Marketplace books
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Beginning Python: From Novice to Professional (Beginning: From Novice to Professional)
by Magnus Lie Hetland
Beginning Python: From Novice to Professional is the most comprehensive book on the Python ever written. Advanced topics, such as extending Python and packaging/distributing Python applications, are also covered. Ten different projects illustrate the concepts introduced in the book. You will learn how to create a P2P file-sharing application and a web-based bulletin board, and how to remotely edit web-based documents and create games.
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Foundations of Python Network Programming
by John Goerzen
This may be the easiest book review I've ever written. If you program in Python and you want to write Internet applications, go buy Foundations of Python Network Programming by John Goerzen. There. I've already folded down the corners of quite a few pages, and expect I'll refer to this book often in the coming months. — Greg Wilson, Dr. I think Apress is bringing a lot of helpful programming texts to the world.
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Beginning Game Development with Python and Pygame: From Novice to Professional (Beginning from Novice to Professional)
by Will McGugan
Like music and movies, video games are rapidly becoming an integral part of our lives. Over the years, you’ve yearned for every new gaming console, mastered each blockbuster within weeks after its release, and have even won a local gaming competition or two. But lately you’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about a game idea of your own, or are exploring the possibility of making a career of this vibrant and growing industry. But where should you begin?
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Practical Django Projects (Pratical Projects)
by James Bennett
Build a django content management system, blog, and social networking site with James Bennett as he introduces the popular Django framework. You’ll work through the development of each project, implementing and running the applications while learning new features along the way.
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Practical Python
by Magnus Lie Hetland
My plan to start seriously learning Python begins with Practical Python... This book properly blends programming concepts with design concepts...and cements its lessons with entertaining examples. — Craig Banker, Baton Rouge Linux User Group Practical Python offers a highly useful guide to the Python programming language. In disarmingly readable prose, author Magnus Lie Hetland guides you through those concepts of most importance to the budding Python developer.
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Text Processing in Python
by David Mertz
Text Processing in Python describes techniques for manipulation of text using the Python programming language. At the broadest level, text processing is simply taking textual information and doing something with it. This might be restructuring or reformatting it, extracting smaller bits of information from it, or performing calculations that depend on the text. Text processing is arguably what most programmers spend most of their time doing.
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Python 2.1 Bible
by Dave Brueck, Stephen Tanner
The Python 2.1 Bible provides the only complete Python language reference on the market and includes all the information and software that developers need to use Python as a rapid application development tool. The Python 2.1 Bible fills a critical void in the Python reference market. Although it includes a complete Python language reference section, it is still geared towards those of you who already have some programming experience.
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Essential SQLAlchemy
by Rick Copeland
Essential SQLAlchemy introduces a high-level open-source code library that makes it easier for Python programmers to access relational databases such as Oracle, DB2, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLite. SQLAlchemy has become increasingly popular since its release, but it still lacks good offline documentation. This practical book fills the gap, and because a developer wrote it, you get an objective look at SQLAlchemy's tools rather than an advocate's description of all the "cool" features.
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The Python Language Reference Manual
by Guido Van Rossum
This manual is the definitive language reference for Python. It describes the syntax of Python and its built-in datatypes in depth. Python is an interpreted object-oriented programming language, suitable for rapid application development and scripting. Python's syntax emphasizes readability, which reduces the cost of program maintenance.
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Python (Visual QuickStart Guide)
by Chris Fehily
UntitledNamed after the Monty Python comedy troupe, Python is an interpreted, open-source, object-oriented programming language. It's also free and runs portably on Windows, Mac OS, Unix, and other operating systems. Python can be used for all manner of programming tasks, from CGI scripts to full-fledged applications.
Events coming up
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Apr
17
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.