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Tabla de Contenidos: “…6.5 Keyword arguments -- 6.6 Default argument values -- 6.7 Formatting conventions -- 6.8 Nested functions -- 6.9 Variable scope -- 6.10 Functions are objects -- 6.11 Anonymous functions -- 6.12 Recursion -- 6.13 Summary -- Chapter 7: Organizing Objects into Classes -- 7.1 Objects -- 7.2 Classes, methods, and variables -- 7.3 Object representation -- 7.4 Magic methods -- 7.5 Attributes and properties -- 7.6 Naming conventions and encapsulation -- 7.7 Commenting Python code -- 7.8 Documenting Python code -- 7.9 Enumerations -- 7.10 More polynomial magic -- 7.11 Class variables -- 7.12 Class and static methods -- 7.13 Inheritance -- 7.14 Iterators -- 7.15 Generators -- 7.16 Objects in collections -- 7.17 Creating modules -- 7.18 Summary -- Chapter 8: Working with Files -- 8.1 Paths and the file system -- 8.2 Moving around the file system -- 8.3 Creating and removing directories -- 8.4 Lists of files and folders -- 8.5 Names and locations -- 8.6 Types of files -- 8.7 Reading and writing files -- 8.8 Saving and restoring data -- 8.9 Summary -- Part II: Algorithms and Circuits -- Chapter 9: Understanding Gates and Circuits -- 9.1 The software stack -- 9.2 Boolean operations and bit logic gates -- 9.3 Logic circuits -- 9.4 Simplifying bit expressions -- 9.5 Universality for bit gates -- 9.6 Quantum gates and operations -- 9.7 Quantum circuits -- 9.8 Universality for quantum gates -- 9.9 Summary -- Chapter 10: Optimizing and Testing Your Code -- 10.1 Testing your code -- 10.2 Timing how long your code takes to run -- 10.3 Optimizing your code -- 10.4 Looking for orphan code -- 10.5 Defining and using decorators -- 10.6 Summary -- Chapter 11: Searching for the Quantum Improvement -- 11.1 Classical searching -- 11.2 Quantum searching via Grover -- 11.3 Oracles -- 11.4 Inversion about the mean -- 11.5 Amplitude amplification -- 11.6 Searching over two qubits…”

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