The Coder’s Apprentice - Learning Programming with Python 3

Abstract

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. Computers are wonderful machines. While most machines (cars, television sets, microwaves) have a specific purpose which they excel at accomplishing, computers are purposeless machines that can be taught to accomplish anything. The power to make a computer do your bidding is called “programming.”