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eBook Details: Paperback: 288 pages Publisher: WOW! eBook (November 24, 2023) Language: English ISBN-10: 0138320942 ISBN-13: 978-0138320942 eBook Description: Better Python Code: A Guide for Aspiring Experts: Move Beyond Python Code That “Mostly Works” to Code that is Expressive, Robust, and Efficient Python is arguably the most-used programming language in the world, with applications from primary school education to workaday web development, to the most advanced scientific research institutes. While there are many ways to perform a task in Python, some are wrong, inelegant, or inefficient. Better Python Code: A Guide for Aspiring Experts is a guide to “Pythonic” programming, a collection of best...

eBook Details: Paperback: 416 pages Publisher: WOW! eBook (May 31, 2022) Language: English ISBN-10: 1617299200 ISBN-13: 978-1617299209 eBook Description: Software Mistakes and Tradeoffs: How to make good programming decisions: Optimize the decisions that define your code by exploring the common mistakes and intentional tradeoffs made by expert developers. Code performance versus simplicity. Delivery speed versus duplication. Flexibility versus maintainability every decision you make in software engineering involves balancing tradeoffs. In Software Mistakes and Tradeoffs you’ll learn from costly mistakes that Tomasz Lelek and Jon Skeet have encountered over their impressive careers. You’ll explore real-world scenarios where poor understanding of tradeoffs lead to...