Any scientific or technical discipline requires programming skills. Python is the ideal first programming language, and this book is the best guide to learning it.

Princeton University faculty members Robert Sedgwick, Kevin Wayne, and Robert Dondero have written an accessible, interdisciplinary course in Python programming that covers important and real-world cases of its application, not abstract examples. The authors demonstrate the tools students need to learn programming in a natural, fun, and creative way.

This guide focuses on the most useful features of the Python language and introduces programming with examples useful to every science, engineering, and information technology student. .

Book Features

Basic elements of programming: variables, assignment operators, built-in data types, conditional expressions, loops, arrays, input and output, including graphics and sound.

Functions, modules, and libraries: organizing programs into components that allow independent debugging, support, and reuse.

Object-oriented programming and data abstraction: objects, modules, encapsulation, etc.

Algorithms and data structures: sorting and searching algorithms, stacks, queues and symbol tables.

All examples from the fields of applied mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology and computer science are compatible with Python versions 2 and 3.