The Book focuses on computational problem solving from Chapter 1, this text provides numerous hands-on exercises and examples, each chapter ending with a significant-size program demonstrating the step-by-step process of program development, testing and debugging. A final chapter includes the history of computing, starting with Charles Babbage, containing over 65 historical images. An end-of-book Python 3 Programmers’ Reference is also included for quick lookup of Python details.

Introduction Data and Expressions Control Structures Lists Functions Objects and Their use Modular Design Text Files Dictionaries and Sets Object-Oriented Programming Recursion Computing and Its Developments