Dr. Harvey M. Deitel and Paul J. Deitel are the founders of Deitel & Associates, Inc., the internationally-recognized corporate-training and content-creation organization specializing in Python, Visual Basic .NET, C#, Visual C++ .NET, Java, C++, C, XML, Perl, Internet, Web, wireless and object technologies. The Deitels are the authors of several worldwide #1 programming-language textbooks, including Java How to Program, 4/e, C++ How to Program, 3/e and Internet & World Wide Web How to Program, 2/e.

In Python How to Program, the Deitels and their colleagues, Jonathan Liperi and Ben Wiedermann, discuss topics you need to build complete Web-based applications, including:
??” HTML/XHTML ??” Python Server Pages/CGI ??” Networking/Sockets ??” GUI/Tkinter/Python Mega Widgets ??” PyOpenGL/Multimedia/Accessibility ??” Databases/DB-API/SQL ??” File Processing/Serialization ??” Modules/Classes/Class Attributes ??” Class Customization/Method Overriding ??” Control Structures/Functions/Inheritance ??” String Manipulation/Regular Expressions ??” Lists/Tuples/Dictionaries/Data Structures ??” Process Management/Multithreading ??” Interprocess Communication ??” Exceptions/XML Processing ??” Security/Restricted Execution