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 Clas
How to think like a computer scientist: learning with python
β Scribed by Allen B. Downey, Jeffrey Elkner, Chris Meyers
- Book ID
- 106641243
- Publisher
- Green Tea Press
- Year
- 2002
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 871 KB
- Edition
- 1st ed
- Category
- Library
- City
- Wellesley, MA
- ISBN-13
- 9780971677500
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β¦ Synopsis
"How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: Learning with Python" is anintroduction to computer science using the Python programminglanguage. It covers the basics of computer programming, includingvariables and values, functions, conditionals and control flow,program development and debugging. Later chapters cover basicalgorithms and data structures.
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