Real-World Python: A Hacker's Guide to Solving Problems with Code

About this book

A project-based approach to learning Python programming for beginners. Intriguing projects teach you how to tackle challenging problems with code. Youve mastered the basics. Now youre ready to explore some of Pythons more powerful tools. Real-World Python will show you how. Through a series of hands-on projects youll investigate and solve real-world problems using sophisticated computer vision machine learning data analysis and language processing tools. Youll be introduced to important modules like OpenCV NumPy Pandas NLTK Bokeh Beautiful Soup Requests HoloViews Tkinter turtle matplotlib and more. Youll create complete working programs and think through intriguing projects that show you how to: Save shipwrecked sailors with an algorithm designed to prove the existence of God Detect asteroids and comets moving against a starfield Program a sentry gun to shoot your enemies and spare your friends Select landing sites for a Mars probe using real NASA maps Send unbreakable messages based on a book code Survive a zombie outbreak using data science Discover exoplanets and alien megastructures orbiting distant stars Test the hypothesis that were all living in a computer simulation And more! If youre tired of learning the bare essentials of Python Programming with isolated snippets of code youll relish the relevant and geeky fun of Real-World Python!