Up and Running with Python

Python—the popular and highly readable object-oriented language—is both powerful and relatively easy to learn. Whether you’re new to programming or an experienced developer, this course can help you get started with Python. Joe Marini provides an overview of the installation process, basic Python syntax, and an example of how to construct and run a simple Python program. Learn to work with dates and times, read and write files, and retrieve and parse HTML, JSON, and XML data from the web.

Topics include:

• Installing Python
• Choosing an editor or IDE
• Working with variables and expressions
• Writing loops
• Using the date, time, and datetime classes
• Reading and writing files
• Fetching internet data
• Parsing and processing HTML

About the Author

Joe Marini is a senior developer advocate at Google and a developer of Dreamweaver and Windows Phone.

Joe has worked in the web and software industries for more than 20 years. He was an original member of the Dreamweaver engineering team at Macromedia, and held prominent early roles in creating products such as QuarkXPress, Microsoft Expression Blend, mFactory’s mTropolis, and Extensis QX-Tools. He is regularly a featured speaker at industry conferences and has authored or co-authored several publications on web and software development. Prior to Google, Joe was responsible for the mobile web developer platform for Windows Phone 7 at Microsoft. His book, The Document Object Model, is widely regarded as the definitive resource for working with the DOM.

Product Details

• Full Video Tutorials
• Video File Format: MP4
• Skill Level: Beginner
• Video Duration: 2h 27m
• Instructor: Joe Marini