Fundamentals of python : first programs /
Kenneth A. Lambert, Martin Osborne, contributing author.
- Second edition.
- Boston, MA : Cengage Learning, c2019.
- xix, 476 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes appendices and glossary.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Software development, data types, and expressions -- Loops and selection statements -- Strings and text files -- Lists and dictionaries --Design with functions -- Simple graphics and image processing -- Graphical user interfaces -- Design with classes -- Multithreading, networks, and client/server programming -- Searching, sorting, and complexity analysis -- Appendix A. Phyton resources -- B. Installing the images and breezypythongui libraries -- The API for image processing -- Transition from python to Java and C++ -- Glossary -- Index.
"Master today's required computer science topics while preparing for further study with Lambert's FUNDAMENTALS OF PYTHON: FIRST PROGRAMS. This book's easygoing approach is ideal for readers with any type of background. The approach starts with simple algorithmic code and then scales into working with functions, objects, and classes as the problems become more complex and require new abstraction mechanisms. Rather than working only with numeric or text-based applications like other introductions, this edition presents graphics, image manipulation, GUIs, and simple networked client/server applications. The author uses Python's standard Turtle graphics module to introduce graphics and to provide open source frameworks for easy image processing and GUI application development."--Publisher's note.