Exercises in Programming Style, 2nd Edition

Preface to the Second Edition

In the six years since the first edition of this book was published, two things happened that made me want to update the book. The first one was the wide adoption of Python 3. The original edition had all its code in Python 2, which has now reached its official end of life. This second edition updates all the code to Python 3.

But the second, and most important, thing that happened since 2014 was the dizzying developments in machine learning, more specifically, in neural networks (NNs). By 2018, I felt it was my duty, and personal challenge, to capture the basic programming concepts in neural networks in exactly the same way I had done for all other concepts: by doing term frequency in neural networks. This led ...