Lee VaughanReal-World Python
A Hacker's Guide to Solving Problems with Code
Lee Vaughan is a programmer, pop culture enthusiast, educator, and author of Impractical Python Projects (No Starch Press). As a former executive-level scientist at ExxonMobil, he spent decades constructing and reviewing complex computer models, developed and tested software, and trained geoscientists and engineers.
Introduction
Chapter 1: Saving Shipwrecked Sailors with Bayes' Rule
Chapter 2: Attributing Authorship with Stylometry
Chapter 3: Summarizing Speeches
Chapter 4: Sending Super Secret Messages
Chapter 5: Finding Pluto
Chapter 6: Winning the Moon Race with Apollo 8
Chapter 7: Selecting Martian Landing Sites
Chapter 8: Detecting Distant Exoplanets
Chapter 9: Identifying Friend or Foe
Chapter 10: Finding a Safe Space
Chapter 11: Charting Exoplanets
Chapter 12: Are we Living in an Alien Simulation?
Appendix: Answers to the practice problems
Index
