Python Basics: A Self-Teaching Introduction [Paperback]

This book is designed for use as aprimary introduction to Python and can be used as an introductory text or as aresource for professionals in industry. The book has been divided into foursections. The first section deals with the language fundamentals, primarily theprocedural part of the language, the second introduces the object-oriented paradigms,the third section deals with data structures, and the last is devoted toadvanced topics like handling multi-dimensional arrays using NumPy andvisualization using Matplotlib. Regular expressions and multi-threading havebeen introduced in the appendices.

FEATURES

Includes sections dedicated to data structures

Offers in-depth treatment of topics such as classes, inheritance, BST, andNumPy

Introduces topics like Matplotlib and PIL

Contains exercises for practice and a review of essential programming concepts

1: Introductionto Python

2: Python Objects

3: Conditional Statements

4: Looping

5: Functions

6:Iterations, Generators, and Comprehensions

7: File Handling

8: Strings

9: Introductionto Object Oriented Paradigm

10: Classes and Objects

11: Inheritance

12: Operator Overloading

13: Exception Handling

14: Introduction to Data Structures

15: Stacks andQueues

16: Linked Lists

17: Binary Search Trees

18: Introduction to NumPY

19:Introduction to Matplotlib

20: Introduction to Image Processing

Appendix A: Multithreading in Python

Appendix B: Regular Expressions

Appendix C:Exercises for Practice: Programming Questions

Appendix D: Problems forPractice: Multiple Choice Questions

Appendix E: Answer to the Multiple ChoiceQuestions

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