8 books like Fluent Python

What to read after Fluent Python — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

Scala Cookbook Alvin Alexander · 2013 · ★ 4.0 · 700p · ≈ 23h · Moderate Save time and trouble building object-oriented, functional, and concurrent applications with Scala. The latest edition of this comprehensive cookbook is packed with more than 250 ready-to-use recipes and 1,000 code examples to help you solve the most common problems when working with Scala 3 and its popular libraries.Scala changes the way you think about programming--and that's a good thing.… Shares: Computer programming, Programming Languages

Head First Python Paul Barry · 2010 · ★ 4.2 · 559p · ≈ 18h · Moderate Ben shu nei rong bao kuo chu shi Python, Gong xiang ni de dai ma, Wen jian yu yi chang, Chi jiu cun chu, Tui dao shu ju, Ding zhi shu ju dui xiang deng 11 zhang. Shares: Python, Programming Languages, Computers

The Book of R Tilman M. Davies · 2016 · 832p · ≈ 27h · Moderate The Book of R is a comprehensive, beginner-friendly guide to R, the world’s most popular programming language for statistical analysis. Even if you have no programming experience and little more than a grounding in the basics of mathematics, you’ll find everything you need to begin using R effectively for statistical analysis.You’ll start with the basics, like how to handle data and write simple… Shares: Computer programming, Programming Languages

Think Like a Programmer V. Anton Spraul · 2012 · ★ 4.3 · 256p · ≈ 8h · Moderate "The real challenge of programming isn't learning a language's syntax--it's learning to creatively solve problems so you can build something great. In this one-of-a-kind text, author V. Anton Spraul breaks down the ways that programmers solve problems and teaches you what other introductory books often ignore: how to Think Like a Programmer. Each chapter tackles a single programming concept, like… Shares: Computer programming, Programming Languages, Computers

Programming Bjarne Stroustrup · 1986 · ★ 4.1 · 686p · ≈ 22h · Moderate The C++ Programming tome, written by the father of C++ himself, Bjarne Stroustrup. The premier book on the subject of C++ Programming. Shares: Computer programming, Programming Languages

Python for Finance Yves Hilpisch · 2014 · 606p · ≈ 20h · Moderate The financial industry has recently adopted Python at a tremendous rate, with some of the largest investment banks and hedge funds using it to build core trading and risk management systems. Updated for Python 3, the second edition of this hands-on book helps you get started with the language, guiding developers and quantitative analysts through Python libraries and tools for building financial… Shares: Python, Programming Languages

Code Charles Petzold · 1999 · ★ 4.4 · 393p · ≈ 13h · Moderate What do flashlights, the British invasion, black cats, and seesaws have to do with computers? In CODE, they show us the ingenious ways we manipulate language and invent new means of communicating with each other. And through CODE, we see how this ingenuity and our very human compulsion to communicate have driven the technological innovations of the past two centuries. Using everyday objects and… Shares: Computer programming, Computers

Effective Modern C++ Scott Meyers · 2014 · ★ 4.4 · 334p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Coming to grips with C++11 and C++14 is more than a matter of familiarizing yourself with the features they introduce (e.g., auto type declarations, move semantics, lambda expressions, and concurrency support). The challenge is learning to use those features effectively—so that your software is correct, efficient, maintainable, and portable. That’s where this practical book comes in. It describes… Shares: Programming Languages, Computers

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