Learn to Program with Python

✍ Scribed by Irv Kalb (auth.)

• Publisher: Apress
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 281
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Get started in the world of software development: go from zero knowledge of programming to comfortably writing small to medium-sized programs in Python. Programming can be intimidating (especially when most books on software require you to know and use obscure command line instructions) but it doesn’t have to be that way!
In , author Irv Kalb uses his in-person teaching experience to guide you through learning the Python computer programming language. He uses a conversational style to make you feel as though he is your personal tutor. All material is laid out in a thoughtful manner, each lesson building on previous ones. Many real–world analogies make the material easy to relate to. A wide variety of well-documented examples are provided. Along the way, you’ll develop small programs onyour own through a series of coding challenges that reinforce the content of the chapters.
Learn fundamental programming concepts including: variables and assignment statements, functions, conditionals, loops, lists, strings, file input and output, Internet data, and data structures
Get comfortable with the free IDLE Interactive Development Environment (IDE), which you will use to write and debug all your Python code - no need to use the command line!
Build text-based programs, including a number of simple games
Learn how to re-use code by building your own modules
Use Pythons built-in data structures and packages to represent and make use of complex data from the Internet

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxi
Getting Started....Pages 1-6
Variables and Assignment Statements....Pages 7-34
Built-in Functions....Pages 35-46
User-Defined Functions....Pages 47-70
if, else, and elif Statements....Pages 71-101
Loops....Pages 103-132
Lists....Pages 133-163
Strings....Pages 165-180
File Input/Output....Pages 181-208
Internet Data....Pages 209-225
Data Structures....Pages 227-255
Where to Go from Here....Pages 257-260
Back Matter....Pages 261-263

✦ Subjects

Programming Techniques