Exploring Python

Book Description
Exploring Python takes an active learning approach which engages the student as an equal partner in the process of learning the fun, educational, and powerful programming language. This approach instills habits that students will carry with them throughout their programming career and helps them retain and use the information they have learned.

Tim Budd is one of the best-known authors in Computer Science and has a reputation for producing writing texts along the leading edge of the discipline. Exploring Python provides an accessible and reliable introduction into programming with the Python language.

Table of contents
Part I. Basic Features of Python
1. Exploring Python
2. Creating Python Programs
3. Defining Functions
4. Strings, Lists, Tuples, and Sets
5. Dictionaries
6. Files
7. Classes
8. Functional Programming
9. Object-Oriented Programming
10. Scopes, Name Spaces, and Modules
11. Advanced Features

Part II.
12. GUI Programming with Tkinter
13. Web-Based Applications
14. A Simple Blog
15. A Wiki Web
16. A Sudoku Solver
17. Using XML to Read an iTunes Database
18. Data Structures

Appendices
A. Brief Python Reference
B. How to Learn a Second (or Third) Programming Language

Book Details
Paperback: 288 pages
Publisher: McGraw-Hill (February, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9780073523378
ISBN-13: 978-0073523378
File Size: 2.3 MiB
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