com/) fintech start-up helping small and medium businesses raise capital from investors and different financial institutions in the pasthe has worked with early stage start-ups such as blockbeacon (santa monicaand pricepoint (caand large organizations such as national instrumentsbangaloreand googlenew york krishna got introduced to python and foss during his college days and has continued to use it extensively in his personal projects and also professionally at work because of his liking for teaching and mentoringhe visits different universitiesconducting workshops whenever he gets an opportunity he holds master' degree in computer science from the university of southern californialos angelesand bachelor' degree in information science and engineering from the bms college of engineeringbangalore he can be reached through his -mailkrishna@krishnabharadwaj infoor his websitejustin cano is recent graduate from the university of californiariversidewith bs in computer engineering and is currently working as software engineer in the silicon valley area with hopes of moving to big tech company such as google or apple he first started programming in the sixth gradecreating smallprimitive websites in html and css he started to learn computer science theory and +in his first year at uc riverside and then started learning python in his third year justin admits that at firsthe wasn' immediately attracted to pythonsince abstractions between +and python are very different it wasn' until he began to express more of an interest in coding contests and challenges that he began to show interest in pythonmainly because he feels that the readability and elegance of the python syntax allows him to quickly and more naturally turn ideas and thought processes into python code he now writes python code regularlyoften to create mock-ups or prototypes of software applications before moving on to more domain-specific language would like to thank the author for taking the time to write this book as have received lot of valuable insights and information on the python language and design patterns this book has strengthened my understanding of pythonand believe that am now more knowledgeable python programmer