Practical Programming: An Introduction to Computer Science Using Python 3.6

by Paul Gries, Jennifer Campbell, Jason Montojo

Classroom-tested by tens of thousands of students, this new edition of the bestselling intro to programming book is for anyone who wants to understand computer science. Learn about design, algorithms, testing, and debugging. Discover the fundamentals of programming with Python 3.6--a language that's used in millions of devices. Write programs to solve real-world problems, and come away with everything you need to produce quality code. This edition has been updated to use the new language features in Python 3.6.

Genres: Programming, Computer Science, Software

688 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 6, 2017

Reviews

[Takenbythebard · Rating 3 out of 5]

The first few chapters are great but then around the halfway point, you get to more beefy code snippets and topics, and the examples just breeze by. You go from writing 10 lines of code to 30 and the explanations just stop. So I gave up halfway and will probably revisit some of the topics or just get a better book to look over the missing stuff. Also, why do math textbooks have 100 practice problems and computer science books have 10 practice problems? Its probably cause this book is used for a course at UofT but that doesn't make it useful for people not in the course and just want to get it for fun. Sigh.

[Jorge DeFlon · Rating 3 out of 5]

Un libro introductorio a la computación y al lenguaje python.
Sencillo, directo, básico.
Cubre casi todos los temas básicos que debe cubrir un libro de este tipo: tipos de datos, control de flujo, componentes, clases.
Ni cubre aspectos más avanzados como aplicaciones web, web services, frameworks, etc.
El capítulo de base de datos se basa en saliste y es extremadamente básico.

[Erdem Yiğitolu · Rating 5 out of 5]

It is a great book for people who want to dive into world of programming. Python language is programming language is fast to learn and easy to use for many applications. The book covers a lot of subjects in a comprehencive manner.