This book aims at providing fundamental concepts of Python programming. It is a good text book as well as reference book. Here concepts are presented in the form of programs making it quite easy and simple for students to understand. It showcases actual screen shots of the programs from the programming environment to make it more student friendly. Because of the user friendly interface provided in the book a novice learner can also learn Python programming without any difficulty. As Python is open source, programs written in this book can execute on different operating systems like Windows, Linux, and Mac etc. Topics covered in this book Python Language Basics, Python Collections- Compound Data Types, List, Tuple, Dictionary and Set, Setting up Development Environment, Introduction to Anaconda and Installation of Anaconda. All the concepts are explained with practical examples and screenshots of the same are embedded.
Don’t buy this book to be used for reference material on the use of Spyder as it contains 5 pages or less on that subject. The documentation at the end of the book has very little installation material and concludes with “Hello World”.