Impractical Python Projects

Playful Programming Activities to Make You Smarter

Lee Vaughan

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No Starch Press,US
15 November 2018

Web programming

"Impractical Python Projects is a collection of fun and educational projects designed to entertain programmers while enhancing their Python skills.

It picks up where the complete beginner books leave off, expanding on existing concepts and introducing new tools that you'll use every day. And to keep things interesting, each project includes a zany twist featuring historical incidents, pop culture references, and literary allusions.

Impractical Python Projects is a collection of fun and educational projects designed to entertain programmers while enhancing their Python skills.

It picks up where the complete beginner books leave off, expanding on existing concepts and introducing new tools that you'll use every day. And to keep things interesting, each project includes a zany twist featuring historical incidents, pop culture references, and literary allusions.

You'll flex your problem-solving skills and employ Python's many useful libraries to do things like- - Help James Bond crack a high-tech safe with a hill-climbing algorithm

- Write haiku poems using Markov Chain Analysis - Use genetic algorithms to breed a race of gigantic rats - Crack the world's most successful military cipher using cryptanalysis - Derive the anagram, ""I am Lord Voldemort"" using linguistical sieves

- Plan your parents' secure retirement with Monte Carlo simulation - Save the sorceress Zatanna from a stabby death using palingrams - Model the Milky Way and calculate our odds of detecting alien civilizations - Help the world's smartest woman win the Monty Hall problem argument - Reveal Jupiter's Great Red Spot using optical stacking - Save the head of Mary, Queen of Scots with steganography - Foil corporate security with invisible electronic ink

Simulate volcanoes, map Mars, and more, all while gaining valuable experience using free modules like Tkinter, matplotlib, Cprofile, Pylint, Pygame, Pillow, and Python-Docx.

Whether you're looking to pick up some new Python skills or just need a pick-me-up, you'll find endless educational, geeky fun with Impractical Python Projects."

By: Lee Vaughan
Imprint: No Starch Press,US
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 180mm,
Weight: 368g
ISBN: 9781593278908
ISBN 10: 159327890X
Pages: 488
Publication Date: 15 November 2018
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Lee Vaughan is a geologist with over 30 years' experience in the petroleum industry. As the Senior Technical Professional for Geological Modeling at Exxon Mobil Corporation, he was involved in the construction and review of computer models, the development, testing, and commercialization of software, and the training of geoscientists and engineers. An advocate for nonprogrammers who must use programming in their careers, he wrote Impractical Python to help self-learners hone their skills with the Python language.

Reviews for Impractical Python Projects: Playful Programming Activities to Make You Smarter

Python is a programming language, but it is also fun to play with. This book recognizes that. -Geek Tech Stuff Rather than being an introductory text, Vaughan's book pushes you in interesting directions for solving a diverse set of problems. Most of these impractical projects, while themselves being not so useless after all, will have parallels to real life projects. -Greg Laden, Greg Laden's Blog A must have second book for every developer that ever wants to learn Python as a language. -Ian Mizer, Atlanta Python Programmers Group