The Self-taught Programmer: The Definitive Guide to by Cory Althoff

By Cory Althoff

I'm a self-taught programmer. After a 12 months of self-study, I discovered to application good adequate to land a role as a software program engineer II at eBay. as soon as I bought there, i noticed i used to be critically under-prepared. i used to be crushed through the volume of items i wished to grasp yet hadn't discovered but. My trip studying to software, and my event at my first task as a software program engineer have been the muse for this ebook.

This e-book isn't just approximately studying to software; even though you are going to learn how to code. as a way to software professionally, it isn't sufficient to profit to code; this is the reason, as well as aiding you learn how to application, I additionally disguise the remainder of the belongings you want to know to software professionally that sessions and books do not train you. "The Self-taught Programmer" is a roadmap, a consultant to take you from writing your first Python application, to passing your first technical interview. I divided the publication into six sections:

1. discover ways to application in Python three and construct your first application.
2. examine Object-oriented programming and create a robust Python software to get you hooked.
3. learn how to use instruments like Git, Bash, usual expressions and databases. Then use your new coding talents to construct an online scraper.
4. research laptop technological know-how basics together with desktop structure, facts constructions, algorithms and community programming.
5. discover ways to software for creation: I hide the software program improvement procedure, trying out, and top coding practices.
6. end with assistance for operating with a workforce and touchdown a programming job.

You CAN learn how to software professionally. the trail is there. Will you're taking it?

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Space between statements does not affect the code. Sometimes spaces are used between statements to make code more readable: print ( "Michael" ) print ( "Jordan" ) >> Michael >> Jordan Vocabulary comment : A line (or part of a line) of code written in English (or another language) preceded by a special symbol that lets the programming language you are using know it should ignore that line (or part of a line) of code. keyword : A word with a special meaning in Python. com/lang/python/keywords constant : A value that never changes.

Sometimes a piece of code is long and takes up more than one line. """ ) I will explain the rules for extending lines of Python code in Part V. Keywords The Python language has a list of words with special meaning. These are called keywords . for is a keyword we’ve already seen that is used to execute code multiple times. We will learn more keywords throughout this chapter. Spacing Let’s take another look at our program that prints Hello, World! " ) As I noted earlier, print is indented by four spaces.

Functions “Functions should do one thing. They should do it well. ” — Robert C. Martin A function is a compound statement that can take input, execute instructions, and optionally return an output. Calling a function means giving the function the input it needs toso it can execute its instructions and optionally return an output. Functions in Python are similar to functions in math. If you don’t remember functions from algebra, here is an example: # the following is algebra, not Python code f(x) = x * 2 The left half of the equation defines a function f —that takes one parameter— x .

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