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Get Programming: Learn to code with Python 1st Edition, Kindle Edition

by Ana Bell (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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Get Programming: Learn to code with Python teaches you the basics of computer programming using the Python language. In this exercise-driven book, you'll be doing something on nearly every page as you work through 38 compact lessons and 7 engaging capstone projects. By exploring the crystal-clear illustrations, exercises that check your understanding as you go, and tips for what to try next, you'll start thinking like a programmer in no time.

This book works perfectly alongside our video course Get Programming with Python in Motion, available exclusively at Manning.com: www.manning.com/livevideo/get-programming-with-python-in-motion

Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.

What's Inside
  • Programming skills you can use in any language
  • Learn to code—no experience required
  • Learn Python, the language for beginners
  • Dozens of exercises and examples help you learn by doing

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No prior programming experience needed.

Table of Contents
LEARNING HOW TO PROGRAM
Lesson 1 - Why should you learn how to program?
Lesson 2 - Basic principles of learning a programming language
UNIT 1 - VARIABLES, TYPES, EXPRESSIONS, AND STATEMENTS
Lesson 3 - Introducing Python: a programming language
Lesson 4 - Variables and expressions: giving names and values to things
Lesson 5 - Object types and statements of code 46
Lesson 6 - Capstone project: your first Python program-convert hours to minutes
UNIT 2 - STRINGS, TUPLES, AND INTERACTING WITH THE USER
Lesson 7 - Introducing string objects: sequences of characters
Lesson 8 - Advanced string operations
Lesson 9 - Simple error messages
Lesson 10 - Tuple objects: sequences of any kind of object
Lesson 11 - Interacting with the user
Lesson 12 - Capstone project: name mashup
UNIT 3 - MAKING DECISIONS IN YOUR PROGRAMS
Lesson 13 - Introducing decisions in programs
Lesson 14 - Making more-complicated decisions
Lesson 15 - Capstone project: choose your own adventure
UNIT 4 - REPEATING TASKS
Lesson 16 - Repeating tasks with loops
Lesson 17 - Customizing loops
Lesson 18 - Repeating tasks while conditions hold
Lesson 19 - Capstone project: Scrabble, Art Edition
UNIT 5 - ORGANIZING YOUR CODE INTO REUSABLE BLOCKS
Lesson 20 - Building programs to last
Lesson 21 - Achieving modularity and abstraction with functions
Lesson 22 - Advanced operations with functions
Lesson 23 - Capstone project: analyze your friends
UNIT 6 - WORKING WITH MUTABLE DATA TYPES
Lesson 24 - Mutable and immutable objects
Lesson 25 - Working with lists
Lesson 26 - Advanced operations with lists
Lesson 27 - Dictionaries as maps between objects
Lesson 28 - Aliasing and copying lists and dictionaries
Lesson 29 - Capstone project: document similarity
UNIT 7 - MAKING YOUR OWN OBJECT TYPES BY USING OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING
Lesson 30 - Making your own object types
Lesson 31 - Creating a class for an object type
Lesson 32 - Working with your own object types
Lesson 33 - Customizing classes
Lesson 34 - Capstone project: card game
UNIT 8 - USING LIBRARIES TO ENHANCE YOUR PROGRAMS
Lesson 35 - Useful libraries
Lesson 36 - Testing and debugging your programs
Lesson 37 - A library for graphical user interfaces
Lesson 38 - Capstone project: game of tag
Appendix A - Answers to lesson exercises
Appendix B - Python cheat sheet
Appendix C - Interesting Python libraries

 
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"An easy-to-follow intro to Python." -David Moravec, Mainstream Technologies

"Kick-starts programming concepts with Python-but useful to anyone getting started with programming." -Sam Johnson, Intouch Solutions

"A definitive resource for anyone wanting to grasp how to solve problems using Python." -Vester Thacker, AIG Technologies

"Very helpful in creating a solid foundation of generic programming principles." -Prabhuti Prakash, Atos

"Accessible and intuitive. After going through the many examples in the book, I felt much more confident in my Python programming skills." -Nicole Kogan, MIT

About the Author

Ana Bell is a lecturer at MIT in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department, where she co-lectures the Introduction to Computer Science and Programming Using Python course aimed at students with no programming experience.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B09781VJRF
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Manning; 1st edition (March 27, 2018)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 27, 2018
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 3945 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 456 pages
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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Book If You Are Starting To Learn Coding and Python
Reviewed in the United States on January 12, 2021
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Excellent book for beginners.

The author guides you through the programming steps by using real life analogy. This is an excellent book for people who are new to programming concepts and trying to learn Python as the first programming language.

If you are already familiar with other programming languages, this is not for you.
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A Martin
5.0 out of 5 stars Teaches you to think like a programmer.
Reviewed in the United States on June 28, 2019
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I believe this is a very good book for those who have never programmed before as well as for those who need an intro to the language. I especially like how it focuses on getting the student to fully understand and solve the problem before writing any code. It teaches one to think in a computational way, like the author states. I'm enjoying it very much.
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Miss Barbara
5.0 out of 5 stars One of the better beginners books
Reviewed in the United States on July 23, 2018
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I’ve been using this book for about a month now in conjunction with our library’s high school summer education center. It’s amazing how many kids want to learn coding and programing but will drop out when the going gets tough. I’ve had a lot more success with this book than any other I’ve used in quite a while. It’s written for beginners with only a rudimentary background in coding. It assumes you’re a beginner unlike many other books of its ilk.

The book is laid out in logical step-by-step increments using language that a beginner can understand. It uses a hands on approach and introduces the projects in logical building blocks. There are many exercises that help you learn by doing.

The reader/student will end each segment with a capstone project – 1. Converting hours to minutes. 2. Name mashup. 3. Choose your own adventure. 4. Scrabble, Art Edition. 5. Analyze your friends. 6. Document similarity. 7. Card game. 8. Game of tag.

The book also contains 3 appendices: Appendix A - Answers to lesson exercises Appendix B - Python cheat sheet Appendix C - Interesting Python libraries. If you’re a student, a worker needing to up your skills or someone wanted to add an additional tool to your arsenal of knowledge this book will surely be the tool you need.
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Sonalp
5.0 out of 5 stars An easy to follow introductory Python programming book for everyone
Reviewed in the United States on June 30, 2018
An easy to follow introductory Python programming book for everyone. Currently, Python is one of the most popular programming language and is easy to learn to get started to program for everyone.

This book contains numerous practical examples. This can be useful for a novice programer and also intermediate level programmers. It provides numerous easy to follow examples. This book can also be used as a reference for the online classes in basic programming using python.

Dr Bell has been teaching basic python programming class to undergraduates at MIT, and also supports, two very popular MOOC classes on the edX platform on computer science, using python. Here, she brings in her own teaching experience, which makes this book valuable for various audiences. This can be used by young students in middle and high school and also by anyone who is new to programming and is interested in learning to code using the python programming language.

This book, not only covers basics of programming, but also covers some popular python libraries, which can be used to do variety of useful work using python. I would recommend this book for all, who want to learn to code in python and apply it in their personal and professional life to create useful applications.
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Susie Q.
5.0 out of 5 stars Learn to code with python
Reviewed in the United States on March 3, 2019
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Learn to Code with Python is a wonderful resource that teaches the fundamentals of programming with the Python language. This book is easy to read and makes programming concepts easy to understand. This resource is designed to take a reader with little to no experience in programming (of any language) and introduce them to the basics of data types, conditional, loops, and object oriented programming. It’s also useful to help the programmer who wishes to migrate to the Python language. Each subject dealt with is supplemented with sample code that can be easily integrated and modified to work in other programs. I would highly recommend this book to beginner programmers as well as to those who want to learn the Python language.
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Theseus
5.0 out of 5 stars Practical
Reviewed in the United States on November 28, 2018
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This is a straightforward and nicely-sequenced approach that is well-designed for beginners -- particularly apt because Python is often regarded as a beginner's language. The instruction on string objects/sequences of characters is a very nice example of this. (As is Lesson 17 - Customizing loops.) Oddly, Python is going through a bit of a resurrection now, being used more extensively in the fields, so that increases its playability/utility in the present.
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Adam Ad
5.0 out of 5 stars excellent book
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 16, 2020
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the best book for beginners
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Angel Martínez
3.0 out of 5 stars Demasiado básico
Reviewed in Spain on April 23, 2019
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Libro para los que no tienen ni idea de programar, no solamente en Python sino en cualquier lenguaje. Demasiado tiempo con los preámbulos y el pseudocódigo hacen de esta obra un poco decepcionante. Si no tienes idea de nada, este no es tu libro y si tienes idea, tampoco. De todas maneras se pueden recoger ideas para la enseñanza del lenguaje. Por lo tanto solamente al profesor "friki" de turno sacará rendimiento de el. O no.
Hoy a 29 de abril de 2019, después de una mirada más detallada, quizá haya sido demasiado exigente, posiblemente por haber analizado otro libro de la misma colección, y lógicamente me esperaba una obra mas avanzada, le subo una estrella. O esto, o yo también soy un profe "friki", quizás incluso, como obra para "No Iniciados", podría haber puesto incluso 4 estrellas.
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醍醐の桜
5.0 out of 5 stars チャーミングな著者の人柄がとてもいい。
Reviewed in Japan on March 20, 2021
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YouTubeの彼女の動画を観て惹かれ、Googleで彼女の画像検索をしたときに写真と一緒にこの本が紹介されていて、アマゾンで検索したら、あった。（＾＾）で、即発注したしだい。内容はPythonを使っているがプログラミング全体の学習の仕方のようで、Computerが好きな人なら楽しめると思う。楽しみながらPythonでコードの世界を学習していくという使い方をしています。とにかく本にも彼女の人柄の良さが滲み出ていて、本を開くのが楽しい。（＾＾）
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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 26, 2018
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Well written, All clear. A PDF/digital copy is included in the book.
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