Merry Christmas, dear readers!

Since it’s the season of giving, Packt Publishing offered to organize a contest with prize – 2 print copies and 2 ebooks of my book NumPy Beginner’s Guide.

The Prize

What you will learn from NumPy 1.5 Beginner’s Guide

Installing NumPy

Learn to load arrays from files and write arrays to files

Work with universal functions

Create NumPy matrices

Use basic modules that NumPy offers

Write unit tests for NumPy code

Plot mathematical NumPy results with Matplotlib

Integrate with Scipy, a high level Python scientific computing framework built on top of NumPy

The book is written in beginner’s guide style with each aspect of NumPy demonstrated by real world examples. You can also download a sample chapter.

How to Win NumPy Beginner’s Guide

You can enter by writing a comment to this post explaining why you would like to have the book. The contest has already started and will end on January 31st 2012 at 11:59 PM GMT. Winners will be randomly chosen and notified by email, after termination of the contest.

The contest is open to everybody in the world, however print copies are only available to residents of the US and Europe.

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Good luck, readers!