Python for Programmers

Written for programmers with a background in another high-level language, this book uses hands-on instruction to teach today's most compelling, leading-edge computing technologies and programming in Pythonone of the world's most popular and fastest-growing languages. Please read the Table of Contents diagram inside the front cover and the Preface for more details.Table of Content :Chapter 1: Introduction to Computers and PythonChapter 2: Introduction to Python ProgrammingChapter 3: Control StatementsChapter 4: FunctionsChapter 5: Sequences: Lists and TuplesChapter 6: Dictionaries and SetsChapter 7: Array-Oriented Programming with NumPyChapter 8: Strings: A Deeper LookChapter 9: Files and ExceptionsChapter 10: Object-Oriented ProgrammingChapter 11: Natural Language Processing (NLP)Chapter 12: Data Mining TwitterChapter 13: IBM Watson and Cognitive ComputingChapter 14: Machine Learning: Classification, Regression and ClusteringChapter 15: Deep LearningChapter 16: Big Data: Hadoop, Spark, NoSQL and IoTSalient Features :.500+ hands-on, real-world, live-code examples from snippets to case studies· IPython + code in Jupyter® Notebooks· Library-focused: Uses Python Standard Library and data science libraries to accomplish significant tasks with minimal code· Rich Python coverage: Control statements, functions, strings, files, JSON serialization, CSV, exceptions· Procedural, functional-style and object-oriented programming"