How to Think Like a Computer Scientist

Learning with Python 3 (RLE)

Version date: October 2012

by Peter Wentworth, Jeffrey Elkner, Allen B. Downey, and Chris Meyers

(based on 2nd edition by Jeffrey Elkner, Allen B. Downey, and Chris Meyers)

Corresponding author: p.wentworth@ru.ac.za

Source repository is at https://code.launchpad.net/~thinkcspy-rle-team/thinkcspy/thinkcspy3-rle

For offline use, download a zip file of the html or a pdf version (the pdf is updated less often) from http://www.ict.ru.ac.za/Resources/cspw/thinkcspy3/

• Search Page
• Copyright Notice
• Foreword
• Preface
• Preface-3 This Rhodes Local Edition (RLE) of the book
• Contributor List
• Chapter 1 The way of the program
• Chapter 2 Variables, expressions, and statements
• Chapter 3 Hello, little turtles!
• Chapter 4 Functions
• Chapter 5 Conditionals
• Chapter 6 Fruitful functions
• Chapter 7 Iteration
• Chapter 8 Strings
• Chapter 9 Tuples
• Chapter 10 Event handling
• Chapter 11 Lists
• Chapter 12 Modules
• Chapter 13 Files
• Chapter 14 List Algorithms
• Chapter 15 Classes and Objects - the Basics
• Chapter 16 Classes and Objects - Digging a little deeper
• Chapter 17 PyGame
• Chapter 18 Recursion
• Chapter 19 Exceptions
• Chapter 20 Dictionaries
• Chapter 21 Even more OOP
• Chapter 22 Collections of Objects
• Chapter 23 Inheritance
• Chapter 24 Linked Lists
• Chapter 25 Stacks
• Chapter 26 Queues
• Chapter 27 Trees
• Appendix A Debugging
• Appendix B An odds-and-ends Workbook
• Appendix C Configuring Ubuntu for Python Development
• Appendix D Customizing and Contributing to the Book
• Appendix E Some Tips, Tricks, and Common Errors
• GNU Free Document License

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