Supercharged Python: Take Your Code to the Next Level, First Edition

Contents

Preface

What Makes Python Special?

Paths to Learning: Where Do I Start?

Clarity and Examples Are Everything

Learning Aids: Icons

What You’ll Learn

Have Fun

Acknowledgments

About the Authors

Chapter 1 Review of the Fundamentals

1.1 Python Quick Start

1.2 Variables and Naming Names

1.3 Combined Assignment Operators

1.4 Summary of Python Arithmetic Operators

1.5 Elementary Data Types: Integer and Floating Point

1.6 Basic Input and Output

1.7 Function Definitions

1.8 The Python “if” Statement

1.9 The Python “while” Statement

1.10 A Couple of Cool Little Apps

1.11 Summary of Python Boolean Operators

1.12 Function Arguments and Return Values

1.13 The Forward Reference Problem

1.14 Python Strings

1.15 Python Lists (and a Cool Sorting App) ...