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Real-World Python: A Hacker’s Guide to Solving Problems with Code
by Lee Vaughan (Author)

Booktalk: Move from playing with syntax to writing complete programs in no time. You’ll conduct experiments, explore statistical concepts, and solve novel problems that have frustrated geniuses throughout history, like detecting distant exoplanets, as you continue to build your Python skills.

Chapters begin with a clearly defined project goal and a discussion of ways to attack the problem, followed by a mission designed to make you think like a programmer. You’ll direct a Coast Guard search-and-rescue effort, plot and execute a NASA flight to the moon, protect access to a secure lab using facial recognition, and more. Along the way you’ll learn how to:

Use libraries like matplotlib, NumPy, Bokeh, pandas, Requests, Beautiful Soup, and turtle
Work with Natural Language Processing and computer vision modules like NLTK and OpenCV
Write a program to detect and track objects moving across a starfield
Scrape speeches from the internet and autosummarize them
Use the Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA) map to select spacecraft landing sites
Survive a zombie apocalypse with the aid of data-plotting and visualization tools

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Girls Garage: How to Use Any Tool, Tackle Any Project, and Build the World You Want to See
by Emily Pilloton (Author) and Kate Bingaman-Burt (Artist)

Booktalk: With a background in architecture and construction, Emily Pilloton started the nonprofit Girls Garage to give girls the tools to build the world they want to see. Since 2013, girls ages 9-18 have come to Girls Garage’s workshop eager to use power tools and build real-world projects for their community. Now you can do it, too — wherever you live.

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