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A Concise Introduction to Programming in Python, 2nd Edition
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A Concise Introduction to Programming in Python, 2nd Edition

by Mark J. Johnson
April 2018
Beginner to intermediate
227 pages
4h 53m
English
Chapman and Hall/CRC
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CHAPTER 2

Numeric Data

In this chapter, we shift from turtle graphics to handling numeric information in Python.

2.1 VARIABLES AND ASSIGNMENT

 

Example 2.1 shows one way to implement our own version of the built-in max() function1 described in Table 2.1. It illustrates several important new concepts.

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Example 2.1 Maximum.

TABLE 2.1 Numeric functions

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Variables

As we saw in Chapter 1, variables allow us to keep track of and manipulate data in programs. In Python, a variable is a name that refers to a value during program execution. ...

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