0.1 You Are Here
0.2 How to Go Through This Course
0.3 What's Coding?
0.4 Installing Python and Other Tools
1.1* Finding the Goblin • Introduction to the project
1.2* Talk To Me • print, input and strings
1.3* Store This in A Box • Variables
1.4 Sticking Strings Together • Concatentation
1.5* Deciding What To Do • if statements
1.6* Squashing Your First Bug • Introduction to data types
1.7* On And On • while loop
1.8* On And On But Not Forever • Stopping the while loop
1.9* Fetching More Python Stuff • Importing modules
1.10 Finishing Touches
1.11 [A bit extra] More On if Statements • if, elif and else
1.12 Final Word • Store, Repeat, Decide, Resuse
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Exercises for Chapter 1
2.1 Where Are We In This Tale?
2.2* Meet Monty • Introduction to the central analogy in A Python Tale
2.3* Monty Starts His Adventures
2.4* Is It DRY? • for loops
2.5* More On The for Loop
2.6* Revisiting The while Loop • Comparing for and while
2.7 Indents Are Not Just Decorative
2.8* Storing Several Items in One Box • Lists
2.9* Finding Things in The Box • Indexing and slicing
2.10 More Slicing
2.11 And One More List Fact
2.12* Looping Through Lists
2.13 Final Word
Who am I? (If you care…)
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Exercises for Chapter 2
3.1 The Road We've Already Travelled
3.2* The Baby Name Project • Introducing the project
3.3 First, Solve The Problem. Then, Write The Code
Accessing Files You'll Need • Adding them to the Python project
3.4* The First Iteration • Getting started
3.5 Indexing Revisited
3.6* Back To The First Iteration
3.7* Repeating Our Code For All The Names
3.8* Adding Names To An Empty List • Introduction to methods
3.9*** I Want To Reuse This Code • Defining functions
3.10 Monty and The Function Room
3.11* Local Variables and Returning Data • return statement
3.12 Calling The Function
3.13* Making The Function More Flexible • Parameters and arguments (Part 1)
3.14* Making The Function More Flexible • Parameters and arguments (Part 2)
3.15 Defining Another Function
3.16* More Parameters, More Arguments
3.17 Revisiting Monty and The Function Room
3.18 Monty's Complaints • Error messages when calling functions
3.19 Final Word
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Exercises for Chapter 3
4.1 Data, Data, and Data • Chapter overview
4.2 Subject-Specific and Programming-Specific Knowledge
4.3* Some Data Type Categories • Iterables and Sequences
4.4* Some Data Type Categories • Mutable and Immutable
4.5* What Can This Data Do? • Methods associated with data types
4.6* Revisiting Mutable and Immutable Data Types
4.7 More Ways of Storing Stuff • Data Structures
4.8 Single, Double, Triple, Quadruple... Tuple
4.9* The Python Dictionary (not that type of dictionary, no)
4.10 And A Bit More About Dictionaries
4.11* Pride & Prejudice • Introducing the new project • Reading from text files
4.12* Splitting The Text Into Words
4.13* Cleaning Required • Cleaning the data (Part 1)
4.14* Cleaning Required • Cleaning the data (Part 2)
4.15* What Are The Most Common Words Jane Austen Used?
4.16 Reviewing The Algorithm
4.17 Share Your Results • Writing results to a spreadsheet
4.18 Looping Through Dictionaries
4.19 Back To Exporting To A Spreadsheet
4.20 Some Extras…
4.21 Final Word
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Exercises for Chapter 4
E.1 What's In This Epilogue
E.2 Bouncing a Ball • Introduction to the project
E.3 Create a Ball • The turtle module
E.4 A Very Brief turtle Primer
E.5 Drop the Ball
E.6 Now Add Gravity
E.7 Controlling When Things Are Displayed On Your Screen
E.8 Bounce The Ball
E.9 Bounce The Ball (properly)
E.10 Throw The Ball Sideways
E.11 Don't Forget The Walls
E.12 Finishing Touches
E.13 Monty and The White Room • The main room
E.14 Monty and The White Room • The function room
E.15 Monty and The White Room • Python City
E.16 The Final Final Word (for this course!)
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