The Coder's Apprentice
Learning Programming with Python 3
by Pieter Spronck
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The goal of this book is to teach anyone how to create useful programs in Python. It should be usable by secondary school students, and university and college students for whom computer programming is not naturally incorporated in their course program. Its aim is to give anyone the means to become proficient in programming, and as such get prepared to perform well in the 21st century job market. 
Book Description
The Coder's Apprentice is a course book, written by Pieter Spronck, that is aimed at teaching Python 3 to students and teenagers who are completely new to programming. Contrary to many of the other books that teach Python programming, this book assumes no previous knowledge of programming on the part of the students, and contains numerous exercises that allow students to train their programming skills.The goal of this book is to teach anyone how to create useful programs in Python. It should be usable by secondary school students, and university and college students for whom computer programming is not naturally incorporated in their course program. Its aim is to give anyone the means to become proficient in programming, and as such get prepared to perform well in the 21st century job market.
This open book is licensed under a Creative Commons License (CC BY). You can download The Coder's Apprentice ebook for free in PDF format (4.2 MB).
Table of Contents
Chapter 1
Introduction
Chapter 2
Using Python
Chapter 3
Expressions
Chapter 4
Variables
Chapter 5
Simple Functions
Chapter 6
Conditions
Chapter 7
Iterations
Chapter 8
Functions
Chapter 9
Recursion
Chapter 10
Strings
Chapter 11
Tuples
Chapter 12
Lists
Chapter 13
Dictionaries
Chapter 14
Sets
Chapter 15
Operating System
Chapter 16
Text Files
Chapter 17
Exceptions
Chapter 18
Binary Files
Chapter 19
Bitwise Operators
Chapter 20
Object Orientation
Chapter 21
Operator Overloading
Chapter 22
Inheritance
Chapter 23
Iterators and Generators
Chapter 24
Command Line Processing
Chapter 25
Regular Expressions
Chapter 26
File Formats
Chapter 27
Various Useful Modules
Appendix A
Troubleshooting
Appendix B
Differences with Python 2
Appendix C
pcinput.py
Appendix D
pcmaze.py
Appendix E
Test Text Files
Appendix F
Answers to Exercises
Book Details
Title
The Coder's Apprentice
Subject
Computer Science
Publisher
Self-publishing
Published
2017
Pages
398
Edition
1
Language
English
PDF Size
4.2 MB
License
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