The principles of programming are outlined, with the help of which the reader will acquire the skills of algorithmic problem solving in Python, even without programming experience. Provides a brief introduction to computers and programming. Considered input, processing and output of data, control structures and Boolean logic, structures with repetition, functions, files and exceptions, lists and tuples, string data, dictionaries and sets, classes and OOP, inheritance, recursion, interface programming, functional programming, etc. .

To facilitate understanding of the essence of algorithms, flowcharts, pseudocode and other tools are widely used. A large number of concise and practical example programs are provided. Each chapter offers thematic problems with a step-by-step analysis of their solution.

The fifth edition added a chapter on database programming.

For beginner programmers, high school students and first-year students