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Tiny Python Projects By Ken Youens-Clark (2020) [AhLaN]

       



by Ken Youens-Clark

Length: 440 pages

Edition: 1

Language: English

Publisher: Manning Publications

Publication Date: 2020-09-01

ISBN-10: 1617297518

ISBN-13: 9781617297519









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... About This Book ...



Tiny Python Projects takes you from amateur to Pythonista as you create 22 bitesize programs. Each tiny project teaches you a new programming concept, from the basics of lists and strings right through to regular expressions and randomness.



Summary

A long journey is really a lot of little steps. The same is true when you’re learning Python, so you may as well have some fun along the way! Written in a lighthearted style with entertaining exercises that build powerful skills, Tiny Python Projects takes you from amateur to Pythonista as you create 22 bitesize programs. Each tiny project teaches you a new programming concept, from the basics of lists and strings right through to regular expressions and randomness. Along the way you’ll also discover how testing can make you a better programmer in any language.



About the technology

Who says learning to program has to be boring? The 21 activities in this book teach Python fundamentals through puzzles and games. Not only will you be entertained with every exercise, but you’ll learn about text manipulation, basic algorithms, and lists and dictionaries as you go. It’s the ideal way for any Python newbie to gain confidence and experience.



About the book

The projects are tiny, but the rewards are big: each chapter in Tiny Python Projects challenges you with a new Python program, including a password creator, a word rhymer, and a Shakespearean insult generator. As you complete these entertaining exercises, you’ll graduate from a Python beginner to a confident programmer—and you’ll have a good time doing it!



What’s inside

Write command-line Python programs

Manipulate Python data structures

Use and control randomness

Write and run tests for programs and functions

Download testing suites for each project

About the reader

For readers with beginner programming skills.



About the author

Ken Youens-Clark is a Senior Scientific Programmer at the University of Arizona. He has an MS in Biosystems Engineering and has been programming for over 20 years.



Table of Contents

1 How to write and test a Python program



2 The crow’s nest: Working with strings



3 Going on a picnic: Working with lists



4 Jump the Five: Working with dictionaries



5 Howler: Working with files and STDOUT



6 Words count: Reading files and STDIN, iterating lists, formatting strings



7 Gashlycrumb: Looking items up in a dictionary



8 Apples and Bananas: Find and replace



9 Dial-a-Curse: Generating random insults from lists of words



10 Telephone: Randomly mutating strings



11 Bottles of Beer Song: Writing and testing functions



12 Ransom: Randomly capitalizing text



13 Twelve Days of Christmas: Algorithm design



14 Rhymer: Using regular expressions to create rhyming words



15 The Kentucky Friar: More regular expressions



16 The Scrambler: Randomly reordering the middles of words



17 Mad Libs: Using regular expressions



18 Gematria: Numeric encoding of text using ASCII values



19 Workout of the Day: Parsing CSV files, creating text table output