Think Python

Name: Think Python
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ISBN: 9781449330729

ISBN-10: 144933072X

ISBN-13: 9781449330729

Edition: 2012

Authors: Allen B. Downey

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Think Python is an introduction to Python programming for students with no programming experience. It starts with the most basic concepts of programming, and is carefully designed to define all terms when they are first used and to develop each new concept in a logical progression. Larger pieces, like recursion and object-oriented programming are divided into a sequence of smaller steps and introduced over the course of several chapters.

Book details

List price: $35.99
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/4/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 300
Size: 7.00" wide x 9.19" long x 0.86" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Allen Downey is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the Olin College of Engineering. He has taught computer science at Wellesley College, Colby College and U.C. Berkeley. He has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from U.C. Berkeley and Master's and Bachelor's degrees from MIT.



Preface



The Way of the Program


The Python Programming Language


What Is a Program?


What Is Debugging?


Syntax Errors


Runtime Errors


Semantic Errors


Experimental Debugging


Formal and Natural Languages


The First Program


Debugging


Glossary


Exercises



Variables, Expressions, and Statements


Values and Types


Variables


Variable Names and Keywords


Operators and Operands


Expressions and Statements


Interactive Mode and Script Mode


Order of Operations


String Operations


Comments


Debugging


Glossary



Functions


Function Calls


Type Conversion Functions


Math Functions


Composition


Adding New Functions


Definitions and Uses


Flow of Execution


Parameters and Arguments


Variables and Parameters Are Local


Stack Diagrams


Fruitful Functions and Void Functions


Why Functions?


Importing with from


Debugging


Glossary


Exercises



Case Study: Interface Design


Turtle World


Simple Repetition


Exercises


Encapsulation


Generalization


Interface Design


Refactoring


A Development Plan


Docstring


Debugging


Glossary


Exercises



Conditionals and Recursion


Modulus Operator


Boolean Expressions


Logical Operators


Conditional Execution


Alternative Execution


Chained Conditionals


Nested Conditionals


Recursion


Stack Diagrams for Recursive Functions


Infinite Recursion


Keyboard Input


Debugging


Glossary


Exercises



Fruitful Functions


Return Values


Incremental Development


Composition


Boolean Functions


More Recursion


Leap of Faith


One More Example


Checking Types


Debugging


Glossary


Exercises



Iteration


Multiple Assignment


Updating Variables


The while Statement


break


Square Roots


Algorithms


Debugging


Glossary


Exercises



Strings


A String Is a Sequence


len


Traversal with a for Loop


String Slices


Strings Are Immutable


Searching


Looping and Counting


String Methods


The in Operator


String Comparison


Debugging


Glossary


exercises



Case Study: Word Play


Reading Word Lists


Exercises


Search


Looping with Indices


Debugging


Glossary


Exercises



Lists


A List Is a Sequence


Lists Are Mutable


Traversing a List


List Operations


List Slices


List Methods


Map, Filter, and Reduce


Deleting Elements


Lists and Strings


Objects and Values


Aliasing


List Arguments


Debugging


Glossary


Exercises



Dictionaries


Dictionary as a Set of Counters


Looping and Dictionaries


Reverse Lookup


Dictionaries and Lists


Memos


Global Variables


Long Integers


Debugging


Glossary



Tuples


Tuples Are Immutable


Tuple Assignment


Tuples as Return Values


Variable-Length Argument Tuples


Lists and Tuples


Dictionaries and Tuples


Comparing Tuples


Sequences of Sequences


Debugging


Glossary


Exercises



Case Study: Data Structure Selection


Word Frequency Analysis


Random Numbers


Word Histogram


Most Common Words


Optional Parameters


Dictionary Subtraction


Random Words


Markov Analysis


Data Structures


Debugging


Glossary


Exercises



Files


Persistence


Reading and Writing


Format Operator


Filenames and Paths


Catching Exceptions


Databases


Pickling


Pipes


Writing Modules


Debugging


Glossary



Classes and Objects


User-Defined Types


Attributes


Rectangles


Instances as Return Values


Objects Are Mutable


Copying


Debugging


Glossary


Exercises



Classes and Functions


Time


Pure Functions


Modifiers


Prototyping Versus Planning


Debugging


Glossary


Exercises



Classes and Methods


Object-Oriented Features


Printing Objects


Another Example


A More Complicated Example


The init Method


The_str_Method


Operator Overloading


Type-Based Dispatch


Polymorphism


Debugging


Interface and Implementation


Glossary


Exercises



Inheritance


Card Objects


Class Attributes


Comparing Cards


Decks


Printing the Deck


Add, Remove, Shuffle, and Sort


Inheritance


Class Diagrams


Debugging


Data Encapsulation


Glossary


Exercises



Case Study: Tkinter


GUI


Buttons and Callbacks


Canvas Widgets


Coordinate Sequences


More Widgets


Packing Widgets


Menus and Callables


Binding


Debugging


Glossary


Exercises



Debugging



Analysis of Algorithms



Lumpy


Index