[Book] Think Python How to Think Like a Computer Scientist 2nd Edition, Version 2.4.0

The way of the program

1. What is a program?

2. Running Python

3. The first program

4. Arithmetic operators

5. Values and types

6. Formal and natural languages

7. Debugging

8. Glossary

9. Exercises

Variables, expressions and statements

1. Assignment statements

2. Variable names

3. Expressions and statements

4. Script mode

5. Order of operations

6. String operations

7. Comments

8. Debugging

9. Glossary

10. Exercises

Functions

1. Function calls

2. Math functions

3. Composition

4. Adding new functions

5. Definitions and uses

6. Flow of execution

7. Parameters and arguments

8. Variables and parameters are local

9. Stack diagrams

10. Fruitful functions and void functions

11. Why functions?

12. Debugging

13. Glossary

14. Exercises

Case study: interface design

1. The turtle module

2. Simple repetition

3. Exercises

4. Encapsulation

5. Generalization

6. Interface design

7. Refactoring

8. A development plan

9. docstring

10. Debugging

11. Glossary

12. Exercises

Conditionals and recursion

1. Floor division and modulus

2. Boolean expressions

3. Logical operators

4. Conditional execution

5. Alternative execution

6. Chained conditionals

7. Nested conditionals

8. Recursion

9. Stack diagrams for recursive functions

10. Infinite recursion

11. Keyboard input

12. Debugging

13. Glossary

14. Exercises

Fruitful functions

1. Return values

2. Incremental development

3. Composition

4. Boolean functions

5. More recursion

6. Leap of faith

7. One more example

8. Checking types

9. Debugging

10. Glossary

11. Exercises

Iteration

1. Reassignment

2. Updating variables

3. The while statement

4. break

5. Square roots

6. Algorithms

7. Debugging

8. Glossary

9. Exercises

Strings

1. A string is a sequence

2. len

3. Traversal with a for loop

4. String slices

5. Strings are immutable

6. Searching

7. Looping and counting

8. String methods

9. The in operator

10. String comparison

11. Debugging

12. Glossary

13. Exercises

Case study: word play

1. Reading word lists

2. Exercises

3. Search

4. Looping with indices

5. Debugging

6. Glossary

7. Exercises

Lists

1. A list is a sequence

2. Lists are mutable

3. Traversing a list

4. List operations

5. List slices

6. List methods

7. Map, filter and reduce

8. Deleting elements

9. Lists and strings

10. Objects and values

11. Aliasing

12. List arguments

13. Debugging

14. Glossary

15. Exercises

Dictionaries

1. A dictionary is a mapping

2. Dictionary as a collection of counters

3. Looping and dictionaries

4. Reverse lookup

5. Dictionaries and lists

6. Memos

7. Global variables

8. Debugging

9. Glossary

10. Exercises

Tuples

1. Tuples are immutable

2. Tuple assignment

3. Tuples as return values

4. Variable-length argument tuples

5. Lists and tuples

6. Dictionaries and tuples

7. Sequences of sequences

8. Debugging

9. Glossary

10. Exercises

Case study: data structure selection

1. Word frequency analysis

2. Random numbers

3. Word histogram

4. Most common words

5. Optional parameters

6. Dictionary subtraction

7. Random words

8. Markov analysis

9. Data structures

10. Debugging

11. Glossary

12. Exercises

Files

1. Persistence

2. Reading and writing

3. Format operator

4. Filenames and paths

5. Catching exceptions

6. Databases

7. Pickling

8. Pipes

9. Writing modules

10. Debugging

11. Glossary

12. Exercises

Classes and objects

1. Programmer-defined types

2. Attributes

3. Rectangles

4. Instances as return values

5. Objects are mutable

6. Copying

7. Debugging

8. Glossary

9. Exercises

Classes and functions

Classes and methods

Inheritance

The Goodies

Debugging

Analysis of Algorithms