You shouldn’t miss this chapter. Take it as seriously as the succeeding chapters. It’s not necessary but it’s highly recommended to read a book front-cover to back-cover in order to get the maximum out of it. Or to simplify things, let’s put it this way: imagine this book is a movie. Now, this chapter is pretty much the first 15 minutes of the movie. You most definitely don’t want to miss them!
Throughout this book, I will use Python programming, and surely you will find something new that you didn’t know, so you should be clear about the concepts regardless of the ...