PART I

The Beginning

This part of the book gets things started by taking us on a quick tour that reviews Python

fundamental prerequisites and introduces some of the most common ways it is applied.

Chapter 1

This chapter kicks things off by using a simple example—recording information

about people—to briefly introduce some of the major Python application domains

we’ll be studying in this book. We’ll migrate the same example through multiple

steps. Along the way, we’ll meet databases, GUIs, websites, and more. This is

something of a demo chapter, designed to pique your interest. We won’t learn the

full story here, but we’ll have a chance to see Python in action before digging into

the details. This chapter also serves as a review of some core language ideas you

should be familiar with before starting this book, such as data representation and

object-oriented programming (OOP).

The point of this part of the book is not to give you an in-depth look at Python, but
just to let you sample its application and to provide you with a quick look at some of
Python’s broader goals and purposes.
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