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David Beazley is an independent author, educator, and researcher primarily known for his contributions in the Python community. Dave's early career focused on high-performance scientific software and ultimately led to the creation of Swig, a compiler that allowed existing C/C++ software to be scripted from Python and other dynamic languages.
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The material you see here is the heart of an instructor-led Pythontraining course used for corporate training and professionaldevelopment. It was in continual development from 2007 to 2019 andbattle tested in real-world classrooms. Usually, it’s taughtin-person over the span of three or four days–requiring approximately25-35 hours of intense work. ...
Students of this course are usually professional scientists,engineers, and programmers who already have experience in at least oneother programming language. No prior knowledge of Python is required,but knowledge of common programming topics is assumed. Mostparticipants find the course challenging–even if they’ve already beendoing a bit of Python p...
The goal of this course is to cover foundational aspects of Pythonprogramming with an emphasis on script writing, basic data manipulation, andprogram organization. By the end of this course, students should beable to start writing useful Python programs on their own or be ableto understand and modify Python code written by theircoworkers.
To complete this course, you need nothing more than a basicinstallation of Python 3.6 or newer and time to work on it.
This is not a course for absolute beginners on how to program acomputer. It is assumed that you already have programming experiencein some other programming language or Python itself. This is not a course on web development. That’s a differentcircus. However, if you stick around for this circus, you’ll still seesome interesting acts–just nothing in...
Want to discuss the course? You can join the conversation onGitter. I can’tpromise an individual response, but perhaps others can jump in to help.
Llorenç Muntaner was instrumental in converting the course content fromApple Keynote to the online structure that you see here. Various instructors have presented this course at one time or anotherover the last 12 years. This includes (in alphabetical order): NedBatchelder, Juan Pablo Claude, Mark Fenner, Michael Foord, MattHarrison, Raymond Hettin...
Q: Are there course videos I can watch?
No. This course is about you writing Python code, not watching someone else.
Q: How is this course licensed?
Practical Python Programming is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Q: May I use this material to teach my own Python course?
Yes, as long as appropriate attribution is given.
Dabeaz is David Beazley, a computer scientist, educator, and researcher with more than 35 years of experience. Dave has been most visible in the Python community where he has created various software packages , given conference talks , tutorials , and is known as the author of Python Distilled (Addison-Wesley) , the Python Essential Reference ...
David Beazley. dabeaz. Author of the Python Essential Reference (Addison-Wesley), Python Cookbook (O'Reilly), and former computer science professor. Come take a class!
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Students of this course are usually professional scientists, engineers, and programmers who already have experience in at least one other programming language. No prior knowledge of Python is required, but knowledge of common programming topics is assumed.
David Beazley is the author of The Python Essential Reference (Addison-Wesley), The Python Cookbook, 3rd Ed (O'Reilly Media), and creator of several Python-related packages including Swig (http://www.swig.org), PLY (http://www.dabeaz.com/ply), and Curio (https://github.com/dabeaz/curio).
About the Instructor. The course is taught by David Beazley, author of the Python Distilled (Addison-Wesley) and Python Cookbook, 3rd Edition (O'Reilly Media). David has been actively involved with the Python community since 1996 and was one of the early adopters of Python with scientific software.
