Learn More Python 3 The Hard Way

Part I: Initial Knowledge

Part I: Initial Knowledge The very first thing you need to learn is everything. I know that's intimidating, but as I mentioned in the introduction, you are going to only practice three skills for the ...

Exercise 0: The Setup

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Exercise 0: The Setup You are going to need to set up and configure some tools to do this book. Chances are that you may already have many of these, but let's just make sure. A Programmer's Editor You...

Exercise 1: On Process

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Exercise 1: On Process There's two type of processes in the world of software development. First you have the Team Process, which is things like Scrum, Agile, and eXtreme Programming. These processes ...

Exercise 2: On Creativity

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Exercise 2: On Creativity Creativity is nothing special. If you're a person of average or more intelligence then you are creative. Being able to have thoughts and ideas which you then turn into realit...

Exercise 3: On Quality

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Exercise 3: On Quality I'm going to propose a scientific theory about cognition I cannot prove: This is from an observation in nearly every creative thing I've ever done that goes something like this:...

Part II: Quick Hacks

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Part II: Quick Hacks You've got the best idea ever. You're going to impress the world! You'll be a billionaire! Your brain is enflamed with the concept and you see it in your dreams haunting you like ...

Exercise 4: Dealing with Command Line Arguments

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Exercise 4: Dealing with Command Line Arguments Before you can work on this first part of the book you need to do some quick hacking that teaches you about command line arguments in Python. Traditiona...

Exercise 5: cat

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Exercise 5: cat With Exercise 4 you began the work of finding out what blocks you. It was a simple challenge of conducting a spike researching how best to get command line arguments from a user. The r...

Exercise 21: Binary Search

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Exercise 21: Binary Search The Binary Search algorithm is a simple way to find an item in an already sorted list of items. It's easily described as taking a sorted list and continually partitioning it...

Exercise 22: Suffix Arrays

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Exercise 22: Suffix Arrays I'd like to tell you a story about suffix arrays. I was interviewing at a company in Seattle during a time I was curious about how to most efficiently create a diff on an ex...

Exercise 23: Ternary Search Trees

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Exercise 23: Ternary Search Trees The final data structure we'll investigate is called a Ternary Search Tree ( TSTree ), and it's useful for quickly finding a string in a set of strings. It's similar ...

Exercise 24: Fast URL Search

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Exercise 24: Fast URL Search We will end the section on data structures and algorithms with a performance measurement challenge that applies your data structures to an actual problem. I've written a f...