Introduction to Computation and Programming Using Python
A Nonfiction, Technology, Programming book. The key to using abstraction effectively in programming is finding a...
This book introduces students with little or no prior programming experience to the art of computational problem solving using Python and various Python libraries, including PyLab. It provides students with skills that will enable them to make productive use of computational techniques, including some of the tools and techniques of...
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- Pages: 268 pages
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This book is written in a relatively dense fashion, but when read in conjunction with the MITx 6.00.1x course at edX, it works well. It helped me get a better grasp of some of the key concepts from the 6.00.1x video lectures. I'm enjoying this book, and the moreso because I am now using it in conjunction with the edX course that it accompanies. The course is excellent and the book has a sufficiently entertaining style that makes the foothills of learning to program less tedious than they might otherwise be. An introduction to sotware engineering and data science for beginners, who are generally assumed to be non-specialist engineering or science students with a background in algebra and the scientific method. Data science is maybe taking it too far: really it's basic computational statistical analytics. Both halves of the book use Python....
