Learn Python: Step-by-Step

Quickly jumpstart your Python learning. This is example-driven, short & to the point and is designed to get you quickly started with Python.

Value developer productivity over anything else? Want to get more done in fewer lines of code? Python is our best bet. It’s a high-level object oriented programming language similar to Perl or Java. We can use Python for a variety of usages, like:

• Web / GUI apps
• Scientific & numeric apps
• Automation

This book is best suited for beginners with programming basics. All required concepts will be introduced as & when needed so that we can quickly learn & try stuff out.

The major chapters include:

• Introduction
• Setting up our development environment
• First impressions & expressions
• Introducing built-in functions
• Our first true program
• Refactoring to functions & introducing lists
• Building a multiplication table
• Evens & odds
• Handling exceptions
• Bulk processing files
• Adding more math & introducing modules
• Next steps

Let’s learn python today!