A Concise Introduction to Programming in Python

Content: 1. Turtle Graphics 1.1 Getting Started 1.2 Calling Functions 1.3 Writing Functions 1.4 Repetition 1.5 Checking Conditions 1.6 Conditional Repetition 1.7 More Complex Choices 1.8 Randomness 1.9 Thinking with Functions 2. Numeric Data 2.1 Variables and Assignment 2.2 Calculations 2.3 Accumulation Loops 2.4 Accumulator Options Project: Simulation 2.5 Numbers in Memory 2.6 Repeated Input 2.7 Lists of Numbers 2.8 List Indexing and Slicing 2.9 List Accumulation 2.10 Searching a List 2.11 Recursion 3. Text 3.1 Strings 3.2 String Accumulation 3.3 Text in Memory 3.4 String Processing How-To: Output Formatting 3.5 Lists of Strings 3.6 Reading Text Files Project: Word-Guessing Game Project: Flash Cards How-To: Reading Csv Files 3.7 Handling Exceptions How-To: Writing Text Files 3.8 Dictionaries Project: Eliza Project: Reading DNA Frames 4. Images 4.1 Creating Images 4.2 Color Transformations Project: Gamma Correction Project: Color Quantization 4.3 Size Transformations 4.4 Geometric Transformations 4.5 Combining Images Project: Image Filters 5. Objects and Classes 5.1 Using Turtle Objects 5.2 Writing Classes 5.3 Composition 5.4 Importing Classes 5.5 Inheritance 5.6 Graphical User Interfaces