems with Python on your own. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9781718500624

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Titel: Real-World Python : A Hacker's Guide to ...

Verlag: Random House LLC US Nov 2020

Erscheinungsdatum: 2020

Einband: Taschenbuch

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A project-based approach to learning Python programming for beginners. Intriguing projects teach you how to tackle challenging problems with code.

You've mastered the basics. Now you're ready to explore some of Python's more powerful tools. Real-World Python will show you how.

Through a series of hands-on projects, you'll investigate and solve real-world problems using sophisticated computer vision, machine learning, data analysis, and language processing tools. You'll be introduced to important modules like OpenCV, NumPy, Pandas, NLTK, Bokeh, Beautiful Soup, Requests, HoloViews, Tkinter, turtle, matplotlib, and more. You'll create complete, working programs and think through intriguing projects that show you how to:

Save shipwrecked sailors with an algorithm designed to prove the existence of God

Detect asteroids and comets moving against a starfield

Program a sentry gun to shoot your enemies and spare your friends

Select landing sites for a Mars probe using real NASA maps

Send unbreakable messages based on a book code

Survive a zombie outbreak using data science

Discover exoplanets and alien megastructures orbiting distant stars

Test the hypothesis that we're all living in a computer simulation

And more!

If you're tired of learning the bare essentials of Python Programming with isolated snippets of code, you'll relish the relevant and geeky fun of Real-World Python!

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor:

Lee Vaughan is a programmer, pop culture enthusiast, educator, and author of Impractical Python Projects
(No Starch Press). As a former executive-level scientist at ExxonMobil, he spent decades constructing and reviewing complex computer models, developed and tested software, and trained geoscientists and engineers.