Python For Kids For Dummies

Book Name: Python For Kids For Dummies
Author: Brendan Scott
Publisher: For Dummies; 1st edition
ISBN-10, 13: 978-1119093107,1119093104
Year: 2015
Pages: 320 pages
Language: English
File size: 5 MB
File format: PDF,EPUB

Python For Kids For Dummies Pdf Book Description:

Hi! Welcome to the book. You’re going on a tour of all things Python. If you join me and code along with the projects, you’ll have your basic Python programming wings by the end of the book. Everything in this book you need to know by doing typing in the code or, better yet, thinking up the code before reading what I’ve done. This book walks you through all the parts you have to know about Python programming. You get examples. I talk about planning programs. And I help link you with the broader Python community so that you can head out there after mastering the projects in this book. In this project, you’re introduced to Python: where it’s used and what it’s used for. I explain the two current versions of Python. This book is focused on Python 2.7 and I explain why. With my help during this chapter, you install a copy of Python 2.7 (if you don’t already have it installed) and fire it up. I also tell you how to stop once you’ve started. This project also shows you how to get Python’s documentation, both built in to Python and online.

I give you ways to search online for answers to your Python problems, just in case you’ve never searched the Internet before. You also read about the Python community, which is one place you can go for help or new ideas. All that, but no actual programming? No worries. Actual programming starts in Project 2. Python is a programming language written by a person called Guido van Rossum in the 1990s. Programming languages allow you to control what a computer does and the way it does it. That title is just to impress your parents. (I hope they’re not reading this part. But look: If they don’t see that title, tell them that this book has a pedagogical approach ped-uh-goj-i-cul. It means education or teaching.) The point of this book is to give you a chunk of information about the programming concepts that you need to program in Python. The book is for you — a kid who can learn Python. Thorough, yes. Will I include everything? No way. Many aspects of Python have lots of options. If I took you through all the possibilities of each option, you’d fall asleep (or throw this book out the window). If you do either of those things, then you won’t be learning. As you read, remember that I’ve tried to introduce you to enough information so you can be a Python programmer, but not so much that you’d need superhuman powers to get through it. Expand on your own using the documentation and help.