Non-Programmer's Tutorial for Python 3. Authors Contributors to this book Front matter Initial remarks Intro Installing and using Python – where to get help Hello, World The famous first program – screen output – variables – numbers and calculations Who Goes There? Interactive input – strings Count to 10 while loops Decisions if statements Debugging Finding out what goes wrong Defining Functions Structuring programs with the use of functions Advanced Functions Example (Almost) mind-blowing example of how programmers can think Lists Variables containing more than one value For Loops A second kind of loop Boolean Expressions Computer logic – True and False – and and or – not Dictionaries Variables containing key/value pairs Using Modules Extensions to the standard set of functionality More on Lists Using elements or parts of lists Revenge of the Strings More advanced text manipulations File IO Reading from files and writing to files Dealing with the imperfect How to handle errors Recursion Recursive Functions Intro to Object Oriented Programming in Python 3 The End.
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