Think Python How to Think Like a Computer Scientist

Think Python is the manuscript of Python for Software Design, published by Cambridge University Press.

In support of Free Books, Cambridge has agreed to keep this manuscript available under the GNU Free Documentation License. Readers are free to copy and distribute the text; they are also free to modify it, which allows them to adapt the book to different needs, and to help develop new material.

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• Preface
• The way of the program
• Variables, expressions and statements
• Functions
• Case study: interface design
• Conditionals and recursion
• Fruitful functions
• Iteration
• Strings
• Case study: word play
• Lists
• Dictionaries
• Tuples
• Case study: data structure selection
• Files
• Classes and objects
• Classes and functions
• Classes and methods
• Inheritance
• Case study: Tkinter
• Debugging
  

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Example programs and solutions to some problems (links to specific examples are in the book).

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