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Irv Kalb, Learn to Program with Python, 10.1007/978-1-4842-2172-3_1

1. Getting Started

Irv Kalb

(1)Mountain View, California, USA

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Welcome

Congratulations, you have made a wise decision. No, not the decision to buy this book, although I think that will turn out to be a wise decision also. I mean that you have made a good decision to learn the basics of computer programming using the Python language.

In this book, I teach you the fundamentals of writing computer software. I assume that you have never written any software before, so I start completely from scratch. ...

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