A Beginners Guide To Python 3 Programming

Description

This textbook on Python 3 explains concepts such as variables and what they represent, how data is held in memory, how a for loop works and what a string is. It also introduces key concepts such as functions, modules and packages as well as object orientation and functional programming. Each section is prefaced with an introductory chapter, before continuing with how these ideas work in Python. Topics such as generators and coroutines are often misunderstood and these are explained in detail, whilst topics such as Referential Transparency, multiple inheritance and exception handling are presented using examples. A Beginners Guide to Python 3 Programming provides all you need to know about Python, with numerous examples provided throughout including several larger worked case studies illustrating the ideas presented in the previous chapters. Front Matter ....Pages i-xxvii Introduction (John Hunt)....Pages 1-11 Setting Up the Python Environment (John Hunt)....Pages 13-22 A First Python Program (John Hunt)....Pages 23-31 Python Strings (John Hunt)....Pages 33-49 Numbers, Booleans and None (John Hunt)....Pages 51-64 Flow of Control Using If Statements (John Hunt)....Pages 65-73 Iteration/Looping (John Hunt)....Pages 75-85 Number Guessing Game (John Hunt)....Pages 87-97 Recursion (John Hunt)....Pages 99-106 Introduction to Structured Analysis (John Hunt)....Pages 107-116 Functions in Python (John Hunt)....Pages 117-131 Scope and Lifetime of Variables (John Hunt)....Pages 133-138 Implementing a Calculator Using Functions (John Hunt)....Pages 139-148 Introduction to Functional Programming (John Hunt)....Pages 149-155 Higher Order Functions (John Hunt)....Pages 157-166 Curried Functions (John Hunt)....Pages 167-173 Introduction to Object Orientation (John Hunt)....Pages 175-188 Python Classes (John Hunt)....Pages 189-204 Class Side and Static Behaviour (John Hunt)....Pages 205-209 Class Inheritance (John Hunt)....Pages 211-232 Why Bother with Object Orientation? (John Hunt)....Pages 233-239 Operator Overloading (John Hunt)....Pages 241-251 Python Properties (John Hunt)....Pages 253-261 Error and Exception Handling (John Hunt)....Pages 263-280 Python Modules and Packages (John Hunt)....Pages 281-297 Abstract Base Classes (John Hunt)....Pages 299-309 Protocols, Polymorphism and Descriptors (John Hunt)....Pages 311-323 Monkey Patching and Attribute Lookup (John Hunt)....Pages 325-336 Decorators (John Hunt)....Pages 337-351 Iterables, Iterators, Generators and Coroutines (John Hunt)....Pages 353-362 Collections, Tuples and Lists (John Hunt)....Pages 363-378 Sets (John Hunt)....Pages 379-387 Dictionaries (John Hunt)....Pages 389-400 Collection Related Modules (John Hunt)....Pages 401-406 ADTs, Queues and Stacks (John Hunt)....Pages 407-414 Map, Filter and Reduce (John Hunt)....Pages 415-421 TicTacToe Game (John Hunt)....Pages 423-433