The Python Workbook: A Brief Introduction with Exercises and Solutions

Preface
	Acknowledgements
Contents
Part I Exercises
1 Introduction to Programming
	1.1 Storing and Manipulating Values
	1.2 Calling Functions
		1.2.1 Reading Input
		1.2.2 Displaying Output
		1.2.3 Importing Additional Functions
	1.3 Comments
	1.4 Formatting Values
	1.5 Working with Strings
	1.6 Exercises
		Exercise 1: Mailing Address
		Exercise 2: Hello
		Exercise 3: Area of a Room
		Exercise 4: Area of a Field
		Exercise 5: Bottle Deposits
		Exercise 6: Tax and Tip
		Exercise 7: Sum of the First n Positive Integers
		Exercise 8: Widgets and Gizmos
		Exercise 9: Compound Interest
		Exercise 10: Arithmetic
		Exercise 11: Fuel Efficiency
		Exercise 12: Distance Between Two Points on Earth
		Exercise 13: Making Change
		Exercise 14: Height Units
		Exercise 15: Distance Units
		Exercise 16: Area and Volume
		Exercise 17: Heat Capacity
		Exercise 18: Volume of a Cylinder
		Exercise 19: Free Fall
		Exercise 20: Ideal Gas Law
		Exercise 21: Area of a Triangle
		Exercise 22: Area of a Triangle (Again)
		Exercise 23: Area of a Regular Polygon
		Exercise 24: Units of Time
		Exercise 25: Units of Time (Again)
		Exercise 26: Current Time
		Exercise 27: When is Easter?
		Exercise 28: Body Mass Index
		Exercise 29: Wind Chill
		Exercise 30: Celsius to Fahrenheit and Kelvin
		Exercise 31: Units of Pressure
		Exercise 32: Sum of the Digits in an Integer
		Exercise 33: Sort 3 Integers
		Exercise 34: Day Old Bread
2 Decision Making
	2.1 If Statements
	2.2 If-Else Statements
	2.3 If-Elif-Else Statements
	2.4 If-Elif Statements
	2.5 Nested If Statements
	2.6 Boolean Logic
	2.7 Exercises
		Exercise 35: Even or Odd?
		Exercise 36: Dog Years
		Exercise 37: Vowel or Consonant
		Exercise 38: Name That Shape
		Exercise 39: Month Name to Number of Days
		Exercise 40: Sound Levels
		Exercise 41: Classifying Triangles
		Exercise 42: Note to Frequency
		Exercise 43: Frequency to Note
		Exercise 44: Faces on Money
		Exercise 45: Date to Holiday Name
		Exercise 46: What Color Is That Square?
		Exercise 47: Season from Month and Day
		Exercise 48: Birth Date to Astrological Sign
		Exercise 49: Chinese Zodiac
		Exercise 50: Richter Scale
		Exercise 51: Roots of a Quadratic Function
		Exercise 52: Letter Grade to Grade Points
		Exercise 53: Grade Points to Letter Grade
		Exercise 54: Assessing Employees
		Exercise 55: Wavelengths of Visible Light
		Exercise 56: Frequency to Name
		Exercise 57: Cell Phone Bill
		Exercise 58: Is It a Leap Year?
		Exercise 59: Next Day
		Exercise 60: What Day of the Week Is January 1?
		Exercise 61: Is a License Plate Valid?
		Exercise 62: Roulette Payouts
3 Repetition
	3.1 While Loops
	3.2 For Loops
	3.3 Nested Loops
	3.4 Exercises
		Exercise 63: Average
		Exercise 64: Discount Table
		Exercise 65: Temperature Conversion Table
		Exercise 66: No More Pennies
		Exercise 67: Compute the Perimeter of a Polygon
		Exercise 68: Compute a Grade Point Average
		Exercise 69: Admission Price
		Exercise 70: Parity Bits
		Exercise 71: Approximate π
		Exercise 72: Fizz-Buzz
		Exercise 73: Caesar Cipher
		Exercise 74: Square Root
		Exercise 75: Is a String a Palindrome?
		Exercise 76: Multiple Word Palindromes
		Exercise 77: Multiplication Table
		Exercise 78: The Collatz Conjecture
		Exercise 79: Greatest Common Divisor
		Exercise 80: Prime Factors
		Exercise 81: Binary to Decimal
		Exercise 82: Decimal to Binary
		Exercise 83: Maximum Integer
		Exercise 84: Coin Flip Simulation
4 Functions
	4.1 Functions with Parameters
	4.2 Variables in Functions
	4.3 Return Values
	4.4 Importing Functions into Other Programs
	4.5 Exercises
		Exercise 85: Compute the Hypotenuse
		Exercise 86: Taxi Fare
		Exercise 87: Shipping Calculator
		Exercise 88: Median of Three Values
		Exercise 89: Convert an Integer to Its Ordinal Number
		Exercise 90: The Twelve Days of Christmas
		Exercise 91: Gregorian Date to Ordinal Date
		Exercise 92: Ordinal Date to Gregorian Date
		Exercise 93: Center a String in the Terminal Window
		Exercise 94: Is It a Valid Triangle?
		Exercise 95: Capitalize It
		Exercise 96: Does a String Represent an Integer?
		Exercise 97: Operator Precedence
		Exercise 98: Is a Number Prime?
		Exercise 99: Next Prime
		Exercise 100: Random Password
		Exercise 101: Random License Plate
		Exercise 102: Check a Password
		Exercise 103: Random Good Password
		Exercise 104: Hexadecimal and Decimal Digits
		Exercise 105: Arbitrary Base Conversions
		Exercise 106: Days in a Month
		Exercise 107: Reduce a Fraction to Lowest Terms
		Exercise 108: Reduce Measures
		Exercise 109: Magic Dates
5 Lists
	5.1 Accessing Individual Elements
	5.2 Loops and Lists
	5.3 Additional List Operations
		5.3.1 Adding Elements to a List
		5.3.2 Removing Elements from a List
		5.3.3 Rearranging the Elements in a List
		5.3.4 Searching a List
	5.4 Lists as Return Values and Arguments
	5.5 Exercises
		Exercise 110: Sorted Order
		Exercise 111: Reverse Order
		Exercise 112: Remove Outliers
		Exercise 113: Avoiding Duplicates
		Exercise 114: Negatives, Zeros and Positives
		Exercise 115: List of Proper Divisors
		Exercise 116: Perfect Numbers
		Exercise 117: Only the Words
		Exercise 118: Word by Word Palindromes
		Exercise 119: Below and Above Average
		Exercise 120: Formatting a List
		Exercise 121: Random Lottery Numbers
		Exercise 122: Pig Latin
		Exercise 123: Pig Latin Improved
		Exercise 124: Line of Best Fit
		Exercise 125: Shuffling a Deck of Cards
		Exercise 126: Dealing Hands of Cards
		Exercise 127: Is a List already in Sorted Order?
		Exercise 128: Count the Elements
		Exercise 129: Tokenizing a String
		Exercise 130: Unary and Binary Operators
		Exercise 131: Infix to Postfix
		Exercise 132: Evaluate Postfix
		Exercise 133: Does a List Contain a Sublist?
		Exercise 134: Generate All Sublists of a List
		Exercise 135: The Sieve of Eratosthenes
6 Dictionaries
	6.1 Accessing, Modifying and Adding Values
	6.2 Removing a Key-Value Pair
	6.3 Additional Dictionary Operations
	6.4 Loops and Dictionaries
	6.5 Dictionaries as Arguments and Return Values
	6.6 Exercises
		Exercise 136: Reverse Lookup
		Exercise 137: Two Dice Simulation
		Exercise 138: Text Messaging
		Exercise 139: Morse Code
		Exercise 140: Postal Codes
		Exercise 141: Write out Numbers in English
		Exercise 142: Unique Characters
		Exercise 143: Anagrams
		Exercise 144: Anagrams Again
		Exercise 145: Scrabble™ Score
		Exercise 146: Create a Bingo Card
		Exercise 147: Checking for a Winning Card
		Exercise 148: Play Bingo
7 Files and Exceptions
	7.1 Opening a File
	7.2 Reading Input from a File
	7.3 End of Line Characters
	7.4 Writing Output to a File
	7.5 Command Line Arguments
	7.6 Exceptions
	7.7 Exercises
		Exercise 149: Display the Head of a File
		Exercise 150: Display the Tail of a File
		Exercise 151: Concatenate Multiple Files
		Exercise 152: Number the Lines in a File
		Exercise 153: Find the Longest Word in a File
		Exercise 154: Letter Frequencies
		Exercise 155: Words that Occur Most
		Exercise 156: Sum a Collection of Numbers
		Exercise 157: Both Letter Grades and Grade Points
		Exercise 158: Remove Comments
		Exercise 159: Two Word Random Password
		Exercise 160: Weird Words
		Exercise 161: What's that Element Again?
		Exercise 162: A Book with No E...
		Exercise 163: Names that Reached Number One
		Exercise 164: Gender Neutral Names
		Exercise 165: Most Births in a given Time Period
		Exercise 166: Distinct Names
		Exercise 167: Spell Checker
		Exercise 168: Repeated Words
		Exercise 169: Redacting Text in a File
		Exercise 170: Missing Comments
		Exercise 171: Consistent Line Lengths
		Exercise 172: Words with Six Vowels in Order
8 Recursion
	8.1 Summing Integers
	8.2 Fibonacci Numbers
	8.3 Counting Characters
	8.4 Exercises
		Exercise 173: Total the Values
		Exercise 174: Greatest Common Divisor
		Exercise 175: Recursive Decimal to Binary
		Exercise 176: The NATO Phonetic Alphabet
		Exercise 177: Roman Numerals
		Exercise 178: Recursive Palindrome
		Exercise 179: Recursive Square Root
		Exercise 180: String Edit Distance
		Exercise 181: Possible Change
		Exercise 182: Spelling with Element Symbols
		Exercise 183: Element Sequences
		Exercise 184: Flatten a List
		Exercise 185: Run-Length Decoding
		Exercise 186: Run-Length Encoding
Part II Solutions
9 Solutions to the Introduction to Programming Exercises
10 Solutions to the Decision Making Exercises
11 Solutions to the Repetition Exercises
12 Solutions to the Function Exercises
13 Solutions to the List Exercises
14 Solutions to the Dictionary Exercises
15 Solutions to the File and Exception Exercises
16 Solutions to the Recursion Exercises
Index
Index