Preface
“There’s gold in them thar hills!”1
1Source unknown, frequently misattributed to Mark Twain.
Welcome to Python for Programmers! In this book, you’ll learn hands-on with today’s most compelling, leading-edge computing technologies, and you’ll program in Python—one of the world’s most popular languages and the fastest growing among them.
Developers often quickly discover that they like Python. They appreciate its expressive power, readability, conciseness and interactivity. They like the world of open-source software development that’s generating a rapidly growing base of reusable software for an enormous range of application areas.
For many decades, some powerful trends have been in place. Computer hardware has rapidly been getting faster, ...
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