Benefits of this Interactive Textbook — How to Think like a Computer Scientist: Interactive Edition

This interactive book is a product of the Runestone Interactive Project at Luther College, led by Brad Miller and David Ranum. There have been many contributors to the project. Our thanks especially to the following: This book is based on the Original work by: Jeffrey Elkner, Allen B. Downey, and Chris MeyersActivecode based on SkulptCodelens based on Online Python TutorMany contributions from the CSLearning4U research group at Georgia Tech.ACM-SIGCSE for the special projects grant that funded our student Isaac Dontje Lindell for the summer of 2013.NSF The Runestone Interactive tools are open source and we encourage you to contact us, or grab a copy from GitHub if you would like to use them to write your own resources.

Composing Programs Building Skills in Python — Building Skills Books 5.1 documentation How do you learn Python? By doing a series of exercises, each of which adds a single new feature of the language. This 450+ page book has 42 chapters that will help you build Python programming skills through a series of exercises. This book includes six projects from straight-forward to sophisticated that will help solidify your Python skills. The 2.6 edition was significantly revised and expanded to cover Python 2.6 and some elements of Python 3.1. The current release has benefitted from a great deal of support from readers who sent detailed lists of errors and suggestions. Professional programmers who need to learn Python are this book’s primary audience. Since Python is simple, we can address newbie programmers who don’t have deep experience in a number of other languages.