Table of Contents

• PART 1
• CS: Python Fundamentals Quickstart
• CS 1. Introduction to Computers and Python
• DS Intro: AI - at the Intersection of CS and DS
• CS 2. Introduction to Python Programming
• DS Intro: Basic Descriptive Stats
• CS 3. Control Statements and Program Development
• DS Intro: Measures of Central Tendency - Mean, Median, Mode
• CS 4. Functions
• DS Intro: Basic Statistics - Measures of Dispersion
• CS 5. Lists and Tuples
• DS Intro: Simulation and Static Visualization
• PART 2
• CS: Python Data Structures, Strings and Files
• CS 6. Dictionaries and Sets
• DS Intro: Simulation and Dynamic Visualization
• CS 7. Array-Oriented Programming with NumPy, High-Performance NumPy Arrays
• DS Intro: Pandas Series and DataFrames
• CS 8. Strings: A Deeper Look Includes Regular Expressions
• DS Intro: Pandas, Regular Expressions and Data Wrangling
• CS 9. Files and Exceptions
• DS Intro: Loading Datasets from CSV Files into PandasDataFrames
• PART 3
• CS: Python High-End Topics
• CS 10. Object-Oriented Programming
• DS Intro: Time Series and Simple Linear Regression
• DS Intro: Time Series and Simple Linear Regression
• CS and DS Other Topics Blog
• PART 4
• AI, Big Data and Cloud Case Studies
• DS 12. Natural Language Processing (NLP), Web Scraping in the Exercises
• DS 13. Data Mining Twitter: Sentiment Analysis, JSON and Web Services
• DS 14. IBM Watson and Cognitive Computing
• DS 15. Machine Learning: Classification, Regression and Clustering
• DS 16. Deep Learning Convolutional and Recurrent Neural Networks; Reinforcement Learning in the Exercises
• DS 17. Big Data: Hadoop, Spark, NoSQL and IoT

About the Author

Paul J. Deitel, CEO and Chief Technical Officer of Deitel & Associates, Inc., is an MIT graduate with 38 years of computing and corporate training experience and is an Oracle Java Champion and a Microsoft C# MVP (2012-2014). He is a best-selling programming-language textbook/professional book/video/e-learning author. Paul is one of the world's most experienced programming-languages trainers. Through Deitel & Associates, Inc., he has delivered hundreds of programming courses worldwide to clients, including Cisco, IBM, Siemens, Sun Microsystems (now Oracle), Dell, Fidelity, NASA at the Kennedy Space Center, the National Severe Storm Laboratory, White Sands Missile Range, Rogue Wave Software, Boeing, SunGard Higher Education, Nortel Networks, Puma, iRobot, Invensys and many more. 

Dr. Harvey M. Deitel, Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer of Deitel & Associates, Inc., has over 55 years of experience in computing. Dr. Deitel earned B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from MIT and a Ph.D. in Mathematics from Boston University - he studied computing in each of these programs just before they spun off Computer Science programs. He has extensive college teaching experience, including earning tenure and serving as the Chairman of the Computer Science Department at Boston College before founding Deitel & Associates, Inc., in 1991 with his son, Paul. The Deitels' publications have earned international recognition, with more than 100 translations published. Dr. Deitel has delivered hundreds of programming courses to academic, corporate, government and military clients.