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What are some books for mid to advanced programming in Python? I already know Puthon and programming in general but want to improve my Python skills. I know only Fluent Python which I'm currently reading, and CPython Internals.
I love the Jupyter-/Colab-approach and would like to join the journey... and support the project by buying the book (although I don´t need it to follow the Colab?). But without subscribing to the OReilly-learning platform it seems that buying it on amazon is the only option, right ?
Green Tea Press (by Prof. Downey) has a donate button. That's probably a more efficient means of supporting the project than buying the book, considering all the middlemen.
(I was sharing a table at a conference with Allen some time ago and told him how many times I'd recommended or bought people his books, and I think he thought I was bullshitting him.)
There's Ray, Pyro, Pykka, Celery, multiprocessing, asyncio, threads, Qt, and more, but all of them have issues. And a lot of it boils down to the GIL, although "processes" that are doing I/O such as TCP and other network communication should ideally reduce the GIL effect, to my understanding (is that right?).
From what I can tell, it's basically one of the worst language choices for systems of this nature, but I am trying to figure out how to do it because I need to.
Think Python 2e changed the trajectory of my life. I took a single Java class and hated it so much I gave up on programming. A few years later as a network engineer I had a problem that seemed like it could be scripted and ended up picking up Think Python and fell in love with the language and programming in general.
This is just the sort of thing I needed to read. I am considering changing the trajectory of my own life, towards a more community/maker/teacher role, and I have a freelance/small business idea about teaching but I need sort of "soft syllabus" materials. I am learning Python myself, having just never had a need for it in all of my professional web development life (I've written apps in just about every other web-focu…
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Similar for me - I had learned some Java, Matlab, C, Perl here and there but it wasn’t until Think Python 2e that I was gripped and from there read many other books and changed my career to software.
Couldn't this result be more attributable to Python itself than the book?
(I came across Think Python when I was trying to help other people learn how to program. So I did not learn programming from Think Python, and Python is also not my favourite language. (It's also not my least favourite language, either. Far from it.))
What are some books for mid to advanced programming in Python? I already know Puthon and programming in general but want to improve my Python skills. I know only Fluent Python which I'm currently reading, and CPython Internals.
https://www.redblobgames.com/ has lots of really nifty articles, too.
Tangential, is there a book to learn typing? I feel I need a hefty book to learn typing. Don't mind if you recommend a Typescript book or other language with similar concepts.
You mean types, right? Typing is what you do on a keyboard. If you want to understand type systems, Types and Programming Languages ( https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/tapl/ ) is the book most people start with. If that is too advanced for you, PLAI ( https://www.plai.org/ ) is a gentle introduction to programming language theory which includes type systems.
(By 'reasonably typed' I mean something like Haskell, OCaml, even TypeScript or Facebook's hack. But not Go, C++ or Java.)
Glad to see it evolving!