Introduction to Computer Science Using Python

610 Pages·2012·57.73 MB·English

by  Charles Dierbach

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Introduction to Computer
Science Using Python:
A Computational
Problem-Solving Focus
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Introduction to Computer
Science Using Python:
A Computational
Problem-Solving Focus
Charles Dierbach
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Dierbach, Charles, 1953–
Introduction to Computer Science Using Python: A Computational Problem-Solving Focus/Charles Dierbach.
p. cm.
Includes index.
ISBN 978-0-470-55515-6 (pbk.)
1. Python (Computer program language) I. Title.
QA76.73.P98D547 2012
005.13'3—dc23
2012027172
Printed in the United States of America
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DEDICATION
To my wife Chen Jin, and our sons Jayden and Bryson.
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Brief Contents
Preface xxi
Acknowledgments xxv
About the Author xxvii
1 Introduction 1
2 Data and Expressions 38
3 Control Structures 79
4 Lists 125
5 Functions 168
6 Objects and Their Use 206
7 Modular Design 247
8 Text Files 289
9 Dictionaries and Sets 337
10 Object-Oriented Programming 383
11 Recursion 460
12 Computing and Its Developments 491
Appendix 525
Index 569
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