Python by Example
Learning to Program in 150 Challenges
Python is today’s fastest growing programming language. This engaging and refreshingly
different guide breaks down the skills into clear step-by-step chunks and explains the the-
ory using brief easy-to-understand language. Rather than bamboozling readers with pages
of mind-numbing technical jargon, this book includes 150 practical challenges, putting
the power in the reader’s hands. Through creating programs to solve these challenges the
reader will quickly progress from mastering the basics to confidently using subroutines,
a graphical user interface, and linking to external text, csv and SQL files. This book is
perfect for anyone who wants to learn how to program with Python. In particular, students
starting out in computer science and teachers who want to improve their confidence in
Python will find here a set of ready-made challenges for classroom use.
NICHOLA LACEY is Director of Nichola Wilkin Ltd. She is a trusted source for
teaching resources, having sold thousands of resources to schools around the world. As one
of the most popular authors on TES, Nichola enjoys an extremely high review rating with
hundreds of thousands of downloads. She was a programmer before moving into corporate
training and then retraining as a teacher, and she gained a unique skill set of programming
and practical classroom experience after being promoted to head of computer science in a
private boys’ school.
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