Get Programming: Learn to Code with Python

  • 9h 17m 46s
  • Ana Bell
  • Manning Publications
  • 2020

Get Programming: Learn to Code with Python introduces you to the world of writing computer programs without drowning you in confusing jargon or theory that make getting started harder than it should be. Filled with practical examples and step-by-step lessons using the easy-on-the-brain Python language, this audiobook will get you programming in no time!

About the technology:

Let's face it. The only way to learn computer programming is to do it. Whether you want to skill-up for your next job interview or just get a few pet projects done, programming can be an amazing tool. This audiobook is designed especially for beginners, helping them learn to program hands on, step by step, project by project. It's time to get programming!

About the audiobook:

Get Programming: Learn to Code with Python teaches you the basics of computer programming using the Python language. In this exercise-driven audiobook, you'll be doing something as you work through 38 compact lessons and seven engaging capstone projects. By exploring the crystal-clear explanations, exercises that check your understanding as you go, and tips for what to try next, you'll start thinking like a programmer in no time.

What's inside:

  • Programming skills you can use in any language
  • Learning to code - no experience required
  • Learning Python, the language for beginners
  • Dozens of exercises and examples help you learn by doing

In this Audiobook

  • Lesson 1 - Why Should You Learn How to Program?
  • Lesson 2 - Basic Principles of Learning a Programming Language
  • Lesson 3 - Introducing Python: A Programming Language
  • Lesson 4 - Variables and Expressions: Giving Names and Values to Things
  • Lesson 5 - Object Types and Statements of Code
  • Lesson 6 - Capstone Project: Your First Python Program—Convert Hours to Minutes
  • Lesson 7 - Introducing String Objects: Sequences of Characters
  • Lesson 8 - Advanced String Operations
  • Lesson 9 - Simple Error Messages
  • Lesson 10 - Tuple Objects: Sequences of Any Kind of Object
  • Lesson 11 - Interacting with the User
  • Lesson 12 - Capstone Project: Name Mashup
  • Lesson 13 - Introducing Decisions in Programs
  • Lesson 14 - Making More-Complicated Decisions
  • Lesson 15 - Capstone Project: Choose Your Own Adventure
  • Lesson 16 - Repeating Tasks with Loops
  • Lesson 17 - Customizing Loops
  • Lesson 18 - Repeating Tasks While Conditions Hold
  • Lesson 19 - Capstone Project: Scrabble, Art Edition
  • Lesson 20 - Building Programs to Last
  • Lesson 21 - Achieving Modularity and Abstraction with Functions
  • Lesson 22 - Advanced Operations with Functions
  • Lesson 23 - Capstone Project: Analyze Your Friends
  • Lesson 24 - Mutable and Immutable Objects
  • Lesson 25 - Working with Lists
  • Lesson 26 - Advanced Operations with Lists
  • Lesson 27 - Dictionaries as Maps Between Objects
  • Lesson 28 - Aliasing and Copying Lists and Dictionaries
  • Lesson 29 - Capstone Project: Document Similarity
  • Lesson 30 - Making Your Own Object Types
  • Lesson 31 - Creating a Class for an Object Type
  • Lesson 32 - Working with Your Own Object Types
  • Lesson 33 - Customizing Classes
  • Lesson 34 - Capstone Project: Card Game
  • Lesson 35 - Useful Libraries
  • Lesson 36 - Testing and Debugging Your Programs
  • Lesson 37 - A Library for Graphical User Interfaces
  • Lesson 38 - Capstone Project: Game of Tag
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