Fundamentals of Python Programming

The Context of Software Development
	Software
	Development Tools
	Learning Programming with Python
	Writing a Python Program
	The Python Interactive Shell
	A Longer Python program
	Summary
	Exercises
Values and Variables
	Integer and String Values
	Variables and Assignment
	Identifiers
	Floating-point Numbers
	Control Codes within Strings
	User Input
	The eval Function
	Controlling the print Function
	String Formatting
	Summary
	Exercises
Expressions and Arithmetic
	Expressions
	Mixed Type Expressions
	Operator Precedence and Associativity
	Comments
	Errors
		Syntax Errors
		Run-time Exceptions
		Logic Errors
	Arithmetic Examples
	More Arithmetic Operators
	Algorithms
	Summary
	Exercises
Conditional Execution
	Boolean Expressions
	Boolean Expressions
	The Simple if Statement
	The if/else Statement
	Compound Boolean Expressions
	The pass Statement
	Floating-point Equality
	Nested Conditionals
	Multi-way Decision Statements
	Conditional Expressions
	Errors in Conditional Statements
	Summary
	Exercises
Iteration
	The while Statement
	Definite Loops vs. Indefinite Loops
	The for Statement
	Nested Loops
	Abnormal Loop Termination
		The break statement
		The continue Statement
	while/else and for/else
	Infinite Loops
	Iteration Examples
		Computing Square Root
		Drawing a Tree
		Printing Prime Numbers
		Insisting on the Proper Input
	Summary
	Exercises
Using Functions
	Introduction to Using Functions
	Standard Mathematical Functions
	time Functions
	Random Numbers
	Importing Issues
	Summary
	Exercises
Writing Functions
	Function Basics
	Main Function
	Parameter Passing
	Function Examples
		Better Organized Prime Generator
		Command Interpreter
		Restricted Input
		Better Die Rolling Simulator
		Tree Drawing Function
		Floating-point Equality
	Custom Functions vs. Standard Functions
	Summary
	Exercises
More on Functions
	Global Variables
	Default Parameters
	Introduction to Recursion
	Making Functions Reusable
	Documenting Functions and Modules
	Functions as Data
	Lambda Expressions
	Generators
	Local Function Definitions
	Summary
	Exercises
Objects
	Using Objects
	String Objects
	File Objects
	Fraction Objects
	Turtle Graphics
	Graphics with tkinter Objects
	Other Standard Python Objects
	Object Mutability and Aliasing
	Garbage Collection
	Summary
	Exercises
Lists
	Using Lists
	List Traversal
	Building Lists
	List Membership
	List Assignment and Equivalence
	List Bounds
	Slicing
	List Element Removal
	Lists and Functions
	List Methods
	Prime Generation with a List
	Command-line Arguments
	List Comprehensions
	Summary of List Creation Techniques
	Lists vs. Generators
	Summary
	Exercises
Sorting and Searching
	Sorting
	Flexible Sorting
	Faster Sorting
	Search
		Linear Search
		Binary Search
	Recursion Revisited
	List Permutations
	Randomly Permuting a List
	Reversing a List
	Summary
	Exercises
Tuples, Dictionaries, and Sets
	Tuples
	Arbitrary Argument Lists
	Dictionaries
	Using Dictionaries
	Counting with Dictionaries
	Grouping with Dictionaries
	Implementing Mathematical Graphs
	Keyword Arguments
	Sets
	Set Quantification with all and any
	Summary
	Exercises
Handling Exceptions
	Motivation
	Common Standard Exceptions
	Handling Exceptions
	Handling Multiple Exceptions
	The Catch-all Handler
	Catching Exception Objects
	The try Statement\'s Optional else Block
	finally block
	Exception Handling Scope
	Raising Exceptions
	Using Exceptions
	Summary
	Exercises
Custom Types
	Circle Objects
	Restricting Access to Members
	Bank Account Objects
	Stopwatch Objects
	Automated Testing
	Class Inheritance
	Custom Exceptions
	Summary
	Exercises
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