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Python for Beginners

Learn to program with Python 3, one small program at a time

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  • Beginner
  • 28 pages
  • 138 KB
  • PDF, English
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About this ebook

What you will learn

A gentle first course in programming with Python 3. You will install Python and IDLE, then learn variables, numbers, strings, decisions, loops, lists, dictionaries, functions, modules, files and error handling by writing fifteen small working programs, from a simple interest calculator to a guessing game and a class marks report.

Who it is for

School and college students starting programming.

Contents

  1. Getting ready: Python 3 and IDLE
  2. Talking to the user: print, input and variables
  3. Numbers and arithmetic
  4. Working with strings
  5. Making decisions with if, elif and else
  6. Repeating with while and for loops
  7. Lists, tuples and dictionaries
  8. Writing your own functions
  9. Modules: math and random
  10. Files, errors and try/except
  11. Project: a class marks report

At the end of the book

  • Practice questionsTo check what you have learnt, with the answers after them.
  • GlossaryThe key words of the book, each explained in one sentence.
  • Easy EnglishShort sentences and everyday words, with each new word explained the first time.

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