- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Introduction
- Book 1: Getting Started
- Chapter 1: Starting with Python
- Why Python Is Hot
- Choosing the Right Python
- Tools for Success
- Writing Python in VS Code
- Using Jupyter Notebook for Coding
- Chapter 2: Interactive Mode, Getting Help, and Writing Apps
- Using Python's Interactive Mode
- Creating a Python Development Workspace
- Creating a Folder for Your Python Code
- Typing, Editing, and Debugging Python Code
- Writing Code in a Jupyter Notebook
- Chapter 3: Python Elements and Syntax
- The Zen of Python
- Introducing Object-Oriented Programming
- Discovering Why Indentations Count, Big Time
- Using Python Modules
- Chapter 4: Building Your First Python Application
- Opening the Python App File
- Typing and Using Python Comments
- Understanding Python Data Types
- Working with Python Operators
- Creating and Using Variables
- Understanding What Syntax Is and Why It Matters
- Putting Code Together
- Book 2: Understanding Python Building Blocks
- Chapter 1: Working with Numbers, Text, and Dates
- Calculating Numbers with Functions
- Still More Math Functions
- Formatting Numbers
- Grappling with Weirder Numbers
- Manipulating Strings
- Uncovering Dates and Times
- Accounting for Time Zones
- Working with Time Zones
- Chapter 2: Controlling the Action
- Main Operators for Controlling the Action
- Making Decisions with if
- Repeating a Process with for
- Looping with while
- Chapter 3: Speeding Along with Lists and Tuples
- Defining and Using Lists
- What's a Tuple and Who Cares?
- Working with Sets
- Chapter 4: Cruising Massive Data with Dictionaries
- Understanding Data Dictionaries
- Creating a Data Dictionary
- Looping through a Dictionary
- Data Dictionary Methods
- Copying a Dictionary
- Deleting Dictionary Items
- Having Fun with Multi-Key Dictionaries
- Chapter 5: Wrangling Bigger Chunks of Code
- Creating a Function
- Commenting a Function
- Passing Information to a Function
- Returning Values from Functions
- Unmasking Anonymous Functions
- Chapter 6: Doing Python with Class
- Mastering Classes and Objects
- Creating a Class
- Creating an Instance from a Class
- Giving an Object Its Attributes
- Giving a Class Methods
- Understanding Class Inheritance
- Chapter 7: Sidestepping Errors
- Understanding Exceptions
- Handling Errors Gracefully
- Being Specific about Exceptions
- Keeping Your App from Crashing
- Adding an else to the Mix
- Using try … except … else … finally
- Raising Your Own Exceptions
- Book 3: Working with Libraries
- Chapter 1: Working with External Files
- Understanding Text and Binary Files
- Opening and Closing Files
- Reading a File’s Contents
- Looping through a File
- Reading and Copying a Binary File
- Conquering CSV Files
- Converting from CSV to Objects and Dictionaries
- Chapter 2: Juggling JSON Data
- Organizing JSON Data
- Understanding Serialization
- Loading Data from JSON Files
- Dumping Python Data to JSON
- Chapter 3: Interacting with the Internet
- Seeing How the Web Works
- Chapter 4: Libraries, Packages, and Modules
- Understanding the Python Standard Library
- Exploring Python Packages
- Importing Python Modules
- Making Your Own Modules
- Book 4: Using Artificial Intelligence
- Chapter 1: Exploring Artificial Intelligence
- AI Is a Collection of Techniques
- Current Limitations of AI
- Chapter 2: Building a Neural Network
- Understanding Neural Networks
- Building a Simple Neural Network in Python
- Building a Python Neural Network in TensorFlow
- Chapter 3: Doing Machine Learning
- Learning by Looking for Solutions in All the Wrong Places
- Creating a Machine-Learning Network for Detecting Clothes Types
- Visualizing with MatPlotLib
- Learning More Machine Learning
- Chapter 4: Exploring AI
- Limitations of the Raspberry Pi and AI
- Adding Hardware AI to the Raspberry Pi
- AI in the Cloud
- AI on a Graphics Card
- Where to Go for More AI Fun in Python
- Book 5: Doing Data Science
- Chapter 2: Exploring Big Data
- Introducing NumPy, Pandas, and MatPlotLib
- Doing Your First Data Science Project
- Chapter 3: Using Big Data from Google Cloud
- What Is Big Data?
- Understanding Google Cloud and BigQuery
- Reading the Medicare Big Data
- Looking for the Most Polluted City in the World on an Hourly Basis
- Book 6: Talking to Hardware
- Chapter 1: Introducing Physical Computing
- Physical Computing Is Fun
- What Is a Raspberry Pi?
- Building Projects That Move and Sense the Environment
- Sensing the Environment with the Raspberry Pi
- Controlling an LED with Python
- But Wait, There's More
- Chapter 2: No Soldering! Using Grove Connectors for Building
- Working with the Grove System
- Grove Connectors
- Connecting with Grove Cables
- Chapter 3: Sensing the World
- Understanding I2C
- Measuring Oxygen and a Flame
- Building a Dashboard on Your Phone with Blynk
- Where to Go from Here
- Chapter 4: Making Things Move
- Exploring Electric Motors
- Controlling a DC Motor
- Running a Servo Motor
- Making a Stepper Motor Step
- Book 7: Building Robots
- Chapter 1: Introducing Robotics
- A Robot Is Not Always Like a Human
- Not Every Robot Has Arms or Wheels
- Understanding the Main Parts of a Robot
- Programming Robots
- Chapter 2: Building Your First Python Robot
- Introducing the Mars Rover PiCar-B
- Assembling the Robot
- Testing Your Robot
- Chapter 3: Programming Your Robot Rover
- Building a Simple, High-Level Python Interface
- Making a Single Move with Python
- Functions of the RobotInterface Class
- The Python Robot Interface Test
- Coordinating Motor Movements with Sensors
- Making a Python Brain for Our Robot
- Overview of the Included Adeept Software
- Where to Go from Here
- Chapter 4: Using Artificial Intelligence in Robotics
- This Chapter’s Projects: Going to the Dogs
- Setting Up the First Project
- Machine Learning Using TensorFlow
- Testing the Trained Network
- Taking Cats and Dogs to Our Robot
- Setting Up the Second Project
- The FindAndChaseTheBall.py Python Program
- The Main Program
- AI and the Future of Robotics
- Index
- About the Authors
- Connect with Dummies
- End User License Agreement
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