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by Cristina Videira Lopes (Author)
The first edition was honored as an ACM Notable Book and praised as "The best programming book of the decade." This new edition retains the same presentation but has been upgraded to Python 3 with a new section on neural network styles.
Author Biography
Cristina (Crista) Lopes is a Professor of Informatics at the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, University of California, Irvine. Her research focuses on software engineering for large-scale data and systems. Early in her career, she was a founding member of the team at Xerox PARC that developed Aspect-Oriented Programming and AspectJ. Along with her research program, she is also a proli□c software developer. Her open source contributions include acoustic software modems, and the virtual world server OpenSimulator. She is a co-founder of a company specializing in online virtual reality for early-stage sustainable urban redevelopment projects. She developed and maintains a search engine for OpenSimulator-based virtual worlds. Dr. Lopes has a PhD from Northeastern University, and MS and BS degrees from Instituto Superior T□ecnico in Portugal. She is the recipient of several National Science Foundation grants, including a prestigious CAREER Award. She claims to be the only person in the world who is both an ACM Distinguished Scientist and Ohloh Kudos Rank 9.
