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If you are new to programming with Python and are looking for a solid introduction, this is the book for you. Developed by computer science instructors, books in the "for the absolute beginner" series teach the principles of programming through simple game creation. You will acquire the skills that you need for practical Python...

This ILT Series course, rated 5.0/5.0 in overall quality by ProCert Labs, covers the basic functions and features of PowerPoint 2010. After an introduction to PowerPoint's window components and Help system, students will learn to create, save, and rearrange presentations. Then they will format text, use drawing objects, work with...

The era of mechanized warfare is rapidly giving way to the battle for information superiority enabled by electronic technologies that provide data for detailed analysis of enemy forces and capabilities. Supported with over 400 color photographs and illustrations, this new book is written and designed specifically to help non-specialists...

In recent years, Fourier transform methods have emerged as one of the major methodologies for the evaluation of derivative contracts, largely due to the need to strike a balance between the extension of existing pricing models beyond the traditional Black-Scholes setting and a need to evaluate prices consistently with the market...

Today , there aremany services out there providing news feeds, and there are plenty of code libraries that can parse this data. So, with the proliferation of web services and public APIs, why is web scraping still so important to the future of the Web? It is important because of the rise ofmicroformats, Semantic Web technologies, theW3C...

While compilers for high-level programming languages are large complex software systems, they have particular characteristics that differentiate them from other software systems. Their functionality is almost completely well-defined – ideally there exist complete precise descriptions of the source and target languages, while additional...

The three volumes of the Combinatorial Optimization set aim to cover a wide range of topics in this area. These topics also deal with fundamental notions and...

Python is a dynamic programming language, which is completely enterprise ready, owing largely to the variety of support modules that are available to extend its capabilities. In order to build productive and feature-rich Python applications, we need to use MySQL for Python, a module that provides database support to our applications. Although...