Dr. Greg Wilson is a programmer, author, and educator based in Toronto. He co-founded and was the first Executive Director of Software Carpentry, which has taught basic software skills to tens of thousands of researchers worldwide, and has authored or edited over a dozen books (including two for children). Greg is a member of the Python Software Foundation and a recipient of ACM SIGSOFT's Influential Educator of the Year award.

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• 1 Introduction2 Objects and Classes3 Finding Duplicate Files 4 Matching Patterns 5 Parsing Text 6 Running Tests7 An Interpreter8 Functions and Closures9 Protocols10 A File Archiver11 An HTML Validator12 A Template Expander13 A Code Linter14 Page Layout15 Performance Profiling16 Object Persistence17 Binary Data18 A Database19 A Build Manager20 A Package Manager21 Transferring Files22 Serving Web Pages23 A File Viewer24 Undo and Redo 25 A Virtual Machine 26 A Debugger 27 Conclusion A Bibliography B Bonus Material C SyllabusD LicenseE Code of ConductF ContributingG GlossaryH CreditsIndex

Dr. Greg Wilson is a programmer, author, and educator based in Toronto. He co-founded and was the first Executive Director of Software Carpentry, which has taught basic software skills to tens of thousands of researchers worldwide, and has authored or edited over a dozen books (including two for children). Greg is a member of the Python Software Foundation and a recipient of ACM SIGSOFT's Influential Educator of the Year award.

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• 1 Introduction2 Objects and Classes3 Finding Duplicate Files 4 Matching Patterns 5 Parsing Text 6 Running Tests7 An Interpreter8 Functions and Closures9 Protocols10 A File Archiver11 An HTML Validator12 A Template Expander13 A Code Linter14 Page Layout15 Performance Profiling16 Object Persistence17 Binary Data18 A Database19 A Build Manager20 A Package Manager21 Transferring Files22 Serving Web Pages23 A File Viewer24 Undo and Redo 25 A Virtual Machine 26 A Debugger 27 Conclusion A Bibliography B Bonus Material C SyllabusD LicenseE Code of ConductF ContributingG GlossaryH CreditsIndex

Dr. Greg Wilson is a programmer, author, and educator based in Toronto. He co-founded and was the first Executive Director of Software Carpentry, which has taught basic software skills to tens of thousands of researchers worldwide, and has authored or edited over a dozen books (including two for children). Greg is a member of the Python Software Foundation and a recipient of ACM SIGSOFT's Influential Educator of the Year award.

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• 1 Introduction2 Objects and Classes3 Finding Duplicate Files 4 Matching Patterns 5 Parsing Text 6 Running Tests7 An Interpreter8 Functions and Closures9 Protocols10 A File Archiver11 An HTML Validator12 A Template Expander13 A Code Linter14 Page Layout15 Performance Profiling16 Object Persistence17 Binary Data18 A Database19 A Build Manager20 A Package Manager21 Transferring Files22 Serving Web Pages23 A File Viewer24 Undo and Redo 25 A Virtual Machine 26 A Debugger 27 Conclusion A Bibliography B Bonus Material C SyllabusD LicenseE Code of ConductF ContributingG GlossaryH CreditsIndex