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How to program / Course Guidebook computer science concepts and Python exercises

Keyser, John. (Author). Teaching Company. (Added Author).

Summary: Broaden your horizons with a new language--Python. An award-winning professor teaches you a versatile computer code that's easy to learn and easy to use.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781629972725
  • ISBN: 162997272X
  • Physical Description: DVD/videorecording
    videodisc
    4 videodiscs (ca. 720 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 guidebook (315 p. ; 22 cm.).
  • Publisher: Chantilly, VA : Teaching Co., c2016.

Content descriptions

General Note:
"Course no. 1174"
Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes glossary, Python commands, Python modules and packages used, and bibliography.
Formatted Contents Note: Course Guidebook + 4 discs Lecture 1 -- What is programming? Why Python? Lecture 2 -- Variables: operations and input/output Lecture 3 -- Conditionals and Boolean expressions Lecture 4 -- Basic program development and testing Lecture 5 -- Loops and iterations Lecture 6 -- Files and strings disc 2 Lecture 7 -- Operations with lists Lecture 8 -- Top-down design of a data analysis program Lecture 9 -- Functions and abstraction Lecture 10 -- Parameter passing, scope, and mutable data Lecture 11 -- Error types, systematic debugging, exceptions Lecture 12 -- Python standard library, modules, packages disc. 3 Lecture 13 -- Game design with functions Lecture 14 -- Bottom-up design, turtle graphics, robotics Lecture 15 -- Event-driven programming Lecture 16 -- Visualizing data and creating simulations Lecture 17 -- Classers and object-oriented programming Lecture 18 -- Objects with inheritance and polymorphism disc 4 Lecture 19 -- Data structures: stack, queue, dictionary, set Lecture 20 -- Algorithms: searching and sorting Lecture 21 -- Recursion and running times Lecture 22 -- Graphs and trees Lecture 23 -- Graph search and a word game Lecture 24 -- Parallel computing is here.
Participant or Performer Note: Lecturer: John Keyser, Texas A&M University.
System Details Note:
Guidebook + DVDs
Subject: Computers
Computer programming
Genre: Guidebooks & Handbooks
DVD-Video discs.

Available copies

  • 1 of 2 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
  • 0 of 1 copy available at Terrace Public Library.

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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Holdable? Status Due Date
Terrace Public Library DVD 005.133 KEY (Text) 35151000671891 Adult Non-fiction DVD Not holdable Lost 2023-10-06

Summary: Broaden your horizons with a new language--Python. An award-winning professor teaches you a versatile computer code that's easy to learn and easy to use.

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