Contents¶

How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: SD Mesa College Edition

1. General Introduction
2. Simple Python Data
3. Debugging Interlude 1
4. Python Turtle Graphics
5. Python Modules
6. Functions
7. Selection
8. More About Iteration
9. Strings
10. Lists
11. Files
12. Dictionaries
13. Exceptions
14. Web Applications
15. GUI and Event Driven Programming
16. Recursion
17. Classes and Objects - the Basics
18. Classes and Objects - Digging a Little Deeper
19. Inheritance
20. Unit Testing

Labs

Astronomy Animation
Turtle Racing Lab
Drawing a Circle
Lessons from a Triangle
Finally a Circle
Counting Letters
Letter Count Histogram
Approximating the Value of Pi
Python Beyond the Browser
Experimenting With the 3n+1 Sequence
Plotting a sine Wave

Appendices

Debugging
Using Python in an IDE
Operator precedence table
test module source code

Acknowledgements

Copyright Notice
Preface to the Interactive Edition
Whats the deal with Logging in?
How to Contribute
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Preface to the Third Edition
The Rhodes Local Edition (RLE)
Preface to the First and Second Editions
Contributor List
GNU Free Documentation License
ADDENDUM: How to use this License for your documents

Index and Search

Index
Search Page

This interactive book is a product of the Runestone Interactive Project at Luther College, led by Brad Miller and David Ranum. There have been many contributors to the project. Our thanks especially to the following:

This book is based on the Original work by: Jeffrey Elkner, Allen B. Downey, and Chris Meyers
Activecode based on Skulpt
Codelens based on Online Python Tutor
Many contributions from the CSLearning4U research group at Georgia Tech.
ACM-SIGCSE for the special projects grant that funded our student Isaac Dontje Lindell for the summer of 2013.
NSF

The Runestone Interactive tools are open source and we encourage you to contact us, or grab a copy from GitHub if you would like to use them to write your own resources.