Python by Example: Learning to Program in 150 Challenges

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Language

Python 3

Reading time

Approximately 19 days

What you will learn

Programming Basics and Python Syntax
Algorithm and Data Structure

Author

Nichola Lacey

Published

5 years, 4 months ago

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Python is today's fastest growing programming language. This engaging and refreshingly different guide breaks down the skills into clear step-by-step chunks and explains the theory using brief easy-to-understand language. Rather than bamboozling readers with pages of mind-numbing technical jargon, this book includes 150 practical challenges, putting the power in the reader's hands. Through creating programs to solve these challenges the reader will quickly progress from mastering the basics to confidently using subroutines, a graphical user interface, and linking to external text, csv and SQL files. This book is perfect for anyone who wants to learn how to program with Python. In particular, students starting out in computer science and teachers who want to improve their confidence in Python will find here a set of ready-made challenges for classroom use.

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Professor at University of Cambridge, one of the best universities in the world
Works/Worked at BBC

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