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Exploring Python
Exploring Python

Exploring Python, 1st Edition

ISBN10: 0073523372 | ISBN13: 9780073523378
By Timothy Budd
© 2010

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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.

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

About the Author

Timothy Budd

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