Python Programming in Context, Third Edition provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to Python fundamentals. Updated with the latest version of Python, the new Third Edition offers a thorough overview of multiple applied areas, including image processing, cryptography, astronomy, the Internet, and bioinformatics. Taking an active learning approach, each chapter starts with a comprehensive real-world project that teaches core design techniques and Python programming while engaging students. An ideal first language for learners entering the rapidly expanding field of computer science, Python gives students a solid platform of key problem-solving skills that translate easily across programming languages.
At SIGCSE 2018, it was the third most requested title. Currently 81 schools use the second edition of this title"--
At SIGCSE 2018, it was the third most requested title. Currently 81 schools use the second edition of this title"--
This package contains the print textbook, the Cloud DeskTop, and the Navigate 2 eBook!
This book is suitable for use in a university-level first course in computing (CS1), as well as the increasingly popular course known as CS0.
This edition offers expanded material on statistics and machine learning and new chapters on Frequentist and Bayesian statistics.
The content is still there, but structured a little differently. We use Python as the programming language because it has a clean, simple syntax and an intuitive user environment. The basic collections are very powerful and yet easy to ...
The book's hands-on approach shows how programs can be used to build multimedia computer science applications that include sound, graphics, music, pictures, and movies.
This book contains 30 well-developed independent projects that encourage students to explore questions across disciplinary boundaries, over 750 homework exercises, and 300 integrated reflection questions engage students in problem solving ...
The Hitchhiker's Guide to Python takes the journeyman Pythonista to true expertise.
F. H. Wild III, Choice, Vol. 47 (8), April 2010 Those of us who have learned scientific programming in Python ‘on the streets’ could be a little jealous of students who have the opportunity to take a course out of Langtangen’s Primer ...