Building Skills Books

October 2019: What’s new? What’s new is the content has been moved to GitHub.

Building Skills in Object-Oriented Design [4.1910 Edition]

Step-By-Step Construction of a Complete Application

How do you move from OO programming to OO design? Do a series of design exercises focused on building an application program that has real-world sophistication.

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Skills accumulate through use and repetition. We take an approach to gradually build skills starting from the basics. We respect the “clue absorption rate” that limits how much new information you can tolerate before feeling overwhelmed.

To make the process easier to understand, we take most of our exercises from the world of casino games. We find that these algorithms are just the right level of complexity to build skills in programming and design. The exercises are fun, easy to understand, and reflect real-world subtleties.

Praise from Readers

Recent Email:

Just wanted to let you know how deeply appreciative I am of your work.

I am new to Python (building a web app using Google AppEngine) and I am really learning quite a bit from your works and words.

Another email had this as well as bug reports; both are appreciated.

I wanted to thank you for your book “Building Skills in Python”.

It’s a tremendous piece of work and a very valuable material for me.

I’ve just started Python for google app and I was still looking for adequate Python resources on the web until I discovered your book.

This about the OO Design Book

I just wanted to let you know that I discovered your book on Object Oriented Programming when I was thinking about writing a craps game the other night. The book is great! Every other book involving casino games doesn’t do the thorough job going through all of the permutations for the games. They all kinda stop without finishing the job.

About the Python book

I really enjoy reading your python programming book “Building Skills in Python”. … I like the “balance” of the book, the way you explain things, the organization of topics etc. … It’s a very comprehensive book…

More Thanks for the Python Book

Just dropping a line to say that it’s quite a neat piece of work: well-written and with useful examples everywhere. Thanks a lot!

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About the Author

Steven F. Lott is a consultant, teacher, author and software developer with over 30 years of experience building software of every kind, from specialized control systems for military hardware to large data warehouses.

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Other Books:

• Mastering Object-Oriented Python 2ed

• Functional Python Programming 2ed

• Python Essentials

• Modern Python Cookbook

• Python for Secret Agents

• Python for Secret Agents II

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