BRIDGE THE GAP BETWEEN NOVICE AND PROFESSIONAL You've completed a basic Python programming
tutorial or finished Al Sweigart's bestseller Automate the Boring Stuff with Python. What's
the next step toward becoming a capable confident software developer? Welcome to Beyond the
Basic Stuff with Python. More than a mere collection of advanced syntax and masterful tips for
writing clean code you'll learn how to advance your Python programming skills by using the
command line and other professional tools like code formatters type checkers linters and
version control. Sweigart takes you through best practices for setting up your development
environment naming variables and improving readability then tackles documentation
organization and performance measurement as well as object-oriented design and the Big-O
algorithm analysis commonly used in coding interviews. The skills you learn will boost your
ability to program--not just in Python but in any language. You'll learn: • Coding style and
how to use Python's Black auto-formatting tool for cleaner code • Common sources of bugs and
how to detect them with static analyzers • How to structure the files in your code projects
with the Cookiecutter template tool • Functional programming techniques like lambda and
higher-order functions • How to profile the speed of your code with Python's built-in timeit
and cProfile modules • The computer science behind Big-O algorithm analysis • How to make your
comments and docstrings informative and how often to write them • How to create classes in
object-oriented programming and why they're used to organize code Toward the end of the book
you'll read a detailed source-code breakdown of two classic command-line games the Tower of
Hanoi (a logic puzzle) and Four-in-a-Row (a two-player tile-dropping game) and a breakdown of
how their code follows the book's best practices. You'll test your skills by implementing the
program yourself. Of course no single book can make you a professional software developer. But
Beyond the Basic Stuff with Python will get you further down that path and make you a better
programmer as you learn to write readable code that's easy to debug and perfectly Pythonic
Requirements: Covers Python 3.6 and higher
