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Kamal Banga edited this page Oct 9, 2018
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Work in Progress 🚧 🏗
This Python 3 wiki is a free mini-book 📘:
- Tutorial: For those who know programming in C++/Java and want to learn Python.
- Reference 📃: Contains common usage with examples
- Idioms 💯: Better/Pythonic ways of doing common tasks
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Common Pitfalls
⁉️ : Most prominent mistakes and Python quirks - Snippets for Fun and Profit: Coding is best learnt by tinkering with common recipes.
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>>>means code is being run on python or ipython repl in terminal
- 📈 Python has had incredible growth and is the fastest-growing major programming language.
- It can do everything data from handling voluminous data (Apache Spark), exploring datasets (Numpy and Pandas), to machine learning (Scikit-learn and PyTorch).
- 🌏 It harbours one of the most used web frameworks (Django).
- 💡 It is dynamically typed and hence the learning curve is easy. It has first-class functions which means you can start learning and using it right away instead of the OOP bloat.
- This book is code-heavy since I myself learnt Python mostly through trying self-contained examples rather than theory.
- Most code snippets are short and to the point so the particular concept can be grasped in a couple minutes.
- Ideas in this book are distilled from many great books and blogposts.
- Prose is succint and emojis filled.
- Solving Sudoku by Peter Norvig
- Spell Correction by Peter Norvig
- DFS and BFS in Python
- Closures in Common Pitfalls chapter is taken from the book Fluent Python.
- Few snippets in Strings section, flattening nested iterable is from the book Python Cookbook, 3rd Ed.
- Central Limit Theorem and Pythagorean triplets snippets in Fun chapter are taken from Raymond Hettinger's tweets. The advice of "Specialized tool beats a general purpose tool" also comes from him.
- DFS in Fun chapter is taken from Edd Mann's blog.
- Example in Floating Point section in Common Pitfalls chapter is taken from Rachel Thomas' Computational Linear Algebra.
- Quicksort snippet has been taken from Python Cookbook, 2nd Ed.