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 PRAISE FOR PYTHON CRASH COURSE
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About the Author
Eric Matthes is a high school science and math teacher living in Alaska,
where he teaches an introductory Python course. He has been writing
programs since he was five years old. Eric currently focuses on writing
software that addresses inefficiencies in education and brings the
benefits of open source software to the field of education. In his spare
time he enjoys climbing mountains and spending time with his family.
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 For my father, who always made time to answer my
questions about programming, and for Ever, who is just
beginning to ask me his questions
 BRIEF CONTENTS
Preface to the Second Edition
Acknowledgments
Introduction

PART I: BASICS
Chapter 1: Getting Started
Chapter 2: Variables and Simple Data Types
Chapter 3: Introducing Lists
Chapter 4: Working with Lists
Chapter 5: if Statements
Chapter 6: Dictionaries
Chapter 7: User Input and while Loops
Chapter 8: Functions
Chapter 9: Classes
Chapter 10: Files and Exceptions
Chapter 11: Testing Your Code

PART II: PROJECTS

Project 1: Alien Invasion

Chapter 12: A Ship that Fires Bullets
Chapter 13: Aliens!
Chapter 14: Scoring
Project 2: Data Visualization
Chapter 15: Generating Data
Chapter 16: Downloading Data
Chapter 17: Working with APIs

Project 3: Web Applications

Chapter 18: Getting Started with Django
Chapter 19: User Accounts
Chapter 20: Styling and Deploying an App

Afterword

Appendix A: Installation and Troubleshooting

Appendix B: Text Editors and IDEs
Appendix C: Getting Help
Appendix D: Using Git for Version Control

Index
 CONTENTS IN DETAIL
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION
Who Is This Book For?
What Can You Expect to Learn?
Online Resources
Why Python?

PART I: BASICS

1
GETTING STARTED
Setting Up Your Programming Environment
Python Versions
Running Snippets of Python Code
About the Sublime Text Editor
Python on Different Operating Systems
Python on Windows
Python on macOS
Python on Linux
Running a Hello World Program
Configuring Sublime Text to Use the Correct Python Version
Running hello_world.py
Troubleshooting
Running Python Programs from a Terminal
On Windows
On macOS and Linux
Exercise 1-1: python.org
 Exercise 1-2: Hello World Typos
Exercise 1-3: Infinite Skills
Summary

2
VARIABLES AND SIMPLE DATA TYPES
What Really Happens When You Run hello_world.py
Variables
Naming and Using Variables
Avoiding Name Errors When Using Variables
Variables Are Labels
Exercise 2-1: Simple Message
Exercise 2-2: Simple Messages
Strings
Changing Case in a String with Methods
Using Variables in Strings
Adding Whitespace to Strings with Tabs or Newlines
Stripping Whitespace
Avoiding Syntax Errors with Strings
Exercise 2-3: Personal Message
Exercise 2-4: Name Cases
Exercise 2-5: Famous Quote
Exercise 2-6: Famous Quote 2
Exercise 2-7: Stripping Names
Numbers
Integers
Floats
Integers and Floats
Underscores in Numbers
Multiple Assignment
Constants
Exercise 2-8: Number Eight
Exercise 2-9: Favorite Number
Comments
How Do You Write Comments?
What Kind of Comments Should You Write?
Exercise 2-10: Adding Comments
The Zen of Python
Exercise 2-11: Zen of Python
Summary

3
INTRODUCING LISTS
What Is a List?
Accessing Elements in a List
Index Positions Start at 0, Not 1
Using Individual Values from a List
Exercise 3-1: Names
Exercise 3-2: Greetings
Exercise 3-3: Your Own List
Changing, Adding, and Removing Elements
Modifying Elements in a List
Adding Elements to a List
Removing Elements from a List
Exercise 3-4: Guest List
Exercise 3-5: Changing Guest List
Exercise 3-6: More Guests
Exercise 3-7: Shrinking Guest List
Organizing a List
Sorting a List Permanently with the sort() Method
Sorting a List Temporarily with the sorted() Function
Printing a List in Reverse Order
Finding the Length of a List
Exercise 3-8: Seeing the World
Exercise 3-9: Dinner Guests
Exercise 3-10: Every Function
Avoiding Index Errors When Working with Lists
Exercise 3-11: Intentional Error
Summary

4
WORKING WITH LISTS
Looping Through an Entire List
A Closer Look at Looping
Doing More Work Within a for Loop
Doing Something After a for Loop
Avoiding Indentation Errors
Forgetting to Indent
Forgetting to Indent Additional Lines
Indenting Unnecessarily
Indenting Unnecessarily After the Loop
Forgetting the Colon
Exercise 4-1: Pizzas
Exercise 4-2: Animals
Making Numerical Lists
Using the range() Function
Using range() to Make a List of Numbers
Simple Statistics with a List of Numbers
List Comprehensions
Exercise 4-3: Counting to Twenty
Exercise 4-4: One Million
Exercise 4-5: Summing a Million
Exercise 4-6: Odd Numbers
Exercise 4-7: Threes
Exercise 4-8: Cubes
Exercise 4-9: Cube Comprehension
Working with Part of a List
Slicing a List
Looping Through a Slice
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 FOOTNOTES.

[20] See Plain Tracts for Critical Times, by a Union of Clergymen.

And on this text generally.
[27] With reference to the “seed” of Abraham, see Note A. in
Appendix.
[50] See Note (B.)
[57] See Note (C.)
[61] Lectures on The Epistle to the Romans. By the Rev. John Fry,
A.B., &c.
[65] See the connection between the Covenant-holiness of children
and their being presented to the Lord, more distinctly shown in the
case of the first-born of Israel. (Exod. xiii. 2, compared with Luke ii.
22, 23.)
[88] Lectures on The Epistle to the Romans, by the Rev. John Fry,
A.B., &c.
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