Tools and toys for this book
The main goal of this book is to provide the reader with self-contained projects ready to deploy, and in order to do this, as you go through the book we will use and implement tools such as Python, D3, and MongoDB. These tools will help you to program and deploy the projects. You also can download all the code from the author's GitHub repository:
You can see a detailed installation and setup process of all the tools in Appendix, Setting Up the Infrastructure.
Why Python?
Python is a "scripting language" - an interpreted language with its own built-in memory management and good facilities for calling and co-operating with other programs. There are two popular versions, 2.7 or 3.x, and in this ...
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