| Preface |
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| Acknowledgments |
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| About this Book |
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| About the author |
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Lesson 1 Why should you learn how to program? |
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Lesson 2 Basic principles of learning a programming language |
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Unit 1 VARIABLES, TYPES, EXPRESSIONS, AND STATEMENTS |
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Lesson 3 Introducing Python: a programming language |
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Lesson 4 Variables and expressions: giving names and values to things |
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Lesson 5 Object types and statements of code |
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Lesson 6 Capstone project: your first Python program---convert hours to minutes |
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Unit 2 STRINGS, TUPLES, AND INTERACTING WITH THE USER |
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Lesson 7 Introducing string objects: sequences of characters |
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Lesson 8 Advanced string operations |
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Lesson 9 Simple error messages |
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Lesson 10 Tuple objects: sequences of any kind of object |
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Lesson 11 Interacting with the user |
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Lesson 12 Capstone project: name mashup |
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Unit 3 MAKING DECISIONS IN YOUR PROGRAMS |
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Lesson 13 Introducing decisions in programs |
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Lesson 14 Making more-complicated decisions |
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Lesson 15 Capstone project: choose your own adventure |
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Lesson 16 Repeating tasks with loops |
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Lesson 17 Customizing loops |
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Lesson 18 Repeating tasks while conditions hold |
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Lesson 19 Capstone project: Scrabble, Art Edition |
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Unit 5 ORGANIZING YOUR CODE INTO REUSABLE BLOCKS |
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Lesson 20 Building programs to last |
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Lesson 21 Achieving modularity and abstraction with functions |
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Lesson 22 Advanced operations with functions |
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Lesson 23 Capstone project: analyze your friends |
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Unit 6 WORKING WITH MUTABLE DATATYPES |
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Lesson 24 Mutable and immutable objects |
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Lesson 25 Working with lists |
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Lesson 26 Advanced operations with lists |
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Lesson 27 Dictionaries as maps between objects |
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Lesson 28 Aliasing and copying lists and dictionaries |
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Lesson 29 Capstone project: document similarity |
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Unit 7 MAKING YOUR OWN OBJECT TYPES BY USING OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING |
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Lesson 30 Making your own object types |
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Lesson 31 Creating a class for an object type |
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Lesson 32 Working with your own object types |
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Lesson 33 Customizing classes |
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Lesson 34 Capstone project: card game |
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Unit 8 USING LIBRARIES TO ENHANCE YOUR PROGRAMS |
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Lesson 35 Useful libraries |
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Lesson 36 Testing and debugging your programs |
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Lesson 37 A library for graphical user interfaces |
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Lesson 38 Capstone project: game of tag |
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| Appendix A Answers to lesson exercises |
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| Appendix B Python cheat sheet |
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| Appendix C Interesting Python libraries |
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| Index |
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