How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: Learning With Python

✍ Scribed by Downey, Allen B;Elkner, Jeffrey;Meyers, Chris

• Publisher: Green Tea Press
• Year: 2005;2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 280
• Series: Online access: Center for Open Education Open Textbook Library
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Here you'll find a short introduction to Logo as a general purpose programming language, as opposed to its limited educational use with turtle graphics. Logo is a simplified dialect of Lisp and retains much of the power of Lisp. It is thus suitable for such advanced projects such as artificial intelligence programming.

✦ Table of Contents

1 The way of the program --
2 Variables, expressions and statements --
3 Functions --
4 Conditionals and recursion --
5 Fruitful functions --
6 Iteration --
7 Strings --
8 Lists --
9 Tuples --
10 Dictionaries --
11 Files and exceptions --
12 Classes and objects --
13 Classes and functions --
14 Classes and methods --
15 Sets of objects --
16 Inheritance --
17 Linked lists --
18 Stacks --
19 Queues --
20 Trees --
Appendix A: Debugging --
Appendix B: Creating a new data type --
Appendix C: Recommendations for further reading Index

✦ Subjects

Computer Science;Programming;Science;Nonfiction;Technology;Coding;Technical;Computers;Reference;Textbooks