intro-to-python/CONTENTS.md

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• Chapter 0: Introduction
  • content (Python's History & Background; Open-source & Communities; JupyterLab; Programming vs. Computer Science; Learning Tips)
  • exercises (Mastering Markdown)
  • review questions
• Part A: Expressing Logic
  • Chapter 1: Elements of a Program
    • content (A first Example: Averaging Even Numbers; Operators; Objects & Data Types; Errors)
    • exercises (Printing Output)
    • exercises (Simple for-loops)
    • content (Memory in Detail; Variables & References; Mutability; Expressions & Statements)
    • exercises (Python as a Calculator)
    • summary
    • review questions
    • further resources
  • Chapter 2: Functions & Modularization
    • content (Built-in Functions & Constructors; Function Definitions; Function Calls & Scoping Rules; Positional vs. Keyword Arguments; Modularization)
    • exercises (Volume of a Sphere)
    • content (Standard Library: math & random Modules; Third-party Packages: numpy Library; Writing one's own Modules)
    • summary
    • review questions
  • Chapter 3: Conditionals & Exceptions
    • content (Boolean Expressions; Relational Operators; Logical Operators; if statement; Exception Handling)
    • exercises (Discounting Customer Orders)
    • exercises (Fizz Buzz)
    • summary
    • review questions
  • Chapter 4: Recursion & Looping
    • content (Recursion; Examples: Factorial, Euclid's Algorithm, & Fibonacci; Duck Typing; Type Casting & Checking; Input Validation)
    • exercises (Towers of Hanoi)
    • content (Looping with while & for; Examples: Collatz Conjecture, Factorial, Euclid's Algorithm, & Fibonacci; Containers vs. Iterables)
    • content (Customizing Loops with break and continue; Indefinite Loops)
    • exercises (Throwing Dice)
    • summary
    • review questions
• Part B: Managing Data and Memory
  • Chapter 5: Numbers & Bits
    • content (int Type; Binary & Hexadecimal Representations; Bit Arithmetic; Bitwise Operators)
    • content (float Type; Floating-point Standard; Special Values; Imprecision; Binary & Hexadecimal Representations)
    • content (complex Type; Numerical Tower; Duck vs. Goose Typing)
    • appendix (Decimal Type; Fraction Type)
    • summary
    • review questions
    • further resources
  • Chapter 6: Text & Bytes
    • content (str Type; Reading Files; Sequences; Indexing & Slicing; String Methods & Operations; String Interpolation)
    • exercises (Detecting Palindromes)
    • content (Special Characters; ASCII & Unicode; Multi-line Strings; bytes Type; Character Encodings)
    • summary
    • review questions
    • further resources
  • Chapter 7: Sequential Data
    • content (Collections vs. Sequences; ABCs: Container, Iterable, Sized, & Reversible)
    • content (list Type; Indexing & Slicing; Shallow vs. Deep Copies; List Methods & Operations)
    • exercises (Working with Lists)
    • content (Modifiers vs. Pure Functions; tuple Type; Packing & Unpacking; *args in Function Definitions)
    • exercises (Packing & Unpacking with Functions)
    • appendix (namedtuple Type)
    • summary
    • review questions
  • Chapter 8: Map, Filter, & Reduce
    • content (Mapping; Filtering; Reducing; lambda Expression)
    • content (list Comprehension; generator Expression; Streams of Data; Boolean Reducers)