Snake Wrangling for Kids: Learning to Program with Python

Preface......Page 9
Not all snakes will squish you......Page 11
A Few Words About Language......Page 12
The Order of Non-venomousConstricting Serpentes…......Page 13
Your first Python program......Page 14
Your Second Python program…the same again?......Page 16
8 multiplied by 3.57 equals…......Page 19
Use of brackets and ``Order of Operations''......Page 21
There's nothing so fickle as a variable......Page 23
Using Variable......Page 25
A Piece of String?......Page 26
Tricks with Strings......Page 28
Not quite a shopping list......Page 29
Tuples and Lists......Page 32
Things to try......Page 33
Turtles, and other slow moving creatures......Page 35
Things to try......Page 41
How to ask a question......Page 43
Do this… or ELSE!!!......Page 44
Do this… or do this… or do this… or ELSE!!!......Page 45
Emptiness......Page 46
What's the difference…?......Page 48
Again and again......Page 51
When is a block not square?......Page 54
While we're talking about looping…......Page 60
Things to try......Page 62
Sort of like recycling…......Page 63
Bits and Pieces......Page 67
Modules......Page 69
Things to try......Page 71
A short chapter about Files......Page 73
Turtles galore......Page 75
Colouring in......Page 79
Filling things......Page 82
Things to try......Page 88
A bit graphic......Page 91
Quick Draw......Page 93
Simple Drawing......Page 95
Drawing Boxes......Page 97
Drawing Arcs......Page 101
Drawing Ovals......Page 102
Drawing Polygons......Page 105
Drawing Images......Page 106
Basic Animation......Page 108
Reacting to events…......Page 109
Where to go from here......Page 113
Python Keywords......Page 115
Built-in Functions......Page 129
A Few Python Modules......Page 139
Answers to ``Things to try''......Page 149