January 2018
Beginner
639 pages
15h 54m
English
Content preview from Head First Learn to Code
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Index
Symbols
\ (backslash) 400
: (colon)
file paths 401
indented statements and 82, 105, 183
key/value pairs 364
slice syntax and 272–273
, (comma) 255, 364, 579
{} (curly brackets) 445, 580
. (dot notation)
attributes and 321
classes and modules 318
docstrings 300–302
examples of 77, 294, 308, 529
methods and 321
variables and 321
__ (double underscore) 51
== (equality operator) 81–82, 93
= (equal sign)
assignment operator 38, 82
keywords arguments 212
** (exponentiation operator) 47–48
/ (forward slash)
as division operator 47–48
as file path separator 400–401
> (greater than operator) 80, 93
>= (greater than or equal to operator) 81
# (hash character) 24, 99
< (less than operator) 93
% (modulus operator) 47–49
* (multiplication operator) 45, 47–48
- (negation operator) 47–48
!= (not equal operator) 81, 101–102
() (parentheses)
Boolean expressions and 102
in functions 60, 183
grouping operations 45
operator precedence and 48
subclassing 536
+ (plus sign)
addition operator 47–48, 158
concatenation and 25–26
>>>> prompt 40
“” (quotation marks)
declaring lists 25–26
strings and 42, 88, 250–251
[] (square brackets) 24–25
- (subtraction operator) 47–48
@ syntax 583
_ (underscore) 51
A
ABC programming language 15
absolute paths 401
abstracting code
about , 179–182, xiv–xvii
avatar example 195–199
object-oriented programming. See OOP
organizing modules for reuse 292–293, 299–304
turning into functions 183–190, 525
Web APIs and. See Web APIs
access tokens (Web API) 440
addition ...
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