Python for Everybody - Interactive

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Table of Contents

• 1. Why Program?
  • 1.1. Why should you learn to write programs?
  • 1.2. Creativity and motivation
  • 1.3. Computer hardware architecture
  • 1.4. Understanding programming
  • 1.5. Words and sentences in Python
  • 1.6. Conversing with Python
  • 1.7. Terminology: Interpreter and compiler
  • 1.8. Writing a program
  • 1.9. What is a program?
  • 1.10. The building blocks of programs
  • 1.11. What could possibly go wrong?
  • 1.12. Debugging
  • 1.13. The learning journey
  • 1.14. Glossary
  • 1.15. Exercises
• 2. Variables, Expressions, and Statements
  • 2.1. Values and types
  • 2.2. Variables
  • 2.3. Variable names and keywords
  • 2.4. Statements
  • 2.5. Operators and operands
  • 2.6. Expressions
  • 2.7. Order of operations
  • 2.8. Modulus operator
  • 2.9. String operations
  • 2.10. Asking the user for input
  • 2.11. Comments
  • 2.12. Choosing mnemonic variable names
  • 2.13. Debugging
  • 2.14. Glossary
  • 2.15. Mulitple Choice Questions
  • 2.16. Mixed-up Code Questions
  • 2.17. Write Code Questions
• 3. Conditional Execution
  • 3.1. Boolean expressions
  • 3.2. Logical operators
  • 3.3. Conditional execution
  • 3.4. Alternative execution
  • 3.5. Chained conditionals
  • 3.6. Nested conditionals
  • 3.7. Catching exceptions using try and except
  • 3.8. Short-circuit evaluation of logical expressions
  • 3.9. Debugging
  • 3.10. Glossary
  • 3.11. Multiple Choice Questions
  • 3.12. Mixed-up Code Questions
  • 3.13. Write Code Questions
• 4. Functions
  • 4.1. Function calls
  • 4.2. Built-in functions
  • 4.3. Type conversion functions
  • 4.4. Math functions
  • 4.5. Random numbers
  • 4.6. Adding new functions
  • 4.7. Definitions and uses
  • 4.8. Flow of execution
  • 4.9. Parameters and arguments
  • 4.10. Fruitful functions and void functions
  • 4.11. Why functions?
  • 4.12. Debugging
  • 4.13. Glossary
  • 4.14. Multiple Choice Questions
  • 4.15. Mixed-up Code Questions
  • 4.16. Write Code Questions
  • 4.17. POGIL Activity - Functions, Conditionals, and Strings
    • 4.17.1. Functions
    • 4.17.2. Conditionals and Testing
    • 4.17.3. Logical Operators
    • 4.17.4. Strings and Slices
• 5. Loops and Iterations
  • 5.1. Updating variables
  • 5.2. The while statement
  • 5.3. Infinite loops
  • 5.4. Finishing iterations with continue
  • 5.5. Definite loops using for
  • 5.6. Loop patterns
    • 5.6.1. Counting and summing loops
    • 5.6.2. Maximum and minimum loops
  • 5.7. Debugging
  • 5.8. Glossary
  • 5.9. Multiple Choice Questions
  • 5.10. Mixed-up code Questions
  • 5.11. Write Code Questions
• 6. Strings
  • 6.1. A string is a sequence
  • 6.2. Getting the length of a string using len
  • 6.3. Traversal through a string with a loop
  • 6.4. String slices
  • 6.5. Strings are immutable
  • 6.6. Looping and counting
  • 6.7. The in operator
  • 6.8. String comparison
  • 6.9. String methods
  • 6.10. Parsing strings
  • 6.11. Format operator
  • 6.12. Debugging
  • 6.13. Glossary
  • 6.14. Multiple Choice Questions
  • 6.15. Mixed-up Code Questions
  • 6.16. Write Code Questions
• 7. Files
  • 7.1. Persistence
  • 7.2. Opening files
  • 7.3. Text files and lines
  • 7.4. Reading files
  • 7.5. Searching through a file
  • 7.6. Letting the user choose the file name
  • 7.7. Using try, except, and open
  • 7.8. Writing files
  • 7.9. Debugging
  • 7.10. Glossary
  • 7.11. Multiple Choice Questions
  • 7.12. Mixed-up Code Questions
  • 7.13. Write Code Questions
• 8. Lists
  • 8.1. A list is a sequence
  • 8.2. Lists are mutable
  • 8.3. Traversing a list
  • 8.4. List operations
  • 8.5. List slices
  • 8.6. List methods
  • 8.7. Deleting elements
  • 8.8. Lists and functions
  • 8.9. Lists and strings
  • 8.10. Parsing lines
  • 8.11. Objects and values
  • 8.12. Aliasing
  • 8.13. List arguments
  • 8.14. Debugging
  • 8.15. Glossary
  • 8.16. Multiple Choice Questions
  • 8.17. Mixed-up Code Questions
  • 8.18. Write Code Questions
• 9. Dictionaries
  • 9.1. Dictionaries
  • 9.2. Dictionary as a Set of Counters
  • 9.3. Dictionaries and Files
  • 9.4. Looping and Dictionaries
  • 9.5. Advanced Text Parsing
  • 9.6. Debugging
  • 9.7. Glossary
  • 9.8. Multiple Choice Questions
  • 9.9. Mixed-Up Code Questions
  • 9.10. Write Code Questions
• 10. Tuples
  • 10.1. Tuples are Immutable
  • 10.2. Comparing Tuples
  • 10.3. Tuple Assignment
  • 10.4. Dictionaries and Tuples
  • 10.5. Multiple Assignment with Dictionaries
  • 10.6. The Most Common Words
  • 10.7. Using Tuples as Keys in Dictionaries
  • 10.8. Sequences: Strings, Lists, and Tuples - Oh My!
  • 10.9. Debugging
  • 10.10. Glossary
  • 10.11. Multiple Choice Questions
  • 10.12. Mixed-Up Code Questions
  • 10.13. Write Code Questions
• 11. Regular Expressions
  • 11.1. Regular Expressions
  • 11.2. Character Matching in Regular Expressions
  • 11.3. Extracting Data Using Regular Expressions
  • 11.4. Combining Searching and Extracting
  • 11.5. Escape Character
  • 11.6. Summary
  • 11.7. Bonus section for Unix / Linux users
  • 11.8. Debugging
  • 11.9. Glossary
  • 11.10. Multiple Choice Questions
  • 11.11. Mixed-Up Code Questions
  • 11.12. Write Code Questions
• 12. Network Programming
  • 12.1. Networked programs
  • 12.2. HyperText Transfer Protocol - HTTP
  • 12.3. The world’s simplest web browser
  • 12.4. Retrieving an image over HTTP
  • 12.5. Retrieving web pages with urllib
  • 12.6. Reading binary files using urllib
  • 12.7. Parsing HTML and scraping the web
  • 12.8. Parsing HTML using regular expressions
  • 12.9. Parsing HTML using BeautifulSoup
  • 12.10. Bonus section for Unix / Linux users
  • 12.11. Glossary
  • 12.12. Multiple Choice Questions
  • 12.13. Mixed-Up Code Exercises
  • 12.14. Write Code Exercises
• 13. Using Web Services
  • 13.1. eXtensible Markup Language - XML
  • 13.2. Parsing XML
  • 13.3. Looping through nodes
  • 13.4. JavaScript Object Notation - JSON
  • 13.5. Parsing JSON
  • 13.6. Application Programming Interfaces
  • 13.7. Security and API usage
  • 13.8. Glossary
  • 13.9. Multiple Choice Questions
  • 13.10. Mixed-Up Code Questions
  • 13.11. Write Code Questions - INCOMPLETE
  • 13.12. Application 1: Google geocoding web service
  • 13.13. Application 2: Twitter
• 14. Object-Oriented Programming
  • 14.1. Managing larger programs
  • 14.2. Getting started
  • 14.3. Using objects
  • 14.4. Starting with programs
  • 14.5. Subdividing a problem
  • 14.6. Our first Python object
  • 14.7. Classes as types
  • 14.8. Object lifecycle
  • 14.9. Multiple instances
  • 14.10. Inheritance
  • 14.11. Summary
  • 14.12. Glossary
  • 14.13. Multiple Choice Questions
  • 14.14. Mixed-Up Code Exercises
  • 14.15. Write Code Exercises
  • 14.16. POGIL Activity - Classes, constructors, attributes, and methods
    • 14.16.1. A Book Class
    • 14.16.2. Create More Book Objects
    • 14.16.3. Add Methods to Classes
• 15. Databases
  • 15.1. What is a database?
  • 15.2. Database concepts
  • 15.3. Database Browser for SQLite
  • 15.4. Creating a database table
  • 15.5. Structured Query Language summary
  • 15.6. Spidering Twitter using a database
  • 15.7. Basic data modeling
  • 15.8. Programming with multiple tables
    • 15.8.1. Constraints in database tables
    • 15.8.2. Retrieve and/or insert a record
    • 15.8.3. Storing the friend relationship
  • 15.9. Three kinds of keys
  • 15.10. Using JOIN to retrieve data
  • 15.11. Summary
  • 15.12. Debugging
  • 15.13. Glossary
  • 15.14. Multiple Choice Questions
  • 15.15. Mixed-Up Code Questions
  • 15.16. Write Code Questions - INCOMPLETE
• 16. Data Visualization
  • 16.1. Visualizing data
  • 16.2. Building a Google map from geocoded data
  • 16.3. Visualizing networks and interconnections
  • 16.4. Visualizing mail data
  • 16.5. Multiple Choice Questions

Acknowledgements

Acknowledgements, Contributors, License, and Preface

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