Book description
Suitable for newcomers to computer science, A Concise Introduction to Programming in Python provides a succinct, yet complete, first course in computer science using the Python programming language. The book features:Short, modular chapters with brief and precise explanations, intended for one class periodEarly introduction of basic procedural cons
Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Contents
- Code Listings
- Preface
- About the Author
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Part I: Foundations
- 1. Computer Systems and Software
- 2. Python Program Components
- 3. Functions
- 4. Repetition: For Loops
- 5. Computer Memory: Integers
- 6. Selection: If Statements
- 7. Algorithm Design and Debugging
- 8. Repetition: While Loops
- Project: Newton's Method
- 9. Computer Memory: Floats
- 10. Simulation
- Project: Visualization
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Part II: Collections and Files
- 11. Strings
- 12. Building Strings
- Project: ISBN Check Digits
- 13. Computer Memory: Text
- 14. Lists
- Project: Program Performance
- Project: Heat Diffusion
- 15. Files
- 16. String Methods
- Project: File Compression
- 17. Mutable and Immutable Objects
- Project: Hangman
- 18. Dictionaries
- Project: ELIZA
- Project: Shannon Entropy
- Project: Reading DNA Frames
- Part III: Selected Topics
- Bibliography
Product information
- Title: A Concise Introduction to Programming in Python
- Author(s):
- Release date: December 2011
- Publisher(s): Chapman and Hall/CRC
- ISBN: 9781498759694
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