Introduction to Programming Solutions
Solutions to selected exercises from Chap. 1 .
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The Python Workbook A Brief Introduction with Exercises and Solutions
The Python Workbook
Ben Stephenson
The Python Workbook A Brief Introduction with Exercises and Solutions
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Ben Stephenson University of Calgary Calgary, AB Canada
ISBN 978-3-319-14239-5 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-14240-1
ISBN 978-3-319-14240-1
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To my son, Jonathan, who surprised us all by arriving before this book was completed, and to my wife Flora, for 12 fantastic years of marriage, and many more to come.
Preface
I believe that computer programming is a skill that is best learned through hands-on experience. While it is valuable for you to read about programming in textbooks and watch teachers create programs at the front of classrooms, it is even more important for you to spend time solving problems that allow you to put the ideas that you have been introduced to previously into practice. This book is designed to support and encourage hands-on learning about programming. It contains 174 exercises, spanning a variety of academic disciplines and everyday situations, which you can solve using only the material covered in most introductory Python programming courses. Each exercise that you complete will strengthen your understanding and enhance your ability to tackle subsequent programming challenges. I also hope that the connections that these exercises make to other academic disciplines and everyday life will keep you interested as you complete them. Solutions to approximately half of the exercises are provided in the second half of this book. Most of the solutions include brief annotations that explain the technique used to solve the problem, or highli
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