The Coder’s Apprentice - Spronck

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The Coder's Apprentice Learning programming with python 3. Pieter Spronck The Coder's Apprentice Learning programming with python 3. Pieter Spronck Version November 11, 2017. Copyright 2016, 2017 Pieter Spronck . Permission is granted to copy, distribute, and/or modify this document under the terms of the Cre- ative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial Unported License, which is available at https: The original form of this book is LATEX source code. Compiling this LATEX source has the effect of gen- erating a device-independent representation of a textbook, which can be converted to other formats and printed. The LATEX source for this book will (at some point in time) be available from net/pythonbook The latest version of this book will always be available from pythonbook. Preface Computational technology causes the world to change rapidly. Almost 30 years ago I got my first job as a computer programmer. At the time, only larger companies with a big administrative overload used computers.

Many thanks to Allen B. Downey, who wrote the excellent Python 2 book Think Python: How to Think Like a Computer Scientist. I myself learned Python programming from his book, and used the LATEX template that he graciously provided as the basis for this book. Downey recently released a Python 3 version of his book. If you are already familiar with

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