- Cover
- Cover
- Introduction
- Week 1: Slithering into Python
- Project 1: Getting Started with Python
- Python and Why It’s Wonderful
- Who’s Using Python
- Making Things with Python
- Understanding This Book’s Pedagogical Approach
- Install Python on Mac OSX
- Install Python on Windows
- Install Python for Linux
- Pin Python to Your Start Menu
- Start the Python Interpreter
- Use Python’s Built-In Documentation
- Put the Kibosh on the Python Interpreter
- Find Python Documentation Online
- Join the Broader Python Community
- Handle Problems
- Learn How to Learn
- Summary
- Project 2: Hello World!
- Project 1: Getting Started with Python
- Week 2: Building Guessing Games
- Project 3: Guessing Game
- Plan the Game
- Get Input from the Player
- Ask for Input
- Make Sure Things Are Equal
- Call the Operators
- Divide in Python
- Compare the Guess to a Number
- Compare the Player’s Guess to the Computer’s Number
- Tell Players If the Guess Is Wrong
- Keep Asking Until the Player Guesses Correctly
- Make Python Think of a Random Number
- Use Namespaces
- Finish Your Guessing Game
- Summary
- Project 4: Set Up Your Coding Environment
- Project 5: A Better Guessing Game
- Handle Your Functions
- Naming Functions
- Add Function Help Text
- Make a Function Stub
- Rework Your Guessing Game
- Find a Logic Problem
- Solve the Logic Problem
- Notice Double Use of computers_number
- Understand How Scope Works
- Communicate with Your Function
- Send Information to a Function
- Give Some Arguments a Default Value
- Communicate from the Function
- Add a Score
- Let the User Quit
- The Complete Code
- Summary
- Project 3: Guessing Game
- Week 3: Creating Word Games
- Project 6: Hacker Speaker: 1337 Sp34k3r
- Waiter, There’s An Object In My String
- Dot Your Objects’ Attributes
- Meet the List
- Go Through the Elements of a List
- Create Your Own List
- Create a List on Steroids
- Test Whether an Element’s In a List
- Planning Your Elite Hacker Speaker
- Set Up Your File
- Make Code Letter Substitutions
- Replace a Letter
- Let the User Enter a Message
- Define Letter Substitutions
- Apply all the Substitutions
- Use print to Debug the Code
- Debug with IDLE’s Debugger
- Summary
- Project 7: Cryptopy
- Slice Off Those Dud Characters
- Make a Substitution Table
- Set Up Your Cipher
- Use the Dictionary
- Create an Encryption Dictionary
- Use a join
- Rewrite the Encryption Function
- Write the Decryption Function
- Encrypt a Text File
- Encrypt and Decrypt from a File
- Decrypt from Your Shell
- Change the Code to Decrypt Too
- The Complete Code
- Summary
- Project 8: Silly Sentences
- Project 6: Hacker Speaker: 1337 Sp34k3r
- Week 4: Stepping Up to Object-Oriented Programming
- Project 9: Address Book
- Your First Class Objects
- Create a Class
- Create an Instance
- Create Class and Instance Attributes
- Plan Your Address Book
- Set Up Your File and Create a Class
- Add Your First Person
- Instantiate an Instance Using __init__
- Create a Function to Print the Instance
- Use __repr__ Magic
- Initialize the AddressBook Instance
- Find Pickle Power
- Add a save Function
- Loading a Saved Pickle in the Same Application
- Test the load Method
- Add an Interface
- Fill in the Methods
- The Complete Code
- Summary
- Project 10: Math Trainer
- Project 9: Address Book
- About the Author
- Cheat Sheet
- Connect with Dummies
- End User License Agreement
Week 3
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