Learn to Program with Python by Irv Kalb

By Irv Kalb

Get begun on this planet of software program improvement: pass from 0 wisdom of programming to very easily writing small to medium-sized courses in Python. Programming will be intimidating (especially whilst such a lot books on software program require you to understand and use imprecise command line directions) however it doesn’t need to be that way!

In Learn to application with Python, writer Irv Kalb makes use of his in-person educating event to steer you thru studying the Python machine programming language. He makes use of a conversational type to make you're feeling as if he's your individual train. All fabric is specified by a considerate demeanour, every one lesson development on prior ones. Many real–world analogies make the cloth effortless to narrate to. a wide selection of well-documented examples are supplied. alongside the way in which, you’ll advance small courses by yourself via a sequence of coding demanding situations that make stronger the content material of the chapters.

What you are going to study:

  • Learn primary programming suggestions together with: variables and task statements, features, conditionals, loops, lists, strings, dossier enter and output, web info, and information structures
  • Get ok with the unfastened IDLE Interactive improvement surroundings (IDE), which you may use to write down and debug all of your Python code - little need to exploit the command line!
  • Build text-based courses, together with a few easy games
  • Learn tips to re-use code through development your personal modules
  • Use Python's integrated facts constructions and applications to symbolize and utilize advanced facts from the Internet

Who this booklet is for:This e-book assumes that you've got totally no earlier wisdom approximately programming. there isn't any have to examine or use any vague Unix instructions. scholars of any age who've had no publicity to programming and have an interest in studying to do software program improvement within the Python language. The e-book can be utilized as a textual content booklet linked to a highschool or university creation to laptop technology direction. Secondly, those who have had publicity to a couple machine language except Python, who wish to construct reliable conduct for programming in Python.

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Figure 2-2. Random-access memory diagram Every one of these memory locations can be used as a variable. That is, you can store a piece of data in any free memory slot. 13 CHAPTER 2 ■ VARIABLES AND ASSIGNMENT STATEMENTS ■ Note Behind the scenes, the way that Python stores data and variable names is more complex. For example, different types of data (integer, float, string, and Boolean) take up different amounts of memory rather than a single “slot”. But thinking of each piece of data as being stored in a single slot in memory provides a good “mental model”-a good way to think about what a variable is.

The following explains and provides examples of each of these types of data. Integers Integer numbers (or simply, integers) are counting numbers like 1, 2, 3, but also include 0 and negative numbers. The following are examples of data that are expressed as integers: • Number of people in a room • Personal or team score in a game • Course number • Date in a month • Temperature (in terms of number of degrees) Floats Floating-point numbers (or simply, floats) are numbers that have a decimal point in them.

To understand what Python is trying to say, look at the last line first. In this case, it says the following: NameError: name 'learningpython' is not defined And this is exactly the problem. The first line created a variable named learningPython, but learningpython (with a lowercase p) has never been defined. The wording of the last line of the traceback is very clear in explaining what went wrong. The middle two lines of the traceback tell you the line where the error occurred: File "", line 2, in print learningpython Errors in variable names will be the cause of many early errors in your programming.

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