Hello world! : computer programming for kids and other beginners

Sande, Warren (Author). Sande, Carter. (Added Author).

Summary: Presents a guide for beginners on the fundamentals of computer programming using the Python language.

Record details

ISBN: 1933988495 (pbk.)
ISBN: 9781933988498 (pbk.)
Physical Description: xxiv, 406 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
print
Publisher: Greenwich, Conn. : Manning, c2009.

Content descriptions

General Note:

Includes index.

Formatted Contents Note:

1 Getting Started 1 -- 2 Remember This-Memory and Variables 14 -- 3 Basic Math 26 -- 4 Types of Data 38 -- 5 Input 44 -- 6 GUIs-Graphical User Interfaces 52 -- 7 Decisions, Decisions 62 -- 8 Loop the Loop 74 -- 9 Just for You-Comments 89 -- 10 Game Time 94 -- 11 Nested and Variable Loops 99 -- 12 Collecting Things Together-Lists 112 -- 13 Functions 131 -- 14 Objects 146 -- 15 Modules 164 -- 16 Graphics 174 -- 17 Sprites and Collision Detection 202 -- 18 A New Kind of Input-Events 217 -- 19 Sound 239 -- 20 More GUIs 254 -- 21 Print Formatting and Strings 273 -- 22 File Input and Output 290 -- 23 Take a Chance-Randomness 313 -- 24 Computer Simulations 336 -- 25 What's Next? 358.