Fundamentals of Python

Description

In FUNDAMENTALS OF PYTHON: FROM FIRST PROGRAMS THROUGH DATA STRUCTURES, Washington and Lee University professor Kenneth A. Lambert presents all of the important topics in CS1 and CS2 in one volume. This economical format provides instructors with a consistent approach to teaching introductory programming and data structures over a standard two-term course sequence. The book uses the Python programming language, which is both easy to learn for beginners and scales well to advanced applications.

CONTENTS:

1. Introduction.

2. Data Types and Expressions.

3. Control Statements.

4. Strings and Text Files.

5. Lists and Dictionaries.

6. Design With Functions.

7. Simple Graphics and Image Processing.

8. Design with Classes.

9. Graphical User Interfaces.

10. Multithreading, Networks, and Client/Server Programming.

11. Searching, Sorting, and Complexity.

12. Tools for Design, Documentation, and Testing.

13. Collections, Arrays, and Linked Structures.

14. Stacks.

15. Queues.

16. Linked Lists.

17. Recursion.

18. Hierarchical Collections: Trees.

19. Unordered Collections: Sets and Dictionaries.

20. Graphics.

Appendices.

Glossary.

Index.