How to Think Like a Computer Scientist¶

Learning with Python 3 (WLE)¶

Version date: Spring 2018

this version maintained and tweaked by Albert Schueller

(derived from the Rhodes Local Edition by Peter Wentworth, Jeffrey Elkner, Allen B. Downey, and Chris Meyers)

Corresponding author: schuelaw@whitman.edu

Source repository is at TBA.

For offline use, download a zip file of the html or a pdf version (the pdf is updated less often) from TBA

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Copyright Notice
Foreword
Preface
Preface-RLE Rhodes Local Edition (RLE) of the book
Preface-WLE This Whitman Local Edition (WLE) of the book
Contributor List
Chapter 1 The way of the program
Chapter 2 Variables, expressions, and statements
Chapter 3 Hello, little turtles!
Chapter 4 Functions
Chapter 5 Conditionals
Chapter 6 Fruitful functions
Chapter 7 Iteration
Chapter 8 Strings
Chapter 9 Tuples
Chapter 10 Lists
Chapter 11 Modules
Chapter 12 Files
Chapter 13 List Algorithms
Chapter 14 Classes and Objects - the Basics
Chapter 15 Classes and Objects - Digging a little deeper
Chapter 16 Processing
Chapter 17 Recursion
Chapter 18 Exceptions
Chapter 19 Dictionaries
Chapter 20 Case Study: A File Indexer
Chapter 21 Even more OOP
Chapter 22 Collections of Objects
Chapter 23 Inheritance
Chapter 24 Linked Lists
Chapter 25 Stacks
Chapter 26 Queues
Chapter 27 Trees
Appendix A Debugging
Appendix B An odds-and-ends Workbook
Appendix C Configuring Ubuntu for Python Development
Appendix D Customizing and Contributing to the Book
Appendix E Some Tips, Tricks, and Common Errors
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