Learn Python the hard way

Learn Python The Hard Way is a book I wrote to teach programming to people who do not know how to code. It assumes you are probably a power user of your computer, and then takes you from nothing to programming simple games. After reading my book you should be ready for many of the other programming books out there. Spotting Differences......Page 11 License......Page 12 Mac OSX......Page 13 Windows......Page 14 Linux......Page 15 Warnings For Beginners......Page 16 What You Should See......Page 19 Extra Credit......Page 20 Extra Credit......Page 21 Exercise 3: Numbers And Math......Page 23 Extra Credit......Page 24 What You Should See......Page 25 Extra Credit......Page 26 What You Should See......Page 27 Extra Credit......Page 28 What You Should See......Page 29 Extra Credit......Page 30 Extra Credit......Page 31 Extra Credit......Page 33 Extra Credit......Page 35 What You Should See......Page 37 Extra Credit......Page 38 Extra Credit......Page 39 Extra Credit......Page 41 Hold Up! Features Have Another Name......Page 43 Extra Credit......Page 44 What You Should See......Page 45 Extra Credit......Page 46 Exercise 15: Reading Files......Page 47 Extra Credit......Page 48 Exercise 16: Reading And Writing Files......Page 49 Extra Credit......Page 50 What You Should See......Page 51 Extra Credit......Page 52 Exercise 18: Names, Variables, Code, Functions......Page 53 Extra Credit......Page 54 What You Should See......Page 57 Extra Credit......Page 58 What You Should See......Page 59 Extra Credit......Page 60 Exercise 21: Functions Can Return Something......Page 61 Extra Credit......Page 62 What You are Learning......Page 63 Exercise 23: Read Some Code......Page 65 Exercise 24: More Practice......Page 67 Extra Credit......Page 68 Exercise 25: Even More Practice......Page 69 What You Should See......Page 70 Extra Credit......Page 71 Exercise 26: Congratulations, Take A Test!......Page 73 The Truth Terms......Page 75 The Truth Tables......Page 76 Exercise 28: Boolean Practice......Page 77 What You Should See......Page 78 Extra Credit......Page 79 What You Should See......Page 81 Extra Credit......Page 82 Exercise 30: Else And If......Page 83 Extra Credit......Page 84 Exercise 31: Making Decisions......Page 85 What You Should See......Page 86 Extra Credit......Page 87 Exercise 32: Loops And Lists......Page 89 Extra Credit......Page 90 Exercise 33: While Loops......Page 93 Extra Credit......Page 94 Exercise 34: Accessing Elements Of Lists......Page 95 Extra Credit......Page 96 Exercise 35: Branches and Functions......Page 97 What You Should See......Page 98 Extra Credit......Page 99 Tips For Debugging......Page 101 Homework......Page 102 Keywords......Page 103 String Escapes Sequences......Page 104 Operators......Page 105 Extra Credit......Page 107 Exercise 39: Doing Things To Lists......Page 109 What You Should See......Page 110 Extra Credit......Page 111 Exercise 40: Dictionaries, Oh Lovely Dictionaries......Page 113 What You Should See......Page 114 Extra Credit......Page 115 Exercise 41: A Room With A View Of A Bear With A Broadsword......Page 117 What You Should See......Page 120 Extra Credit......Page 121 Exercise 42: Getting Classy......Page 123 What You Should See......Page 126 Extra Credit......Page 127 Exercise 43: You Make A Game......Page 129 Class Style......Page 131 Evaluate Your Game......Page 132 Exercise 45: Is-A, Has-A, Objects, and Classes......Page 135 How This Looks In Code......Page 136 Skeleton Contents: Linux/OSX......Page 139 Testing Your Setup......Page 140 Required Quiz......Page 141 Writing A Test Case......Page 143 Testing Guidelines......Page 144 Extra Credit......Page 145 Our Game Lexicon......Page 147 What You Should Test......Page 149 Extra Credit......Page 150 Match And Peek......Page 151 The Sentence Grammar......Page 152 Extra Credit......Page 154 Implementing A Feature List......Page 155 Tips On Working The List......Page 156 Implement The Changes......Page 157 Extra Credit......Page 159 Next Steps......Page 161 Advice From An Old Programmer......Page 163 Indices and tables......Page 165