• Title A Practical Introduction to Python Programming
• Author(s) Brian Heinold
• Publisher: BrianHeinold.net; eBook (Creative Commons Licensed)
• License(s): Creative Commons License (CC)
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• Language: English
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Book Description

This book is for anyone who wants to understand Python programming. It is degigned as partly a tutorial and partly a reference of Python.

You'll learn to program in a language that's used in millions of smartphones, tablets, and PCs. You'll code along with the book, writing programs to solve real-world problems as you learn the fundamentals of programming using Python 3. You'll learn about design, algorithms, testing, and debugging, and come away with all the tools you need to produce quality code in Python.

Though this book was designed to be used in an introductory programming course, it is also useful for those with prior programming experience looking to learn Python. If you are one of those people, you should be able to breeze through the first several chapters. You should find Part II to be a concise, but not superficial, treatment on GUI programming. Part III contains information on the features of Python that allow you to accomplish big things with surprisingly little code.

• Brian Heinold is an Associate Professor of Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Mount Saint Mary's University.

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