An Introduction to Python and Computer Programming

• Main Author: Zhang, Yue (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, 353
• Subjects: Engineering.; Computer programming.; Programming languages (Electronic computers).; Applied mathematics.; Engineering mathematics.; Electrical engineering.; Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engineering.; Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters.; Communications Engineering, Networks.; Programming Techniques.

This book introduces Python programming language and fundamental concepts in algorithms and computing. Its target audience includes students and engineers with little or no background in programming, who need to master a practical programming language and learn the basic thinking in computer science...

Table of Contents:

• An introduction to Python and computer programming
• Using Python as a Calculator
• The First Python Program
• Branching and Looping
• Problem solving using branches and loops
• Functions
• Lists and mutability
• Sequences, Mappings and Sets
• Problem solving using lists and functions
• Classes
• Summary.