Spronck P. The Coder’s Apprentice. Learning Programming with Python 3

Maastricht: 2017. — 390 p.The goal of this book is to teach anyone how to create useful programs in Python. It should be usable by secondary school students, and university and college students for whom computer programming is not naturally incorporated in their course program. Its aim is to give anyone the means to become proficient in programming, and as such get prepared to perform well in the 21st. century job market. This book is meant to be used as a course. It is not meant as a Python language reference. The chapters of this book are written to be studied in sequential order.When studying this book, you should have a computer with Python installed at hand. The book contains many small and larger exercises, and you should do all of those while studying. There is no way that you will learn how to program if you skip the exercises. Many of the code snippets in this book – in particular all the answers to the exercises and all the slightly longer pieces of code – have a file name listed as a caption. You can download this code and load it immediately in the editor that you are using if you so wish.Note that this book will not try to teach you to be a professional programmer. It teaches the initial skills that any professional programmer also acquired during his or her education. After teaching those initial skills, the book ends. For most people, this is enough to deal with programming tasks they encounter, and provides a sufficient basis to learn more if there is a need.