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Author:   Lee Vaughan
Publisher:   No Starch Press,US
Imprint:   No Starch Press,US
Weight:   0.368kg
ISBN:  

9781593278908

ISBN 10:   159327890
Pages:   424
Publication Date:   27 November 2018
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction Chapter 1: Silly Name Generator Chapter 2: Finding Palingram Spells Chapter 3: Solving Anagrams Chapter 4: Decoding American Civil War Ciphers Chapter 5: Encoding English Civil War Ciphers Chapter 6: Writing in Invisible Ink Chapter 7: Breeding Giant Rats with Genetic Algorithms Chapter 8: Counting Syllables for Haiku Poetry Chapter 9: Writing Haiku with Markov Chain Analysis Chapter 10: Are We Alone? Exploring the Fermi Paradox Chapter 11: The Monty Hall Problem Chapter 12: Securing your Nest Egg Chapter 13: Simulating an Alien Volcano Chapter 14: Mapping Mars with the Mars Orbiter Chapter 15: Improving Your Astrophotography with Planet Stacking Chapter 16: Finding Frauds with Benford's Law Appendix: Practice Project Solutions

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Python is a programming language, but it is also fun to play with. This book recognizes that. -Geek Tech Stuff Rather than being an introductory text, Vaughan's book pushes you in interesting directions for solving a diverse set of problems. Most of these impractical projects, while themselves being not so useless after all, will have parallels to real life projects. -Greg Laden, Greg Laden's Blog A must have second book for every developer that ever wants to learn Python as a language. -Ian Mizer, Atlanta Python Programmers Group

Python is a programming language, but it is also fun to play with. This book recognizes that. --Geek Tech Stuff

Author Information

Lee Vaughan is a geologist with over 30 years' experience in the petroleum industry. As the Senior Technical Professional for Geological Modeling at a major international oil company, he was involved in the construction and review of computer models, the development, testing, and commercialization of software, and the training of geoscientists and engineers. An advocate for nonprogrammers who must use programming in their careers, he wrote Impractical Python Projects to help self-learners hone their skills with the Python language.

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