Starting Out with Python

Brief Table of Contents

• Introduction to Computers and Programming
• Input, Processing, and Output
• Decision Structures and Boolean Logic
• Repetition Structures
• Functions
• Files and Exceptions
• Lists and Tuples
• More About Strings
• Dictionaries and Sets
• Classes and Object-Oriented Programming
• Inheritance
• Recursion
• GUI Programming
• Database Programming

Appendix A: Installing Python

Appendix B: Introduction to IDLE

Appendix C: The ASCII Character Set

Appendix D: Predefined Named Colors

Appendix E: More About the import Statement

Appendix F: Formatting Numeric Output with the format() Function

Appendix G: Installing Modules with the pip Utility

Appendix H: Answers to Checkpoints