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| (NOTE: Each chapter begins with an Introduction.) | |
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| Introduction to Computers, Internet and World Wide Web | |
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| What Is a Computer? Computer Organization | |
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| Evolution of Operating Systems | |
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| Personal Computing, Distributed Computing and Client/Server Computing | |
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| Machine Languages, Assembly Languages and High-Level Languages | |
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| Structured Programming | |
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| Object-Oriented Programming | |
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| Hardware Trends | |
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| History of the Internet and World Wide Web | |
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| World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) | |
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| Extensible Markup Language (XML) | |
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| Open-Source Software Revolution | |
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| History of Python | |
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| Python Modules | |
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| General Notes about Python and This Book | |
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| Tour of the Book | |
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| Internet and World Wide Web Resources | |
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| Introduction to Python Programming | |
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| First Program in Python: Printing a Line of Text | |
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| Modifying our First Python Program | |
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| Another Python Program: Adding Integers | |
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| Memory Concepts | |
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| Arithmetic | |
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| String Formatting | |
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| Decision Making: Equality and Relational Operators | |
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| Indentation | |
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| Thinking About Objects: Introduction to Object Technology | |
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| Control Structures | |
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| Algorithms | |
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| Pseudocode | |
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| Control Structures | |
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| if Selection Structure | |
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| if/else and if/elif/else Selection Structures | |
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| while Repetition Structure | |
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| Formulating Algorithms: Case Study 1: (Counter-Controlled Repetition) | |
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| Formulating Algorithms with Top-Down, Stepwise Refinement: Case Study 2: (Sentinel-Controlled Repetition) | |
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| Formulating Algorithms with Top-Down, Stepwise Refinement: Case Study 3: (Nested Control Structures) | |
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| Augmented Assignment Symbols | |
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| Essentials of Counter-Controlled Repetition | |
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| for Repetition Structure | |
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| Using the for Repetition Structure | |
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| break and continue Statements | |
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| Logical Operators | |
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| Structured-Programming Summary | |
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| Functions | |
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| Program Components in Python | |
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| Functions | |
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| Module math Functions | |
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| Function Definitions | |
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| Random-Number Generation | |
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| Example: A Game of Chance | |
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| Scope Rules | |
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| Keyword import and Namespaces | |
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| Recursion | |
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| Example Using Recursion: The Fibonacci Series | |
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| Recursion vs Iteration | |
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| Default Arguments | |
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| Keyword Arguments | |
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| Lists, Tuples and Dictionaries | |
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| Sequences | |
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| Creating Sequences | |
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| Using Lists and Tuples | |
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| Dictionaries | |
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| List and Dictionary Methods | |
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| References and Reference Parameters | |
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| Passing Lists to Functions | |
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| Sorting and Searching Lists | |
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| Multiple-Subscripted Sequences | |
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| Introduction to the Common Gateway Interface (CGI) | |
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| Client and Web Server Interaction | |
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| Simple CGI Script | |
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| Sending Input to a CGI Script | |
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| Using XHTML Forms to Send Input and Using Module cgi to Retrieve Form Data | |
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| Using cgi FieldStorage to Read Input | |
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| Other HTTP Headers | |
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| Example: Interactive Portal | |
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| Internet and World Wide Web Resources | |
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| Object-Based Programming | |
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| Implementing a Time Abstract Data Type with a Class | |
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| Special Attributes | |
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| Controlling Access to Attributes | |
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| Using Default Arguments with Constructors | |
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| Destructors | |
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| Class Attributes | |
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| Composition: Object References as Members of Classes | |
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| Data Abstraction and Information Hiding | |
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| Software Reusability | |
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| Customizing Classes | |
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| Customizing String Representation: Method__str__ Customizing Attribute Access | |
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| Operator Overloading | |
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| Restrictions on Operator Overloading | |
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| Overloading Unary Operators | |
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| Overloading Binary Operators | |
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| Overloading Built-in Functions | |
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| Converting Between Types | |
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| Case Study: A Rational Class | |
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| Overloading Sequence Operations | |
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| Case Study: A SingleList Class | |
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| Overloading Mapping Operations | |
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| Case Study: A SimpleDictionary Class | |
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| Object-Oriented Programming: Inheritance | |
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| Inheritance: Base Classes and Derived Classes | |
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| Creating Base Classes and Derived Classes | |
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| Overriding Base-Class Methods in a Derived Class | |
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| Software Engineering with Inheritance | |
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| Composition vs Inheritance | |
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| "Uses A" and "Knows A" | |
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| Relationships | |
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| Case Study: Point, Circle, Cylinder | |
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| Abstract Base Classes and Concrete Classes | |
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| Case Study: Inheriting Interface and Implementation | |
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| Polymorphism | |
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| Classes and Python 22 | |
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| Graphical User Interface Components: Part 1 | |
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| Tkinter Overview | |
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| Simple Tkinter Example: Label Component | |
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| Event Handling Model | |
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| Entry Component | |
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| Button Component | |
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| Checkbutton and Radiobutton Components | |
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| Mouse Event Handling | |
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| Keyboard Event Handling | |
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| Layout Managers | |
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| Card Shuffling and Dealing Simulation | |
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| Internet and World Wide Web Resources | |
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| Graphical User Interface Components: Part 2 | |
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| Overview of Pmw | |
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| ScrolledListbox Component | |
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| ScrolledText Component | |
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| MenuBar Component | |
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| Popup Menus | |
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| Canvas Component | |
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| Scale Component | |
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| Other GUI Toolkits | |
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| Exception Handling | |
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| Raising an Exception | |
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| Exception-Handling Overview | |
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| Example: DivideByZeroError | |
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| Python Exception Hierarchy | |
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| finally Clause | |
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| Exception Objects and Tracebacks | |
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| Programmer-Defined Exception Classes | |
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| String Manipulation and Regular Expressions | |
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| Fundamentals of Characters and Strings | |
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| String Presentation | |
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| Searching Strings | |
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| Joining and Splitting Strings | |
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| Regular Expressions | |
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| Compiling Regular Expressions and Manipulating Regular-Expression Objects | |
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| Regular-Expression Repetition and Placement Characters | |
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| Classes and Special Sequences | |
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| Regular Expression String-Manipulation Functions | |
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| Grouping | |
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| Internet and World Wide Web Resources | |
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| File Processing and Serialization | |
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| Data Hierarchy | |
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| Files and Streams | |
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| Creating a Sequential-Access File | |
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| Reading Data from a Sequential-Access File | |
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| Updating Sequential-Access Files | |
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| Random-Access Files | |
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| Simulating a Random-Access File: The shelve Module | |
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| Writing Data to a shelve File | |
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| Retrieving Data from a shelve File | |
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| Example: A Transaction-Processing Program | |
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| Object Serialization | |
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| Extensible Markup Language (XML) | |
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| XML Documents | |
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| XML Namespaces | |
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| Document Object Model (DOM) | |
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| Simple API for XML (SAX) | |
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| Document Type Definitions (DTDs), Schemas and Validation | |
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| XML Vocabularies | |
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| Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) | |
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| Internet and World Wide Web Resources | |
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| Python XML Processing | |
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| Generating XML Content Dynamically | |
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| XML Processing Packages | |
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| Document Object Model (DOM) | |
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| Parsing XML with xml.sax | |
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| Case Study: Message Forums with Python and XML | |
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| Internet and World Wide Web Resources | |
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| Database Application Programming Interface(DB-API) | |
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| Relational Database Model | |
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| Relational Database Overview: Books Database | |
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| Structured Query Language (SQL) | |
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| Python DB-API Specification | |
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| Database Query Example | |
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| Querying the Books Database | |
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| Reading, Inserting and Updating a Database | |
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| Internet and World Wide Web Resources | |
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| Process Management | |
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| os.fork Function | |
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| os.system Function and os.exec Family of Functions | |
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| Controlling Process Input and Output | |
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| Interprocess Communication | |
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| Signal Handling | |
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| Sending Signals | |
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| Multithreading | |
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| Thread States: Life Cycle of a Thread | |
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| threading | |
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| ThreadExample | |
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| Thread Synchronization | |
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| Producer/Consumer Relationship without Thread Synchronization | |
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| Producer/Consumer Relationship with Thread Synchronization | |
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| Producer/Consumer Relationship: Module Queue | |
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| Producer/Consumer Relationship: The Circular Buffer | |
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| Semaphores | |
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| Events | |
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| Networking | |
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| Accessing URLs over HTTP | |
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| Establishing a Simple Server (Using Stream Sockets) | |
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| Establishing a Simple Client (Using Stream Sockets) | |
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| Client/Server Interaction with Stream Socket Connections | |
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| Connectionless Client/Server Interaction with Datagrams | |
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| Client/Server Tic-Tac-Toe Using a Multithreaded Server | |
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| Security | |
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| Ancient Ciphers to Modern Cryptosystems | |
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| Secret-Key Cryptography | |
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| Public-Key Cryptography | |
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| Cryptanalysis | |
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| Key-Agreement Protocols | |
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| Key Management | |
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| Digital Signatures | |
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| Public-Key Infrastructure, Certificates and Certificate Authorities | |
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| Security Protocols | |
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| Authentication | |
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| Security Attacks | |
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| Running Restricted Python Code | |
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| Network Security | |
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| Steganography | |
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| Internet and World Wide Web Resources | |
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| Data Structures | |
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| Self-Referential Classes | |
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| Linked Lists | |
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| Stacks | |
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| Queues | |
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| Trees | |
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| Case Study: Online Bookstore | |
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| HTTP Sessions and Session-Tracking Technologies | |
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| Tracking Sessions in the Bookstore | |
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| Bookstore Architecture | |
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| Configuring the Bookstore | |
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| Entering the Bookstore | |
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| Obtaining the Book List from the Database | |
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| Viewing a Book's Details | |
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| Adding an Item to the Shopping Cart | |
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| Viewing the Shopping Cart | |
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| Checking Out | |
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| Processing the Order | |
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| Error Handling | |
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| Handling Wireless Clients (XHTML Basic and WML) | |
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| Internet and World Wide Web Resources | |
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| Multimedia | |
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| Introduction to PyOpenGL | |
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| PyOpenGL Examples | |
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| Introduction to Alice | |
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| Fox, Chicken and Seed Problem | |
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| Introduction to pygame | |
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| Python CD Player | |
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| Python Movie Player | |
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| Pygame Space Cruiser | |
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| Internet and World Wide Web Resources | |
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| Python Server Pages (PSP) | |
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| Python Servlets | |
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| Python Server Pages Overview | |
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| First Python Server Page Example | |
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| Implicit Objects | |
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| Scripting | |
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| Standard Actions | |
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| Directives | |
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| Case Study: Message Forums with Python and XML | |
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| Internet and World Wide Web Resources | |
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| Operator Precedence Chart | |
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| ASC II Character Set | |
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| Number Systems | |
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| Introduction: Abbreviating Binary Numbers as Octal Numbers and Hexadecimal Numbers | |
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| Converting Octal Numbers and Hexadecimal Numbers to Binary Numbers | |
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| Converting from Binary, Octal or Hexadecimal to Decimal | |
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| Converting from Decimal to Binary, Octal or Hexadecimal | |
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| Negative Binary Numbers: Two's Complement Notation | |
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| Python Development Environments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Integrated Development Environment: IDLE | |
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| Other Integrated Development Environments | |
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| Internet and World Wide Web Resources | |
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| Career Opportunities | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Resources for the Job Seeker | |
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| Online Opportunities for Employers | |
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| Recruiting Services | |
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| Career Sites | |
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| Internet and World Wide Web Resources | |
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| Unicode“ | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Unicode | |
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| Characters and Glyphs | |
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| Advantages and Disadvantages of Unicode | |
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| Unicode Consortium's Web Site | |
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| Using Unicode | |
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| Character Ranges | |
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| Introduction to HyperText Markup Language 4: Part 1 | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Markup Languages | |
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| Editing HTML | |
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| Common Elements | |
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| Headers | |
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| Linking | |
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| Images | |
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| Special Characters and More Line Breaks | |
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| Unordered Lists | |
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| Nested and Ordered Lists | |
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| Internet and World Wide Web Resources | |
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| Introduction to HyperText Markup Language 4: Part 2 | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Basic HTML Tables | |
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| Intermediate HTML Tables and Formatting | |
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| Basic HTML Forms | |
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| More Complex HTML Forms | |
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| Internal Linking | |
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| Creating and Using Image Maps | |
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| meta Elements | |
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| frameset Element | |
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| Nested framesets | |
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| Internet and World Wide Web Resources | |
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| Introduction to XHTML: Part 1 | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Editing XHTML | |
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| First XHTML Example | |
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| W3C XHTML Validation Service | |
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| Headers | |
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| Linking | |
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| Images | |
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| Special Characters and More Line Breaks | |
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| Unordered Lists | |
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| Nested and Ordered Lists | |
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| Internet and World Wide Web Resources | |
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| Introduction to XHTML: Part 2 | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Basic XHTML Tables | |
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| Intermediate XHTML Tables and Formatting | |
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| Basic XHTML Forms | |
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| More Complex XHTML Forms | |
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| Internal Linking | |
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| Creating and Using Image Maps | |
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| meta Elements | |
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| framese Element | |
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| Nested framesets | |
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| Internet and World Wide Web Resources | |
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| Cascading Style Sheets� (CSS) | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Inline Styles | |
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| Embedded Style Sheets | |
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| Conflicting Styles | |
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| Linking External Style Sheets | |
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| W3C CSS Validation Service | |
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| Positioning Elements | |
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| Backgrounds | |
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| Element Dimensions | |
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| Text Flow and the Box Model | |
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| User Style Sheets | |
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| Internet and World Wide Web Resources | |
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| Accessibility | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Web Accessibility | |
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| Web Accessibility Initiative | |
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| Providing Alternatives for Images | |
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| Maximizing Readability by Focusing on Structure | |
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| Accessibility in XHTML Tables | |
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| Accessibility in XHTML Frames | |
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| Accessibility in XML | |
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| Using Voice Synthesis and Recognition with VoiceXML� | |
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| Cal1XML� | |
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| JAWS“ for Windows | |
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| Other Accessibility Tools | |
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| Accessibility in Microsoft“ Windows“ 2000 | |
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| Internet and World Wide Web Resources | |
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| HTML/XHTML Special Characters | |
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| HTML/XHTML Colors | |
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| Additional Python 22 Features | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Iterators | |
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| Generators | |
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| Nested Scopes | |
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| Internet and World Wide Web Resources | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |