Think Python How to Think Like a Computer Scientist

Think Python is a concise introduction to software design using the Python programming language. Intended for people with no programming experience, this book starts with the most basic concepts and gradually adds new material. Some of the ideas students find most challenging, like recursion and obj...

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Main Author: Downey, Allen B. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] Green Tea Press [2012]
Edition:2e
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505 0 |a 1 The way of the program -- 2 Variables, expressions and statements -- 3 Functions -- 4 Case study: interface design -- 5 Conditionals and recursion -- 6 Fruitful functions -- 7 Iteration -- 8 Strings -- 9 Case study: word play -- 10 Lists -- 11 Dictionaries -- 12 Tuples -- 13 Case study: data structure selection -- 14 Files -- 15 Classes and objects -- 16 Classes and functions -- 17 Classes and methods -- 18 Inheritance -- 19 The Goodies -- A Debugging -- B Analysis of Algorithms 
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