About the Author James W. Cooper holds a PhD in chemistry and worked in academia, for the scientific instrument industry, and for IBM for 25 years, primarily as a computer scientist at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center. Now retired, he is the author of 20 books, including 3 on design patterns in various languages. His most recent books are Flameout: The Rise and Fall of IBM Instruments (2019) and Food Myths Debunked (2014). James holds 11 patents and has written 60 columns for JavaPro Magazine. He has also written nearly 1,000 columns for the now vanished Examiner.com on foods and chemistry, and he currently writes his own blog: FoodScienceInstitute.com. Recently, he has written columns on Python for Medium.com and Substack. He is also involved in local theater groups and is the treasurer for Troupers Light Opera, where he performs regularly. Product Description Learn how to write Python code that's more robust, efficient, maintainable, and elegant―whether you're new to the language or you've been coding for years. Python Programming with Design Patterns combines a clear, modern introduction to modern Python with visual, example-driven explanations of 23 proven patterns for writing outstanding object-oriented code. Through these patterns and examples, best-selling patterns author James W. Cooper introduces modern techniques for creating Python objects that interact effectively to make powerful, flexible programs.Cooper's wide-ranging coverage includes abstract classes, multiple inheritance, GUI programming and widgets, graphical classes, drawing and plotting, math libraries, database programming, Python decorators, images, threads, iterators, creating executable code from Python programs, and much more. He covers the use of six leading Python development environments, and provides complete downloadable code on Github for every example program.Throughout, Cooper's informal, visual presentation makes patterns easier than ever to understand and use―so you can confidently build large, complex programs that benefit from everything Python has to offer.

Python Programming with Design Patterns

Computers & Technology

Cooper, James

Programming

Pearson

TEACHING FOR STUDENT LEARNING: BECOMING A MASTER TEACHER, offers practical tools, skills, and advice that students and in-service teachers can put into immediate use in the field.

Teaching for Student Learning: Becoming a Master Teacher (MindTap Course List)

Business & Money

Education & Reference

Cengage Learning'

Take a close look at the challenges, realities and rewards of teaching today as Ryan/Cooper/Bolick/Callahan's THOSE WHO CAN, TEACH, 15E helps you make an informed decision about entering today's teaching profession. This edition's highly acclaimed author team draws from current research and multiple sources to pose the question "Why Teach?" A reader-friendly presentation takes a candid look at the importance of teaching, using compelling narratives, biographies, profiles and interviews with top educators. Video cases portray real teaching experiences and new discussions address technology in use with 2020 pandemic school shutdowns and critical topics, such as bullying, high-stakes testing and education reform. Engaging content corresponds to the latest professional teaching standards with digital downloads that offer teaching tools. The authors invite you to carefully consider the rewards, positive challenges and inspiring experiences that form today's high-impact teaching career.

Those Who Can, Teach (MindTap Course List)

Callahan, Cory

Bolick, Cheryl Mason

Ryan, Kevin

TEACHING FOR STUDENT LEARNING: BECOMING A MASTER TEACHER, Fourth Edition, offers practical tools, skills and advice that pre-service and in-service teachers can implement immediately. Written by a team of experienced educators and authors, this trusted text promotes ambitious and powerful teaching and high levels of engagement and interaction. Ideal for both current and aspiring educators, this innovative text helps readers achieve their goals by focusing on essential teaching tasks and covering topics such as instruction, assessment and classroom management. The text also aids in teacher preparation by emphasizing get-the-job-done problem-solving skills and focused advice. Modules are presented in an easy-to-read and -reference format, giving readers ready access to the fundamental information and professional insights today's teachers need to succeed. The current edition also features a strong focus on interactivity, with videos embedded directly within the eBook to facilitate multimedia learning.

Teaching for Student Learning: Becoming a Master Teacher

Tauer, Susan

The Essential Architectural Hand-Drawing Guidebook

Arts & Photography

Study & Teaching

Routledge

For companies moving their COBOL applications from older mainframes to AS/400, this book cover the specific tools from COBOL 400 that programmers need to convert and develop their applications.

Programming in Cobol/400

Stern, Nancy B.

Stern, Robert A.

wiley

Cooper/COBOL 400 is designed specifically for the COBOL course run on the AS/400 platform. The text is intended for readers with no previous programming or computer experience as well as for those with some background in the computing field. It has been specifically designed for use in college courses on COBOL, both in two-year and four-year schools.

Programming In COBOL / 400

Programming Languages

Focusing on top-down, modular programming concepts, this Second Edition of the popular text shows readers how to write structured RPG programs for easy code development and maintenance.

RPG II and RPG III Structured Programming

Sager, Alden

This updated textbook edition teaches structured ANS Cobol, with an emphasis on good programming style, standardized program formats and problem definition, data validation, and debugging and error control procedures. It includes chapter outlines, list of objectives, review questions and glossary. The book covers important new features of the 1985 COBOL Standard.

Structured COBOL Programming

Stern, Robert A.M.

Stern, Nancy

Reference

John Wiley&Sons

Book by Cooper, James, Browne, Michael, Peters, Melvyn

European Logistics: Markets, Management and Strategy

Browne,Michael

Peters, Melvyn

Management & Leadership

Blackwell Pub.

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