Practical Programming An Introduction to Computer Science Using Python 3

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ISBN: 9781937785451

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Edition: 2nd 2013

Authors: Paul Gries, Jennifer Campbell, Jason Montojo

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This book is for anyone who wants to understand computer programming. You'll learn to program in a language that' s used in millions of smartphones, tablets, and PCs. You'll code along with the book, writing programs to solve real-world problems as you learn the fundamentals of programming using Python 3. You'll learn about design, algorithms, testing, and debugging, and come away with all the tools you need to produce quality code. In this second edition, we've updated almost all the material, incorporating the lessons we've learned over the past five years of teaching Python to people new to programming.You don't need any programming experience to get started. First, you'll get a detailed…

Book details

List price: $38.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Pragmatic Programmers, LLC, The
Publication date: 10/4/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 350
Size: 7.50" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English

Paul Gries, is a senior lecturer in Computer Science at the University of Toronto. He has won numerous teaching awards and authored other introductory computer science texts.

Jennifer Campbell is a senior lecturer in Computer Science at theUniversity of Toronto who created the course this book is based on.

Jason Montojo, is a former student of Jennifer Campbell and Paul Gries, who has since worked on the Eclipse programming platform at IBM; he is also a professional photographer and digital artist, and created all of the diagrams for this book.



Acknowledgments


Preface



What's Programming?



Programs and Programming



What's a Programming Language?



What's a Bug?



The Difference Between Brackets, Braces, and Parentheses



Installing Python



Hello, Python



How Does a Computer Run a Python Program?



Expressions and Values: Arithmetic in Python



What Is a Type?



Variables and Computer Memory: Remembering Values



How Python Tells You Something Went Wrong



A Single Statement That Spans Multiple Lines



Describing Code



Making Code Readable



The Object of This Chapter



Exercises



Designing and Using Functions



Functions That Python Provides



Memory Addresses: How Python Keeps Track of Values



Defining Our Own Functions



Using Local Variables for Temporary Storage



Tracing Function Calls in the Memory Model



Designing New Functions: A Recipe



Writing and Running a Program



Omitting a Return Statement: None



Dealing with Situations That Your Code Doesn't Handle



What Did You Call That?



Exercises



Working with Text



Creating Strings of Characters



Using Special Characters in Strings



Creating a Multiline String



Printing Information



Getting Information from the Keyboard



Quotes About Strings in This Text



Exercises



Making Choices



A Boolean Type



Choosing Which Statements to Execute



Nested If Statements



Remembering the Results of a Boolean Expression Evaluation



You Learned About Booleans: True or False?



Exercises



A Modular Approach to Program Organization



Importing Modules



Defining Your Own Modules



Testing Your Code Semiautomatically



Tips for Grouping Your Functions



Organizing Our Thoughts



Exercises



Using Methods



Modules, Classes, and Methods



Calling Methods the Object-Oriented Way



Exploring String Methods



What Are Those Underscores?



A Methodical Review



Exercises



Storing Collections of Data Using Lists



Storing and Accessing Data in Lists



Modifying Lists



Operations on Lists



Slicing Lists



Aliasing: What's in a Name?



List Methods



Working with a List of Lists



A Summary List



Exercises



Repeating Code Using Loops



Processing Items in a List



Processing Characters in Strings



Looping Over a Range of Numbers



Processing Lists Using Indices



Nesting Loops in Loops



Looping Until a Condition Is Reached



Repetition Based on User Input



Controlling Loops Using Break and Continue



Repeating What You've Learned



Exercises



Reading and Writing Files



What Kinds of Files Are There?



Opening a File



Techniques for Reading Files



Files over the Internet



Writing Files



Writing Algorithms That Use the File-Reading Techniques



Multiline Records



Looking Ahead



Notes to File Away



Exercises



Storing Data Using Other Collection Types



Storing Data Using Sets



Storing Data Using Tuples



Storing Data Using Dictionaries



Inverting a Dictionary



Using the In Operator on Tuples, Sets, and Dictionaries



Comparing Collections



A Collection of New Information



Exercises



Designing Algorithms



Searching for the Smallest Values



Timing the Functions



At a Minimum, You Saw This



Exercises



Searching and Sorting



Searching a List



Binary Search



Sorting



More Efficient Sorting Algorithms



Mergesort: A Faster Sorting Algorithm



Sorting Out What You Learned



Exercises



Object-Oriented Programming



Understanding a Problem Domain



Function "Isinstance," Class Object, and Class Book



Writing a Method in Class Book



Plugging into Python Syntax: More Special Methods



A Little Bit of OO Theory



A Case Study: Molecules, Atoms, and PDB Files



Classifying What You've Learned



Exercises



Testing and Debugging



Why Do You Need to Test?



Case Study: Testing above_freezing



Case Study: Testing running_sum



Choosing Test Cases



Hunting Bugs



Bugs We've Put in Your Ear



Exercises



Creating Graphical User Interfaces



Using Module Tkinter



Building a Basic GUI



Models, Views, and Controllers, Oh My!



Customizing the Visual Style



Introducing a Few More Widgets



Object-Oriented GUIs



Keeping the Concepts from Being a GUI Mess



Exercises



Databases



Overview



Creating and Populating



Retrieving Data



Updating and Deleting



Using NULL for Missing Data



Using Joins to Combine Tables



Keys and Constraints



Advanced Features



Some Data Based On What You Learned



Exercises


Bibliography


Index