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Introduction to Computer Science, part 2

00 Preliminaries

A Course in Computational Thinking
Installing Python and IDLE
Installing an Interactive Development Environment (IDE)

01 Objects

Objects
Magic Methods
References to Objects
Project: Overlapping Appointments

02 Inheritance

Class Hierarchies and Inheritance
Notifiers

03 Recursion

Recursion in Object-Oriented Programs
Refactoring Repetitive Code

04 Aliasing

Aliasing on Purpose

05 Guess and Check

Recursive Guess and Check

06 Binary

Bit Twiddling
Negative Binary Numbers
What the Hex?

07 Functional

Sometimes Functions are Values

08 Assembler

Two Pass Algorithms
Regular expressions

Appendices

Glossary of Terms
Appendix – What for?
Appendix – Magic Methods
Style Guide for Python Programs
Running Python code in an IDE or at the command line
File paths
How Python Works

Repository
Open issue

Index

By Michal Young

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