Learning to Program in Python

by P M Heathcote

Overview

This book is a straightforward guide to the Python programming language and programming techniques. It covers all of the practical programming skills that may be required up to GCSE level and for those at AS Level with limited exposure to Python. It is suitable for both experienced programmers, students or individuals with very little or no programming experience in other languages.

It teaches basic syntax and programming techniques, and introduces three inbuilt Python modules:

Tkinter, used for building a graphical user interface, which is an option that some users may like to include in their project work.

SQLite, which enables the creation and processing of a database from within a Python program. This provides an alternative to writing to a text file when data needs to be stored and retrieved.

pdb, Python's debugging module, which can be used to help find elusive logic errors.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781910523117
Publisher:	Pg Online Limited
Publication date:	06/19/2017
Pages:	130
Product dimensions:	7.44(w) x 9.69(h) x 0.35(d)

Table of Contents

• Chapter 1: Data types, operators and I/O
• Chapter 2: Strings and numbers
• Chapter 3: Selection
• Chapter 4: Iteration
• Chapter 5: Lists and tuples
• Chapter 6: Validating user input
• Chapter 7: Searching and sorting
• Chapter 8: Functions
• Chapter 9: Reading and writing files
• Chapter 10: Databases and SQL
• Chapter 11: Python’s SQLite module
• Chapter 12: Introduction to Tkinter
• Chapter 13: Developing an application using Tkinter
• Chapter 14: Program design
• Chapter 15: Testing and debugging