Practices of the Python Pro (Manning) (Audiobook)

2019 | English | B08YPCVMVG | 6 hours and 20 minutes | MP3 54 kbps | 152 MB

Professional developers know the many benefits of writing application code thats clean, well-organized, and easy to maintain. By learning and following established patterns and best practices, you can take your code and your career to a new level.

With Practices of the Python Pro, youll learn to design professional-level, clean, easily maintainable software at scale using the incredibly popular programming language, Python. Youll find easy-to-grok examples that use pseudocode and Python to introduce software development best practices, along with dozens of instantly useful techniques that will help you code like a pro.

About the technology

Professional-quality code does more than just run without bugs. Its clean, readable, and easy to maintain. To step up from a capable Python coder to a professional developer, you need to learn industry standards for coding style, application design, and development process. Thats where this book is indispensable.

About the book

Practices of the Python Pro teaches you to design and write professional-quality software thats understandable, maintainable, and extensible. Dane Hillard is a Python pro who has helped many dozens of developers make this step, and he knows what it takes. With helpful examples and exercises, he teaches you when, why, and how to modularize your code, how to improve quality by reducing complexity, and much more. Embrace these core principles, and your code will become easier for you and others to read, maintain, and reuse.

What’s inside

Organizing large Python projects
Achieving the right levels of abstraction
Writing clean, reusable code Inheritance and composition
Considerations for testing and performance
About the audience

For learners familiar with the basics of Python or another OO language.

About the author

Dane Hillard has spent the majority of his development career using Python to build web applications.