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Up and Running with Python

Up and Running with Python

with Joe Marini

 


Get a quick intro to Python, the popular and highly readable object-oriented language. Joe Marini provides an overview of the installation process, basic Python syntax, and an example of how to construct and run a simple Python program. Learn to work with dates and times, read and write files, and retrieve and parse HTML, JSON, and XML data from the web.
Topics include:
  • Installing Python
  • Choosing an editor/IDE
  • Working with variables and expressions
  • Writing loops
  • Using the date, time, and datetime classes
  • Reading and writing files
  • Fetching Internet data
  • Parsing and processing HTML

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author
Joe Marini
subject
Developer, Programming Languages
software
Python
level
Beginner
duration
2h 24m
released
Jul 19, 2013

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Joe Marini

Joe Marini

Joe Marini is a Senior Developer Advocate at Google, and has worked in the web and software industries for more than 20 years. He was an original member of the Dreamweaver engineering team at Macromedia, and held prominent early roles in creating products such as QuarkXPress, Microsoft Expression Blend, mFactory’s mTropolis, and Extensis QX-Tools. He is regularly a featured speaker at industry conferences and has authored or co-authored several publications on web and software development. Prior to Google, Joe was responsible for the mobile web developer platform for Windows Phone 7 at Microsoft. His book, The Document Object Model, is widely regarded as the definitive resource for working with the DOM.
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