You're reading from Advanced Python Programming - Second Edition

Product type Book

Published in Mar 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801814010

Pages 606 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

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Object Oriented Programming

Author (1):

Quan Nguyen

Table of Contents (32) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Python-Native and Specialized Optimization

2. Chapter 1: Benchmarking and Profiling

3. Chapter 2: Pure Python Optimizations

4. Chapter 3: Fast Array Operations with NumPy, Pandas, and Xarray

5. Chapter 4: C Performance with Cython

6. Chapter 5: Exploring Compilers

7. Chapter 6: Automatic Differentiation and Accelerated Linear Algebra for Machine Learning

8. Section 2: Concurrency and Parallelism

9. Chapter 7: Implementing Concurrency

10. Chapter 8: Parallel Processing

11. Chapter 9: Concurrent Web Requests

12. Chapter 10: Concurrent Image Processing

13. Chapter 11: Building Communication Channels with asyncio

14. Chapter 12: Deadlocks

15. Chapter 13: Starvation

16. Chapter 14: Race Conditions

17. Chapter 15: The Global Interpreter Lock

18. Section 3: Design Patterns in Python

19. Chapter 16: The Factory Pattern

20. Chapter 17: The Builder Pattern

21. Chapter 18: Other Creational Patterns

22. Chapter 19: The Adapter Pattern

23. Chapter 20: The Decorator Pattern

24. Chapter 21: The Bridge Pattern

25. Chapter 22: The Façade Pattern

26. Chapter 23: Other Structural Patterns

27. Chapter 24: The Chain of Responsibility Pattern

28. Chapter 25: The Command Pattern

29. Chapter 26: The Observer Pattern

30. Assessments

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