Begin to Code with Python

Table of contents

1. Cover Page
2. Title Page
3. Copyright Page
4. Dedication Page
5. About the author
6. Contents
7. Introduction
8. Part 1: Programming fundamentals
   1. 1 Starting with Python
      1. What is Python?
      2. Build a place to work with Python
      3. Start Python
      4. What you have learned
   2. 2 Python and Programming
      1. What makes a programmer
      2. Computers as data processors
      3. Data and information
      4. Work with Python functions
      5. What you have learned
   3. 3 Python program structure
      1. Write your first Python program
      2. Use Python libraries
      3. Python comments
      4. Run Python from the desktop
      5. Adding some snaps
      6. What you have learned
   4. 4 Working with variables
      1. Variables in Python
      2. Working with text
      3. Working with numbers
      4. Weather snaps
      5. What you have learned
   5. 5 Making decisions in programs
      1. Boolean data
      2. The if construction
      3. Use decisions to make an application
      4. Input snaps
      5. What you have learned
   6. 6 Repeating actions with loops
      1. The while construction
      2. The for loop construction
      3. Make a digital clock using snaps
      4. What you have learned
   7. 7 Using functions to simplify programs
      1. What makes a function?
      2. Build reusable functions
      3. What you have learned
   8. 8 Storing collections of data
      1. Lists and tracking sales
      2. Refactor programs into functions
      3. Sort using bubble sort
      4. Store data in a file
      5. Store tables of data
      6. Use lists as lookup tables
      7. Tuples
      8. What you have learned
9. Part 2: Advanced programming
   1. 9 Use classes to store data
      1. Make a tiny contacts app
      2. Dictionaries
      3. What you have learned
   2. 10 Use classes to create active objects
      1. Create a Time Tracker
      2. Create class properties
      3. Evolve class design
      4. The __str__ method in a class
      5. Session tracking in Time Tracker
      6. Make music with Snaps
      7. What you have learned
   3. 11 Object-based solutiondesign
      1. Fashion Shop application
      2. Create a FashionShop component
      3. Design with classes
      4. Python sets
      5. What you have learned
   4. 12 Python applications
      1. Advanced functions
      2. Modules and packages
      3. Program testing
      4. View program documentation
      5. What you have learned
10. Part 3: Useful Python (Digital-only)
    1. 13 Python and Graphical User Interfaces
       1. Visual Studio Code
       2. Create a Graphical User Interface with Tkinter
       3. What you have learned
    2. 14 Python programs as network clients
       1. Computer networking
       2. Consume the web from Python
       3. What you have learned
    3. 15 Python programs as network servers
       1. Create a web server in Python
       2. Host Python applications on the web
       3. What you have learned
    4. 16 Create games with Pygame
       1. Getting started with pygame
       2. Draw images with pygame
       3. Get user input from pygame
       4. Create game sprites
       5. Complete the game
       6. What you have learned
11. Index
12. Code Snippets