Programowanie
Niezależnie czy dopiero rozpoczynacie swoją przygodę z programowaniem, czy jesteście już uznanymi na rynku profesjonalistami, to w kategorii Programowanie na pewno znajdziecie podręczniki, które pomogą Wam w przebiegu pracy, czy też w nauce podstaw programowania.
W książkach z tego działu zawarta jest wiedza zarówno związana z czysto technicznymi sprawami typu składnia języków, ale także z umiejętnościami bardziej "miękkimi" jak obsługa i wykorzystanie pełnych możliwości środowisk programistycznych, czy też projektowanie oprogramowania lub metody numeryczne czy oraz struktury danych.
Python dla zupełnie początkujących. Owoce programowania. Wydanie IV
Tony Gaddis
Python jest wszechstronnym językiem programowania o imponującej elastyczności i wydajności. Można dzięki niemu rozwiązywać przeróżne problemy programistyczne z różnych dziedzin wiedzy. Nawet jeśli nie masz zamiaru stać się pełnoetatowym programistą, prędko się zorientujesz, jak świetnym i elastycznym narzędziem jest Python. Można za jego pomocą budować oprogramowanie, ale również wspierać pracę statystyków, ekonomistów, maklerów giełdowych, biologów, fizyków czy analityków finansowych. Wystarczy tylko znaleźć sposób analizy problemu i nauczyć się implementować go w programie. Z tej książki skorzystasz, nawet gdy nie masz żadnego doświadczenia w projektowaniu i tworzeniu oprogramowania. Dzięki prostym przykładom i zrozumiałemu pseudokodowi, schematom blokowym oraz innym narzędziom zdobędziesz wiedzę o projektowaniu oprogramowania i jego implementowania w języku Python. W każdym rozdziale znalazło się wiele przykładowych projektów oraz zwięzłych i praktycznych programów. Książkę rozpoczęto od przedstawienia podstawowych informacji o przechowywaniu danych, danych wejściowych i wyjściowych, struktur kontrolnych, funkcji, sekwencji, list, operacji wejścia-wyjścia oraz obiektów tworzonych za pomocą klas zdefiniowanych w bibliotece standardowej. Następnie omówiono zagadnienia tworzenia klas, dziedziczenia i polimorfizmu, a także definiowania funkcji rekurencyjnych. W tej książce: Wprowadzenie do Pythona i środowiska IDLE Struktury warunkowe, struktury cykliczne i funkcje Podstawy programowania zorientowanego projektowo Rekurencja i algorytmy rekurencyjne Projektowanie GUI aplikacji Python. Lepszy niż myślisz. Przydatniejszy niż sądzisz.
Python. Dobre praktyki profesjonalistów
Dane Hillard
Python wydaje się językiem idealnym: ma intuicyjną składnię, jest przyjemny w używaniu, umożliwia tworzenie wydajnego, elastycznego kodu. Przy tym jest wyjątkowo wszechstronny, a stosowanie go w przeróżnych celach ułatwiają liczne biblioteki tworzone przez pasjonatów. To jednak nie zmienia faktu, że aby stać się profesjonalnym programistą Pythona, trzeba nauczyć się tworzyć kod godny profesjonalisty: działający bez błędów, czysty, czytelny i łatwy w utrzymaniu. W tym celu trzeba korzystać z branżowych standardów, które określają styl kodowania, projektowania aplikacji i prowadzenie całego procesu programowania. Należy wiedzieć, kiedy i w jaki sposób modularyzować kod, jak poprawić jakość przez zmniejszenie złożoności i stosować kilka innych, koniecznych praktyk. Ta książka okaże się szczególnie cenna dla każdego, kto zamierza profesjonalnie tworzyć kod w Pythonie. Stanowi jasny i zrozumiały zbiór zasad wytwarzania oprogramowania o najwyższej jakości, praktyk stosowanych przez zawodowych wyjadaczy projektowania i kodowania. Poza teoretycznym omówieniem poszczególnych zagadnień znalazło się tu mnóstwo przykładów i przydatnych ćwiczeń, utrwalających prezentowany materiał. Nie zabrakło krótkiego wprowadzenia do Pythona, przedstawiono też sporo informacji o strukturach danych i różnych podejściach w kontekście osiągania dobrej wydajności kodu. Pokazano, w jaki sposób zapobiegać nadmiernemu przyrostowi kodu podczas rozwijania aplikacji i jak redukować niepożądane powiązania w aplikacji. Dodatkową wartością publikacji jest bogactwo informacji o ogólnej architekturze oprogramowania, przydatnych każdemu zawodowemu programiście. W książce między innymi: podstawy projektowania w Pythonie wysokopoziomowe koncepcje rozwoju oprogramowania abstrakcje i hermetyzacja kodu różne metody testowania kodu tworzenie dużych systemów a rozszerzalność i elastyczność aplikacji Pythona praktykuj profesjonalnie!
Python Essentials for AWS Cloud Developers. Run and deploy cloud-based Python applications using AWS
Serkan Sakinmaz
AWS provides a vast variety of services for implementing Python applications, which can pose a challenge for those without an AWS background. This book addresses one of the more predominant problems of choosing the right service and stepping into the implementation of exciting Python apps using AWS.The book begins by showing you how to install Python and create an AWS account, before helping you explore AWS Lambda, EC2, Elastic Beanstalk, and S3 for Python programming. You'll then gain hands-on experience in using these services to build the Python application. As you advance, you'll discover how to debug Python apps using PyCharm, and then start deploying the Python applications on Elastic Beanstalk. You’ll also learn how to monitor Python applications using the CloudWatch service, along with creating and publishing APIs on AWS to access the Python application. The concluding chapters will help you get to grips with storing unstructured and semi-structured data using NoSQL and DynamoDB, as well as advance your knowledge using the Glue serverless data integration service in AWS.By the end of this Python book, you’ll be able to take your application development skills up a notch with AWS services and advance in your career.
Steven F. Lott
This book is designed for Python 2 developers who want to get to grips with Python 3 in a short period of time. It covers the key features of Python, assuming you are familiar with the fundamentals of Python 2.
Fahad Ali Sarwar
Penetration testing enables you to evaluate the security or strength of a computer system, network, or web application that an attacker can exploit. With this book, you'll understand why Python is one of the fastest-growing programming languages for penetration testing. You'll find out how to harness the power of Python and pentesting to enhance your system security.Developers working with Python will be able to put their knowledge and experience to work with this practical guide. Complete with step-by-step explanations of essential concepts and practical examples, this book takes a hands-on approach to help you build your own pentesting tools for testing the security level of systems and networks. You'll learn how to develop your own ethical hacking tools using Python and explore hacking techniques to exploit vulnerabilities in networks and systems. Finally, you'll be able to get remote access to target systems and networks using the tools you develop and modify as per your own requirements.By the end of this ethical hacking book, you'll have developed the skills needed for building cybersecurity tools and learned how to secure your systems by thinking like a hacker.
Soledad Galli, Christoph Molnar
Streamline data preprocessing and feature engineering in your machine learning project with this third edition of the Python Feature Engineering Cookbook to make your data preparation more efficient.This guide addresses common challenges, such as imputing missing values and encoding categorical variables using practical solutions and open source Python libraries. You’ll learn advanced techniques for transforming numerical variables, discretizing variables, and dealing with outliers. Each chapter offers step-by-step instructions and real-world examples, helping you understand when and how to apply various transformations for well-prepared data.The book explores feature extraction from complex data types such as dates, times, and text. You’ll see how to create new features through mathematical operations and decision trees and use advanced tools like Featuretools and tsfresh to extract features from relational data and time series.By the end, you’ll be ready to build reproducible feature engineering pipelines that can be easily deployed into production, optimizing data preprocessing workflows and enhancing machine learning model performance.
Soledad Galli
Feature engineering is invaluable for developing and enriching your machine learning models. In this cookbook, you will work with the best tools to streamline your feature engineering pipelines and techniques and simplify and improve the quality of your code.Using Python libraries such as pandas, scikit-learn, Featuretools, and Feature-engine, you’ll learn how to work with both continuous and discrete datasets and be able to transform features from unstructured datasets. You will develop the skills necessary to select the best features as well as the most suitable extraction techniques. This book will cover Python recipes that will help you automate feature engineering to simplify complex processes. You’ll also get to grips with different feature engineering strategies, such as the box-cox transform, power transform, and log transform across machine learning, reinforcement learning, and natural language processing (NLP) domains.By the end of this book, you’ll have discovered tips and practical solutions to all of your feature engineering problems.
Oliver Theobald
This book provides a thorough introduction to Python, starting with basic operations like arithmetic and variable creation. As you progress, you'll delve into more complex topics such as loops, conditionals, functions, and object-oriented programming. By the end, you'll be able to write Python code and use libraries like Pandas to manipulate data efficiently. Practical challenges and exercises help solidify your learning. It’s designed to be engaging and easy to follow, making the Python learning experience as enjoyable as it is informative. As you build your skills, you will also gain hands-on experience by tackling coding exercises that reinforce each concept. Whether you're new to programming or looking to sharpen your Python skills, this book will guide you through every essential aspect of the language, preparing you for real-world applications.
Jason Strimpel
Discover how Python has made algorithmic trading accessible to non-professionals with unparalleled expertise and practical insights from Jason Strimpel, founder of PyQuant News and a seasoned professional with global experience in trading and risk management. This book guides you through from the basics of quantitative finance and data acquisition to advanced stages of backtesting and live trading.Detailed recipes will help you leverage the cutting-edge OpenBB SDK to gather freely available data for stocks, options, and futures, and build your own research environment using lightning-fast storage techniques like SQLite, HDF5, and ArcticDB. This book shows you how to use SciPy and statsmodels to identify alpha factors and hedge risk, and construct momentum and mean-reversion factors. You’ll optimize strategy parameters with walk-forward optimization using VectorBT and construct a production-ready backtest using Zipline Reloaded. Implementing all that you’ve learned, you’ll set up and deploy your algorithmic trading strategies in a live trading environment using the Interactive Brokers API, allowing you to stream tick-level data, submit orders, and retrieve portfolio details.By the end of this algorithmic trading book, you'll not only have grasped the essential concepts but also the practical skills needed to implement and execute sophisticated trading strategies using Python.
Jason Strimpel
Get Python code for algorithmic trading along with practical guidance from Jason Strimpel, founder of PyQuant News and a veteran of global trading and risk management. This highly practical book takes you from core algorithmic trading concepts and modern data acquisition to rigorous backtesting and strategy execution.Detailed recipes show you how to use the OpenBB Platform to source free equities, options, and futures data. Using that data, accelerate research with Parquet, Polars, DuckDB, and ArcticDB. You’ll engineer alpha factors with SciPy and statsmodels, using PCA to find latent factors, regression to hedge beta, and measure Fama-French exposures. Then optimize backtests with walk-forward analysis using VectorBT and build production-grade backtests with Zipline Reloaded. You’ll evaluate alpha with pro tools like Alphalens Reloaded and PyFolio and apply agentic AI workflows to automate research and code generation.For execution, you’ll connect to Interactive Brokers’ API to stream ticks, place and manage orders, retrieve portfolio state, and deploy strategies with monitoring and risk KPIs suitable for live trading. By the end of this book, you’ll not only understand the essentials, but you’ll also have the code templates and patterns to implement, evaluate, and operate Python-based algorithmic trading strategies.
Silas Toms, William Parker
Integrating Python into your day-to-day ArcGIS work is highly recommended when dealing with large amounts of geospatial data. Python for ArcGIS Pro aims to help you get your work done faster, with greater repeatability and higher confidence in your results.Starting from programming basics and building in complexity, two experienced ArcGIS professionals-turned-Python programmers teach you how to incorporate scripting at each step: automating the production of maps for print, managing data between ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Online, creating custom script tools for sharing, and then running data analysis and visualization on top of the ArcGIS geospatial library, all using Python.You’ll use ArcGIS Pro Notebooks to explore and analyze geospatial data, and write data engineering scripts to manage ongoing data processing and data transfers. This exercise-based book also includes three rich real-world case studies, giving you an opportunity to apply and extend the concepts you studied earlier.Irrespective of your expertise level with Esri software or the Python language, you’ll benefit from this book’s hands-on approach, which takes you through the major uses of Python for ArcGIS Pro to boost your ArcGIS productivity.
Eryk Lewinson
Python is one of the most popular programming languages used in the financial industry, with a huge set of accompanying libraries. In this book, you'll cover different ways of downloading financial data and preparing it for modeling. You'll calculate popular indicators used in technical analysis, such as Bollinger Bands, MACD, RSI, and backtest automatic trading strategies. Next, you'll cover time series analysis and models, such as exponential smoothing, ARIMA, and GARCH (including multivariate specifications), before exploring the popular CAPM and the Fama-French three-factor model. You'll then discover how to optimize asset allocation and use Monte Carlo simulations for tasks such as calculating the price of American options and estimating the Value at Risk (VaR). In later chapters, you'll work through an entire data science project in the financial domain. You'll also learn how to solve the credit card fraud and default problems using advanced classifiers such as random forest, XGBoost, LightGBM, and stacked models. You'll then be able to tune the hyperparameters of the models and handle class imbalance. Finally, you'll focus on learning how to use deep learning (PyTorch) for approaching financial tasks.By the end of this book, you’ll have learned how to effectively analyze financial data using a recipe-based approach.
Eryk Lewinson
Python is one of the most popular programming languages in the financial industry, with a huge collection of accompanying libraries. In this new edition of the Python for Finance Cookbook, you will explore classical quantitative finance approaches to data modeling, such as GARCH, CAPM, factor models, as well as modern machine learning and deep learning solutions.You will use popular Python libraries that, in a few lines of code, provide the means to quickly process, analyze, and draw conclusions from financial data. In this new edition, more emphasis was put on exploratory data analysis to help you visualize and better understand financial data. While doing so, you will also learn how to use Streamlit to create elegant, interactive web applications to present the results of technical analyses.Using the recipes in this book, you will become proficient in financial data analysis, be it for personal or professional projects. You will also understand which potential issues to expect with such analyses and, more importantly, how to overcome them.
Yuxing Yan
A hands-on guide with easy-to-follow examples to help you learn about option theory, quantitative finance, financial modeling, and time series using Python. Python for Finance is perfect for graduate students, practitioners, and application developers who wish to learn how to utilize Python to handle their financial needs. Basic knowledge of Python will be helpful but knowledge of programming is necessary.
Muhammad Asif
Python is a multipurpose language that can be used for multiple use cases. Python for Geeks will teach you how to advance in your career with the help of expert tips and tricks.You'll start by exploring the different ways of using Python optimally, both from the design and implementation point of view. Next, you'll understand the life cycle of a large-scale Python project. As you advance, you'll focus on different ways of creating an elegant design by modularizing a Python project and learn best practices and design patterns for using Python. You'll also discover how to scale out Python beyond a single thread and how to implement multiprocessing and multithreading in Python. In addition to this, you'll understand how you can not only use Python to deploy on a single machine but also use clusters in private as well as in public cloud computing environments. You'll then explore data processing techniques, focus on reusable, scalable data pipelines, and learn how to use these advanced techniques for network automation, serverless functions, and machine learning. Finally, you'll focus on strategizing web development design using the techniques and best practices covered in the book.By the end of this Python book, you'll be able to do some serious Python programming for large-scale complex projects.
Massimiliano Pippi
If you are a Python developer, whether you have experience in web applications development or not, and want to rapidly deploy a scalable backend service or a modern web application on Google App Engine, then this book is for you.