Haythem Balti - Job Ready Python

1. Chapter 4
2. Chapter 5
3. Chapter 6
4. Chapter 8
5. Chapter 10

1. Chapter 1
2. Chapter 3
3. Chapter 5
4. Chapter 7
5. Chapter 8
6. Chapter 15
7. Appendix A
8. Appendix C
9. Appendix D
10. Appendix E
11. Appendix F

HAYTHEM BALTI
CO-AUTHORED BY KIMBERLY A. WEISS

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Haythem Balti is the dean of education solutions at the mthree Global Academy and director of curriculum at Software Guild. Haythem created courses used by thousands of mthree and Software Guild graduates. He earned his doctorate in computer engineering and computer science from The University of Louisville.

Kimberly A. Weiss is a senior instructional designer at the mthree Global Academy and a veteran course developer, specializing in computer science courses since 2002. She was an assistant professor in computer science for over ten years before deciding to focus exclusively on course design. She has worked with multiple universities and in corporate training settings to develop interactive instructional content appropriate for the target learners and course goals.

Bradley Jones is the owner of Lots of Software, LLC. He has programmed in a variety of languages and tools ranging from C to Unity on platforms ranging from Windows to mobile and includes the web as well as a little bit of virtual reality for fun. In addition to programming, he has authored books on C, C++, C#, Windows, the web, and many more technical topics and a few nontechnical topics. Bradley has been recognized in the industry as a community influencer and has been recognized as a Microsoft MVP, a CODiE Judge, an international technology speaker, a bestselling technical author, and more.

Doug Holland is a software engineer at Microsoft with over twenty years of experience designing and developing software. He really enjoys applying the art and science of software engineering to real-world problems and holds a master's degree from Oxford University in software engineering.

Although Kim and Haythem are the main authors of this book, this book would not have been possible without the hard work of the content development and instruction teams at the Software Guild and mthree.

With the proliferation of data in the past decade, Python emerged as a viable language for data processing and analysis. Its simple syntax and powerful toolbox and libraries make Python the standard language for data.

There are many reasons why learning Python is great choice:

• As a generalpurpose language, Python runs on all platforms and operating systems, which makes Python programs and applications very portable.
• Python is widely used around the globe and benefits from a huge online community that is highly active. Python is number 3 at the time of this writing in the Tiobe index.
• Python is the standard language for data analysis, data engineering, and data science. If you want to become a data developer, learning Python is a must as it provides many builtin and external libraries that allow you to develop machine learning models or ETL processes, or analyze some data.

NOTE You can find the Tiobe index for Python at https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/.

This book contains a fullfledged Python course that is used by the mthree Global Academy and the Software Guild to train our alumni in Python and other topics, such as data analysis and data science.

Job Ready Python provides an overview of the Python language and teaches how to leverage the basics of Python to create Python programs that can process and analyze data.