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HTTLCS Outline

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How to Think Like a Computer Scientist

Learning with Python

 

by Allen B. Downey, Jeffrey Elkner and Chris Meyers

Printed copies now available from Green Tea Press.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Preface

Contributor List

Chapter 1: The way of the program


Chapter 2: Variables, expressions, and statements

 

1. Values and types

2. Variables

3. Variable names and keywords

4. Statements

5. Evaluating expressions

6. Operators and operands

7. Order of operations

8. Operations on strings

9. Input

10. Composition

11. Comments

12. Glossary

13. Exercises


Chapter 3: Functions

 

1. Function calls

2. Type conversion

3. Type coercion

4. Math functions

5. Composition

6. Adding new functions

7. Definitions and use

8. Flow of execution

9. Parameters and arguments

10. Variables and parameters are local

11. Stack diagrams

12. Functions with results

13. Glossary

14. Exercises


Chapter 4: Conditionals and recursion

1. The modulus operator

2. Boolean values and expressions

3. Logical operators

4. Conditional execution

5. Alternative execution

6. Chained conditionals

7. Nested conditionals

8. The return statement

9. Recursion

10. Stack diagrams for recursive functions

11. Infinite recursion

12. Tail recursion

13. Keyboard input

14. Glossary

15. Exercises


Chapter 5: Fruitful functions


Chapter 6: Iteration

1. Multiple assignment

2. The while statement

3. Tables

4. Two-dimensional tables

5. Encapsulation and generalization

6. More encapsulation

7. Local variables

8. More generalization

9. Functions

10. Glossary

11. Exercises


Chapter 7: Strings

1. A compound data type

2. Length

3. Traversal and the for loop

4. String slices

5. String comparison

6. Strings are immutable

7. The in operator

8. A find function

9. Looping and counting

10. Optional paramters

11. The string module

12. Character classification

13. Glossary

14. Exercises


Chapter 8: Lists

Chapter 9: Tuples


Chapter 10: Dictionaries

1. Dictionary operations

2. Dictionary methods

3. Aliasing and copying

4. Sparse matrices

5. Hints

6. Long integers

7. Counting letters

8. Glossary

9. Exercises


Chapter 11: Files and exceptions

Chapter 12: Classes and objects

Chapter 13: Classes and functions


Chapter 14: Methods

1. Object-oriented features

2. print_time

3. Another example

4. A more complicated example

5. Optional arguments

6. The initialization method

7. Points revisited

8. Operator overloading

9. Polymorphism

10. Glossary

11. Exercises


Chapter 15: Sets of objects

Chapter 16: Inheritance

Chapter 17: Linked Lists

Chapter 18: Stacks

Chapter 19: Queues and priority queues

Chapter 20: Trees

DocTest Exercises

TkInter Exercises

Gasp Exercises

Appendix A: Debugging

Appendix B: Creating a new datatype

Appendix C: Doctests and test driven development

Appendix D: Complete Python listings

Appendix E: Recommendations for further reading

GNU Free Document License

Index

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