Python for Software Design : How to Think Like a Computer Scientist

✍ Scribed by Allen B Downey

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 271
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

A no-nonsense introduction to software design using the Python programming language, for people with no programming experience.

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Python for Software Design; 1 The Way of the Program; 2 Variables, Expressions, and Statements; 3 Functions; 4 Case Study: Interface Design; 5 Conditionals and Recursion; 6 Fruitful Functions; 7 Iteration; 8 Strings; 9 Case Study: Word Play; 10 Lists; 11 Dictionaries; 12 Tuples; 13 Case Study: Data Structure Selection; 14 Files; 15 Classes and Objects; 16 Classes and Functions; 17 Classes and Methods; 18 Inheritance; 19 Case Study: Tkinter; Appendix Debugging; Index.
Abstract: A no-nonsense introduction to software design using the Python programming language, for people with no programming experience