Math Adventures With Python

Math Adventures with Python: An Illustrated Guide to Exploring Math with Code by Peter Farrell

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


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This book was well written, enjoyable and quite interesting; however, if you're hoping to acquire skills in Python you may be disappointed. There is very little independent practice for the reader. The author poses a topic, proceeds to implement it in Python and you can follow along but there's a big difference between copying code presented in a book and acquiring the skill to formulate that code. What you will have when you finish is a pretty good library of examples on which to draw going forward and, in my experience, when developing a program, grabbing a piece of code similar to the one underdevelopment is a good starting place. On the other hand, you won't be entirely comfortable with the language until you invest quite a bit more time working on problems of your own.



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