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By Michael Dawson

ISBN-10: 1435455002

ISBN-13: 9781435455009

When you are new to programming with Python and are searhing for a superb advent, this is often the publication for you. built by way of computing device technological know-how teachers, books within the "for absolutely the beginner" sequence educate the foundations of programming via easy online game construction. you are going to collect the abilities that you simply desire for useful Python programming functions and may find out how those abilities should be positioned to take advantage of in real-world situations. in the course of the chapters, you'll find code samples that illustrate recommendations awarded. on the finish of every bankruptcy, you can find a whole online game that demonstrates the foremost rules within the bankruptcy, a precis of the bankruptcy, and a suite of demanding situations that checks your newfound wisdom. by the point you end this publication, you'll be good versed in Python and have the capacity to practice the fundamental programming ideas you've realized to the subsequent programming language you take on.

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For example, in most languages (Python included) variable names start with a lowercase letter. Another tradition is to avoid using an underscore as the first character of your variable names. Names that begin with an underscore have special meaning in Python. • Keep the length in check. This may seem to go against the first guideline: Choose descriptive names. Isn’t personal_checking_account_balance a great variable name? Maybe not. Long variable names can lead to problems. They can make statements hard to read.

4 The strings on the screen appear differently than in the program code. ") print("\nThis string " + "may not " + "seem terr" + "ibly impressive. " + " Now are you" + " impressed? ") print("\nIf you really like a string, you can repeat it. print("who doesn't like pie? That's right, nobody. ") Concatenating Strings Concatenating strings means joining them together to create a whole new string. ", together to form a new, larger string. It’s pretty intuitive. It’s like adding the strings together using the same symbol you’ve always used for adding numbers.

It makes noise! The next statement in the program print("\a") sounds the system bell of your computer. It does this through the escape sequence, \a, which represents the system bell character. Every time you print it, the bell rings. You can print a string with just this sequence, as I have, or you can put it inside a longer string. You can even use the sequence several times to ring the bell more than once. 24 Python Programming for the Absolute Beginner, Third Edition A few escape sequences only work as advertised if you run your program directly from the operating system and not through IDLE.

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