Tony Gaddis is the principal author of the Starting Out With series of textbooks. Tony has nearly two decades of experience teaching computer science courses, primarily at Haywood Community College. He is a highly acclaimed instructor who was previously selected as the North Carolina Community College “Teacher of the Year” and has received the Teaching Excellence award from the National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development. The Starting Out With series includes introductory books covering C++, Java™, Microsoft® Visual Basic®, Microsoft® C#®, Python®, Programming Logic and Design, Alice, and App Inventor, all published by Pearson. More information about all these books can be found at www.pearsonhighered.com/gaddisbooks.

Preface

1  Introduction to Computers and Programming

2  Input, Processing, and Output

3  Decision Structures and Boolean Logic

4  Repetition Structures

5  Functions

6  Files and Exceptions

7  Lists and Tuples

8  More About Strings

9  Dictionaries and Sets

10  Classes and Object-Oriented Programming

11  Inheritance

12  Recursion

13  GUI Programming

Appendix A  Installing Python

Appendix B  Introduction to IDLE

Appendix C  The ASCII Character Set

Appendix D  Predefined Named Colors

Appendix E  More About the import  Statement

Appendix F  Installing Modules with the pip  Utility

Appendix G  Answers to Checkpoints

Index

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