The Coder's Apprentice
Pieter Spronck
Computers & Technology
The Coder's Apprentice
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The Coder's Apprentice is a Python 3 course book, written by Pieter Spronck, aimed at students and teenagers who are completely new to programming. This book presumes no previous programming experience and contains numerous exercises.

Language
English
ISBN
Unknown
Preface
Introduction
How to use this book
Prerequisites and assumptions
Why Python?
Python's limitations as a programming language
What does it mean ``to think like a programmer?''
The art of programming
Start small, grow big
Python 2 or Python 3?
Practice
Using Python
Getting Python
Creating Python programs
Running Python programs
Reference material
Expressions
Displaying results
Data types
Expressions
Style
Variables
Variables and values
Variable names
Debugging variables
Soft typing
Shorthand operators
Comments
Simple Functions
Elements of a function
Some basic functions
Modules
Conditions
Boolean expressions
Conditional statements
Early exits
Iterations
while loop
for loop
Loop control statements
Nested loops
The loop-and-a-half
Being smart about loops
On designing algorithms
Functions
Why create functions?
Creating functions
Scope and lifetime
Managing program complexity
Modules
Anonymous functions
Recursion
What is recursion?
Recursive definitions
Strings
What you already know about strings
Multi-line strings
Escape sequences
Accessing characters of a string
Strings are immutable
string methods
Character encoding
Tuples
Using tuples
Tuples are immutable
Applications of tuples
Lists
List basics
Lists are mutable
Lists and operators
List methods
Aliasing
Nested lists
List casting
List comprehensions
Dictionaries
Basics of dictionaries
Dictionary methods
Keys
Storing complicated values
Lookup speed
Sets
Basics of sets
Set methods
Frozensets
Operating System
Basics of operating systems
Command prompt
File system
os functions
Text Files
Flat text files
Reading text files
Writing text files
Appending to text files
os.path methods
File encoding
Exceptions
Errors and exceptions
Exception handling
File handling exceptions
Raising exceptions
Binary Files
Opening and closing binary files
Reading a binary file
Writing a binary file
Positioning the file pointer
Bitwise Operators
Bits and bytes
Manipulating bits
Usefulness of bitwise operations
Object Orientation
The object oriented world
Classes and objects
Methods
Nesting objects
Operator Overloading
The idea behind operator overloading
Comparisons
Calculations
Unary operators
Sequences
Inheritance
Class inheritance
Interfaces
Iterators and Generators
Iterators
Generators
itertools module
Command Line Processing
The command line
Flexible command line processing
Regular Expressions
Regular expressions with Python
Writing regular expressions
Grouping
Replacing
File Formats
Comma-Separated Values (CSV)
Pickling
JavaScript Object Notation (JSON)
HTML and XML
Various Useful Modules
datetime
collections
urllib
glob
statistics
Troubleshooting
Differences with Python 2
pcinput.py
pcmaze.py
Test Text Files
Answers to Exercises
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