“Impractical” Python: fun projects for those who want to get smart
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This book is a collection of fun, yet educational, projects designed to entertain programmers while improving their skills. It's a good complement to traditional self-study books, a great "next book" that expands on previously learned skills and introduces useful new tools.
Each project includes an intriguing twist with historical events, literary characters, or pop culture references - all using the tkinter, matplotlib, cProfile, Pylint, pygame, pillow, and python-docx modules.
Practice solving problems to:
- Help James Bond crack a high-tech safe using a hill-climbing algorithm
- Compose poetry using Markov chain analysis
- Generate a race of giant rats using genetic algorithms
- Plan for a comfortable retirement using Monte Carlo simulation
- Model the Milky Way and calculate our chances of finding alien civilizations
- Map Mars and study orbital mechanics using your own space satellite
And much more! Whether you're looking to pick up a few new programming skills or just want to practice your creativity, this book will give you endless amounts of fun and make you a programming fan.
Each project includes an intriguing twist with historical events, literary characters, or pop culture references - all using the tkinter, matplotlib, cProfile, Pylint, pygame, pillow, and python-docx modules.
Practice solving problems to:
- Help James Bond crack a high-tech safe using a hill-climbing algorithm
- Compose poetry using Markov chain analysis
- Generate a race of giant rats using genetic algorithms
- Plan for a comfortable retirement using Monte Carlo simulation
- Model the Milky Way and calculate our chances of finding alien civilizations
- Map Mars and study orbital mechanics using your own space satellite
And much more! Whether you're looking to pick up a few new programming skills or just want to practice your creativity, this book will give you endless amounts of fun and make you a programming fan.
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- All books by the publisher
- All books by the author
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