Python by Design: Ready, Set, Code

From managing requirements, to learning how to choose between the best projects, a successful software developer needs to know a lot more than merely how to ‘write code.’ Tenured software professionals know that designing, testing, and delivering software for ourselves and others is what real-world, modern software development is all about.

Because modern software developers need to understand how to create software from requirements & design specifications, when Pythoneers started asking me for more practice exercises, I thought that I would define those projects using the type of documentation professional software developers are most likely to encounter.

From creating a simple “Hex Dumper” and / or “Big Banner” tool, to creating and reporting on dictionaries loaded with data, the exercises in this book are designed to provide a gentle, evolutionary, real-world educational experience. Students will be exploring everything from using Python’s built-in functions, to practicing common research, maintenance, as well as software re-factoring activities.

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