Fundamentals of Python: First Programs

In FUNDAMENTALS OF PYTHON: FIRST PROGRAMS, respected author Kenneth A. Lambert presents all of the important topics for a CS1 course while preparing the reader to study additional languages. The book uses the Python programming language, which is both easy to learn for beginners and scales well to advanced applications. Lambert’s back-to-basics approach will be engaging for the reader bringing relevance of the concepts and applications from the text to the real world.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Software Development, Data Types, and Expressions
Chapter 3: Control Statements
Chapter 4: Strings and Text Files
Chapter 5: Lists and Dictionaries
Chapter 6: Design with Functions
Chapter 7: Simple Graphics and Image Processing
Chapter 8: Design with Classes
Chapter 9: Graphical User Interfaces
Chapter 10: MultiThreading, Networks, and Client/Server Programming

Appendix A: Python Resources
Appendix B: Installing the Images Library
Appendix C: The API for Image Processing
Appendix D: Transition from Python to Java and C++