Python Programming

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Salient Features

  • No programming background necessary
  • Example-driven problem-solving approach (probability of a card, blood group matching, ...)
  • Gradually added complexity (lucky cards, all prime numbers in a range, ...)
  • Solved and unsolved exercises
  • QR code points to all the programs (over 100 programs in five units)
 

Now available also in various languages.

Gujarati ગુજરાતી

Translated by Dr. Nrupesh Shah, Computer Engineering Department, Government Engineering College, Gandhinagar.

Hindi हिन्दी

Translated by Dr. Sandeep Raghuwanshi, Synechron Pvt. Ltd Bangalore.

Malayalam മലയാളം

Translated by Dr. Manjula Devananda, KVM College of Engineering & IT, Cherthala.

Marathi मराठी

Translated by Dr. Pratap Mohite, Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Technological University, Lonere

Telugu తెలుగు

Translated by Dr. Kandru. Sudha Rani, EIE Department, VNR Vignana Jyothi Institute of Engineering & Technology, Hyderabad

Sample programs from the book

Unit 1: Introduction, Variables, and Data Types Unit 2: Control Structures Unit 3: Functions, Modules, and Packages Unit 4: Files and Regular Expressions Unit 5: Django Framework
  • Probability of a card
  • Sum of first N numbers
  • Extracting fields of a roll number
  • Word shuffle
  • Matching blood group
  • Find student from a dept.
  • Lucky cards
  • Pass % of a class
  • Fibonacci numbers
  • Collatz sequence
  • Primality testing
  • Birthdays in a month
  • Exact change
  • Perfect numbers
  • Fibonacci strings
  • Recursive list printing
  • Binary search
  • Track academic performance
  • Matrix operations
  • Tic-tac-toe
  • Print file contents
  • Copy a file
  • Split text into words
  • Join words to form sentences
  • Find and replace
  • Extract academic record
  • Track friends‘ information
  • Conference registration
  • Find all mobile numbers
  • Find all email addresses
  • Display an HTML file
  • Display academic record
  • Create personal webpage

Errata, Clarifications, and Suggestions
SectionTextCommentSuggested by
----Introducing helpers like argparser could be useful,
covering compiled python code (.pyc) files could be useful as well. 		Rahul Fiske, IBM
1.8List and Tuple are marked as Unordered.List and Tuple should be marked as Ordered. Set is an example of an Unordered data type.Dr. N Srikanth Reddy, Presidency University

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