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The Quick Python Book
by Vern Ceder
The Quick Python Book, Second Edition, is a clear, concise introduction to Python 3, aimed at programmers new to Python. This updated edition includes all the changes in Python 3, itself a significant shift from earlier versions of Python. The book begins with basic but useful programs that teach the core features of syntax, control flow, and data structures.
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The Definitive Guide to Django: Web Development Done Right, Second Edition
by Adrian Holovaty, Jacob KaplanMoss
This latest edition of The Definitive Guide to Django is updated for Django 1.1, and, with the forward–compatibility guarantee that Django now provides, should serve as the ultimate tutorial and reference for this popular framework for years to come. Django, the Python–based equivalent to Ruby’s Rails web development framework, is one of the hottest topics in web development today.
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Dive Into Python
by Mark Pilgrim
Whether you're an experienced programmer looking to get into Python or grizzled Python veteran who remembers the days when you had to import the string module, Dive Into Python is your 'desert island' Python book. As a complete newbie to the language?I constantly had those little thoughts like, 'this is the way a programming language should be taught.
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The Definitive Guide to Plone
by Andy McKay
"Enjoyable to read?it has plenty of cautionary notes, hints, and other bits of advice that keep the reader awake and interested." ? Samuel Sotillo, ZopeMag.com This unique guide to Plone covers everything from installing Plone (on Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux) to writing code for the system. As part of the Apress library of Python programming and content management tools, The Definitive Guide to Plone is authored by a member of Plone's core development team, Andy McKay.
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The Definitive Guide to SQLite
by Mike Owens
The Definitive Guide to SQLite is the perfect book about SQLite. It covers everything needed to start working with SQLite including installation, using the SQLite shell, and programming with SQLite using six different language extensions. — Joe Topjian, Adminspotting Traditional relational databases and embedded databases both have shortcomings that can leave a developer perplexed.
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Beginning Python Visualization: Crafting Visual Transformation Scripts (Books for Professionals by Professionals)
by Shai Vaingast
We are visual animals. But before we can see the world in its true splendor, our brains, just like our computers, have to sort and organize raw data, and then transform that data to produce new images of the world. Beginning Python Visualization: Crafting Visual Transformation Scripts talks about turning many types of small data sources into useful visual data. And you will learn Python as part of the bargain.
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Pro Django (Expert's Voice in Web Development)
by Marty Alchin
Django is the leading Python web application development framework. Learn how to leverage the Django web framework to its full potential in this advanced tutorial and reference. Endorsed by Django, Pro Django more or less picks up where The Definitive Guide to Django left off and examines in greater detail the unusual and complex problems that Python web application developers can face and how to solve them.
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The Definitive Guide to Django: Web Development Done Right
by Adrian Holovaty, Jacob KaplanMoss
Django, the Python–based equivalent to the Ruby on Rails web development framework, is presently one of the hottest topics in web development today. In The Definitive Guide to Django: Web Development Done Right, Adrian Holovaty, one of Django’s creators, and Django lead developer Jacob Kaplan–Moss show you how they use this framework to create award–winning web sites.
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Beginning Python: From Novice to Professional, Second Edition (Beginning from Novice to Professional)
by Magnus Lie Hetland
Gain a fundamental understanding of Python’s syntax and features with the second edition of Beginning Python, an up–to–date introduction and practical reference. Covering a wide array of Python–related programming topics, including addressing language internals, database integration, network programming, and web services, you’ll be guided by sound development principles. Ten accompanying projects will ensure you can get your hands dirty in no time.
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Foundations of Agile Python Development (Expert's Voice in Open Source)
by Jeff Younker
You’ve long been enamored with the Python language, and have mastered its many nuances. Yet something seems to be missing—a productivity boost that you know is possible but you’re not sure how to go about it. This was the sentiment of so many developers before discovering Agile programming paradigm, which embraces concepts such as automation, effective code management, and test–driven development.
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Apr
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WebTech Conference 2010 - Bulgaria
Veliko Turnovo, Bulgaria
6th edition of WebTech conference will be held. A 2 day conference about : - Web Technologies - Blogs and blogging - Web 3.0 - Open Web - Mobile technologies - Internet Business
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May
19
Google I/O 2010
San Francisco, United States
Google's largest developer event returns to San Francisco in 2010. Google I/O brings together thousands of developers for two days of highly technical content, focused on pushing the boundaries of web applications through open web technologies and Google developer products like App Engine, Google Web Toolkit, Android, Chrome, APIs, and more. Early registration for Google I/O will open in January 2010.