joaoventura/full-speed-python

Full Speed Python: a book for self-learners

Full Speed Python

About

This book aims to teach the Python programming language using a practical approach. Its method is quite simple: after a short introduction to each topic, the reader is invited to learn more by solving the proposed exercises.

These exercises have been used extensively in my web development and distributed computing classes at the Superior School of Technology of Setúbal. With these exercises, most students are up to speed with Python in less than a month. In fact, students of the distributed computing course, taught in the second year of the software engineering degree, become familiar with Python's syntax in two weeks and are able to implement a distributed client-server application with sockets in the third week.

The source of this book is available on github (https://github.com/joaoventura/full-speed-python). I welcome any pull requests to correct misspellings, suggest new exercises or to provide clarification of the current content.

How to get the ebook?

Pdf and epub files can be downloaded from: https://jventura.gumroad.com/l/fullspeedpython. The ebooks are free (as in free beer!), but if you want to support my work and allow me to improve it, you can set any other price.

Building

Run make pdf or make epub to build the books.

This project uses pandoc to build the books. The pdf file is built with pdflatex, so you may need to download a latex distribution.

full-speed-python's Issues

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Feature request: Support for numPy & pandas

Hello!

NumPy & pandas are widely used libraries for arrays / matrix manipulation and data analysis with much use in the areas of Machine Learning and Data Science.

Do you think it makes sense to support this libraries in this full-speed-python book?

Thanks!

An unnecessary proposal, change the white background of the logo to transparent

From Hacker News! Good job, and your repo is reallyawesome, but I want to replace the white background of your repo logo with transparent just because of my dark mode interface!

This is a transparent one! 🤣

Rectangle must have four coordinates and not two

In the Exercises with classes chapter first exercise is to Implement a class named “Rectangle” to store the coordinates of a rectangle given by (x1, y1) and (x2, y2).

What is not clear is how do you make a rectangle with only 2 coordinates? The only thing you can make out of two coordinates is a line segment.

Note that if you explicitly mention the assumption assume the rectangle's sides are parallel to both X and Y axis. then you can actually make a rectangle (which also makes it easier to calculate width and height). See the below example:

Eg. Take two coordinates (2,1) and (4,5) then the coordinates of the rectangle are (2,1), (2,5), (4,1) and (4,5). The width is then (x2 - x1) i.e. 4-2 = 2 and height is simply (y2 - y1) i.e. 5 -1 = 4.

I think the above assumption was made while designing the exercise but is not obvious. I feel adding the assumption would be useful for some of the readers out there, what do you think?

Use Tuft's Textbook Style

LaTeX best practices for modern books can be more easily done with a solid base, consider using a good book template such as Tufte's

https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/book-design-inspired-by-edward-tufte/gcfbtdjfqdjh#.WrDfBGrFJhF

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Links/References to chapters in Introduction chapter missing in epub format

This is how the para is in epub format of the book.

“This book is divided in the following chapters: in chapter I will provide the basic installation instructions and execution of the Python interpreter. In chapter we will talk about the most basic data types, numbers and strings. In chapter we will start tinkering with functions, and in chapter the topic is about "loops". In chapter we will work with dictionaries and finally, in chapter we will finish the book with some exercises about classes and object oriented programming.”

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Typo at Fibonacci sequence function

At the exercises with recursive functions, the 3rd exercise shows the function fib(n), but after it says if x = 0 and if x = 1.