The Well-Grounded Python Developer, Version 1

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The Well-Grounded Python Developer MEAP V03 Copyright Welcome Brief contents 1: Becoming a Pythonista 1.1 Who is the intended audience? 1.2 Being a developer 1.2.1 Solving Problems 1.2.2 Process 1.2.3 Your Customers 1.2.4 Commitment to Learning 1.3 Reaching goals 1.3.1 Thinking like a developer 1.3.2 Building Applications 1.4 Using Python 1.4.1 The Syntax 1.4.2 Variables 1.4.3 Programming Paradigms 1.4.4 Creating Maintainable Code 1.4.5 The Language Community 1.4.6 The Developer Tooling 1.4.7 Performance 1.5 Version of Python to use 1.6 Summary 2: Your Python Environment 2.1 Installing Python 2.1.1 Windows 2.1.2 Mac 2.1.3 Linux 2.2 Python Virtual Environment 2.2.1 Windows 2.2.2 Mac and Linux 2.3 Setting up Visual Studio Code 2.3.1 Installing Visual Studio Code 2.3.2 Installing Python Extension 2.3.3 Other Useful Extensions 2.3.4 Starting From the Command Line 2.3.5 Starting a Project 2.4 Some Advice 2.5 Summary 3: Names and Namespaces 3.1 Names 3.1.1 Naming Things 3.1.2 Naming Experiment 3.2 Namespaces 3.3 Python Namespaces 3.3.1 BuiltIns Level 3.3.2 Module Level 3.3.3 Function Level 3.3.4 Namespace Scope 3.3.5 Namespace Experiment 3.4 Summary 4: Application Programming Interface 4.1 Application Programmers Interface 4.1.1 A Contract Between Pieces Of Code 4.1.2 What's Passed As Input 4.1.3 What's Expected As Output 4.2 Function API 4.2.1 Naming 4.2.2 Arguments 4.2.3 Return Value 4.2.4 Single Responsibility 4.2.5 Function Length 4.2.6 Idempotent 4.2.7 Side Effects 4.3 Documentation 4.4 Summary 5: Object-Oriented Coding 5.1 Object-oriented 5.1.1 Class Definition 5.1.2 Drawing With Class 5.1.3 Inheritance 5.1.4 Polymorphism 5.1.5 Composition 5.2 Summary 6: Exception Handling 6.1 Exceptions 6.2 Handling Exceptions 6.2.1 Handle An Exception If The Code Can Do Something About It 6.2.2 Allow Exceptions To Flow Upward In Your Programs 6.2.3 Never Silence An Exception 6.3 Raising An Exception 6.4 Creating Your Own Exceptions 6.5 Summary