A Beginners Guide To Python 3 Programming

Introduction

This textbook on Python 3 explains concepts such as variables and what they represent, how data is held in memory, how a for loop works and what a string is. It also introduces key concepts such as functions, modules and packages as well as object orientation and functional programming. Each section is prefaced with an introductory chapter, before continuing with how these ideas work in Python.

Topics such as generators and coroutines are often misunderstood and these are explained in detail, whilst topics such as Referential Transparency, multiple inheritance and exception handling are presented using examples.

A Beginners Guide to Python 3 Programming provides all you need to know about Python, with numerous examples provided throughout including several larger worked case studies illustrating the ideas presented in the previous chapters.

TABLE OF CONTENTS (38 Chapters)

Front Matter

Pages i-xxvii

Introduction

Pages 1-11

Setting Up the Python Environment

Pages 13-22

A First Python Program

Pages 23-31

Python Strings

Pages 33-49

Numbers, Booleans and None

Pages 51-64

Flow of Control Using If Statements

Pages 65-73

Iteration/Looping

Pages 75-85

Number Guessing Game

Pages 87-97

Recursion

Pages 99-106

Introduction to Structured Analysis

Pages 107-116

Functions in Python

Pages 117-131

Scope and Lifetime of Variables

Pages 133-138

Implementing a Calculator Using Functions

Pages 139-148

Introduction to Functional Programming

Pages 149-155

Higher Order Functions

Pages 157-166

Curried Functions

Pages 167-173

Introduction to Object Orientation

Pages 175-188

Python Classes

Pages 189-204

Class Side and Static Behaviour

Pages 205-209

Class Inheritance

Pages 211-232

Why Bother with Object Orientation?

Pages 233-239

Operator Overloading

Pages 241-251

Python Properties

Pages 253-261

Error and Exception Handling

Pages 263-280

Python Modules and Packages

Pages 281-297

Abstract Base Classes

Pages 299-309

Protocols, Polymorphism and Descriptors

Pages 311-323

Monkey Patching and Attribute Lookup

Pages 325-336

Decorators

Pages 337-351

Iterables, Iterators, Generators and Coroutines

Pages 353-362

Collections, Tuples and Lists

Pages 363-378

Sets

Pages 379-387

Dictionaries

Pages 389-400

Collection Related Modules

Pages 401-406

ADTs, Queues and Stacks

Pages 407-414

Map, Filter and Reduce

Pages 415-421

TicTacToe Game

Pages 423-433

Correction to: Functions in Python

Pages C1-C1

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Bibliographic information

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20290-3

Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019

Publisher Name: Springer, Cham

eBook Packages: Computer Science

Print ISBN: 978-3-030-20289-7

Online ISBN: 978-3-030-20290-3

Series Print ISSN: 1863-7310

Series Online ISSN: 2197-1781