| Python Playground, 2nd Ed (No Starch Press) |
| Monday, 04 December 2023 | |||
This book shows how to turn code into tangible creations with Python Playground, a collection of 15 inventive projects that will expand your programming horizons, spark your curiosity, and elevate your coding skills. Mahesh Venkitachalam shows how to generate art and music, simulate real-world phenomena, and interact with hardware, all through the use of Python and common libraries such as numpy, matplotlib, and Pillow. This updated second edition has five new projects: draw fractals, bring Conway’s Game of Life into 3D space, and use a Raspberry Pi and Python to create a musical instrument, an IoT garden monitor, and a machine learning–driven speech recognition system. Author: Mahesh Venkitachalam Topics include:
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