Actionable Python: A Course for New Python Programmers

This book is a course on Python for new developers. It begins with setting up your development environment and takes you gradually through all major features that most Python developers need to know, including... Here is just some of what you will learn…

1. To set up your environment for Python development.
2. To write your own Python modules and functions.
3. To use Python to do math.
4. To index, slice, search, and format text.
5. To work with lists and dictionaries and other Python iterables.
6. To create virtual environments to contain your Python projects.
7. To write conditional and flow-control logic.
8. To gracefully handle errors in your programs.
9. To work with dates and times in Python.
10. To open files from the filesystem and to create, edit, delete, and move files.
11. To style your Python code according to industry standards.
12. To work with regular expressions for pattern matching.
13. To work with data from CSV files, web pages, XML, JSON, and databases.
14. To test and debug your code.
15. To write object-oriented Python.
16. To do data analysis and create beautiful charts using JupyterLab, NumPy, pandas, and matplotlib.

This is the second edition of the book. The former title was Python 3.8. This edition includes three additional lessons covering data analysis with JupyterLab, NumPy, and pandas.