Table of Contents

• Chapter 1: Rapid Introduction to Procedural Programming
• Chapter 2: Data Types
• Chapter 3: Collection Data Types
• Chapter 4: Control Structures and Functions
• Chapter 5: Modules
• Chapter 6: Object-Oriented Programming
• Chapter 7: File Handling
• Chapter 8: Advanced Programming Techniques
• Chapter 9: Debugging, Testing, and Profiling
• Chapter 10: Processes and Threading
• Chapter 11: Networking
• Chapter 12: Database Programming
• Chapter 13: Regular Expressions
• Chapter 14: Introduction to Parsing
• Chapter 15: Introduction to GUI Programming

About the Author

Mark Summerfield, owner of Qtrac Ltd., is an independent trainer, consultant, technical editor, and writer specializing in Python, C++, Qt, and PyQt. His books include Rapid GUI Programming with Python and Qt: The Definitive Guide to PyQt Programming (Addison-Wesley, 2008) and, cowritten with Jasmin Blanchette, C++ GUI Programming with Qt 4 (Addison-Wesley, 2006). As Trolltech’s documentation manager, Mark founded and edited Trolltech’s technical journal, Qt Quarterly.

Reviews

“…Fulfills the immediate market need for those developers seeking to learn this latest evolutionary version of the Python lineage in a succinct, well-written package.” –Mike Riley, Contributing Editor for Dr. Dobb’s   “Beyond the introduction to programming in Python 3 in the first chapter, if you progress through the first six chapters in sequence, you’ll be well on your way to taking off with using Python independently.” –James Pyles, Technical Writer and Author of the blog “A Million Chimpanzees”   “…A key recommendation for any serious computer library strong in web programming languages.” –Jim Cox, Midwest Book Review   “Summerfield’s book is an excellent source to start learning Python 3.” –Anthony J. Duben, Computing Reviews