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Python All-in-One For Dummies
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Python All-in-One For Dummies

by John Shovic, Alan Simpson
May 2019
Beginner
704 pages
16h 29m
English
For Dummies
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Chapter 4

Building Your First Python Application

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Open the Python app file

Bullet Typing and using Python comments

Bullet Understanding Python data types

Bullet Doing work with Python operators

Bullet Creating and using variables

Bullet What syntax is and why it matters

Bullet Putting code together

So you want to build an application in Python, huh? Whether you want to code a website, analyze data, or create a script for automating something, this chapter gives you all the basics you need to get started on your journey. Most people use programming languages like Python to create application programs, which are often referred to as just applications or just programs or even apps for short. To create apps, you need to know how to write code inside a code editor. You also need to start learning the language (Python, ...

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