Location via proxy:   [ UP ]  
[Report a bug]   [Manage cookies]                
Product details
Format
: Paperback
Type
: Non-fiction
Genre
: Computer
"I never seemed to find the perfect data-oriented Python book for my course, so I set out to write just such a book. Luckily at a faculty meeting three weeks before I was about to start my new book from scratch over the holiday break, Dr. Atul Prakash showed me the Think Python book which he had used to teach his Python course that semester. It is a well-written Computer Science text with a focus on short, direct explanations and ease of learning. The overall book structure has been changed to get to doing data analysis problems as quickly as possible and have a series of running examples and exercises about data analysis from the very beginning. Chapters 2--10 are similar to the Think Python book, but there have been major changes. Number-oriented examples and exercises have been replaced with data- oriented exercises. Topics are presented in the order needed to build increasingly sophisticated data analysis solutions. Some topics like try and except are pulled forward and presented as part of the chapter on conditionals. Functions are given very light treatment until they are needed to handle program complexity rather than introduced as an early lesson in abstraction. Nearly all user-defined functions have been removed from the example code and exercises outside of Chapter 4. The word "recursion"1 does not appear in the book at all. The ultimate goal of all of these changes is a shift from a Computer Science to an Informatics focus is to only include topics into a first technology class that can be useful even if one chooses not to become a professional programmer."--Open Textbook Library.
Details
binding
paperback
language
english
Subject Keyword
Computer/Languages
Target Audience
General/trade
Item Type Keyword
book
Supplier Declared Dg Hz Regulation
not_applicable
Textbook Type
trade
Product Site Launch Date
2016-04-09T05:02:40.124Z