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Lee Vaughan is a programmer, pop culture enthisiast, educator, and author of Impractical Python Projects (No Starch Press). As a former executive-level scientist at ExxonMobil, he spent decades constructing and reviewing complex computer models, developed and tested software, and trained visa mer geoscientists and engineers. visa färre

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After coming out of environmental consulting, where my tools involved janky Excel templates, clunky ancient bespoke programs, and absurdly expensive, finicky GUIs for open-source modelling tools, I knew I there had to be a better way. And this book was exactly what I needed. It gives precisely enough Python knowledge to not feel lost, and then introduces all of the essentials to scientific computing and data science. It's not a mastery of any of the tools, but rather a springboard to figure out which tools you need and where to find out more if/when needed. The entire time I was working through the book, I could reach back to examples from my work where having Python would have made my tasks so much more efficient, not to mention the stuff that would've been nice to have but was impossible without actual programmability.

Any complaints I have are minimal, but I think the last few chapters (on the extensive Python tools) would have worked better as a set of guided projects to work through rather than using an assortment of one-liners and code blocks to show off each of the tool's features. I think capabilities with respect to deliverables would have been nice to see, as well as an introduction/reinforcement of programming project management best practices.
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mdimitro | Jan 2, 2024 |
If you know a little Python, this collection of projects is a lot of fun. It includes applications that find anagrams, decode various ciphers, write haikus, and a simple image stacker for planetary astrophotography. Many Python modules and programming techniques are introduced.
 
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