• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Keywords
• Syntax
• Chapter 1 An Introduction to Python
  • 1.1 Introduction
  • 1.2 Origin of a Computer
  • 1.3 Python Editor – Navigation
  • 1.4 Computer Systems
  • 1.5 Program Debugging: Syntax Errors vs. Semantic Errors
  • 1.6 Procedural vs. Object-Oriented Programming
  • 1.7 Python Programming Language
  • 1.8 The IDLE Python Development Environment
  • 1.9 Python Programming Language Computational Thinking
  • 1.10 What is an Algorithm?
  • 1.11 Python Data Types
    • 1.11.1 Numeric Data Types
    • 1.11.2 Setting the Data Type
    • 1.11.3 Setting the Specific Data Type
  • 1.12 Escape Sequences
  • Review Questions
• Chapter 2 Python Operators & Expressions, Strings, Lists
  • 2.1 Python Expression
  • 2.2 Python Operator
    • 2.2.1 Python Arithmetic Operators
    • 2.2.2 Python Assignment Operators
    • 2.2.3 Python Comparison Operators
    • 2.2.4 Python Logical Operators
    • 2.2.5 Python Identity Operators
    • 2.2.6 Python Membership Operators
    • 2.2.7 Python Bitwise Operators
  • 2.3 Variables and Assignment
  • 2.4 Strings
    • 2.4.1 String Literals
    • 2.4.2 String Concatenation
    • 2.4.3 String Length
    • 2.4.4 String Methods
    • 2.4.5 Strings
    • 2.4.6 String Formatted Output
    • 2.4.7 Multiple Values
    • 2.4.8 Formatted Output
  • 2.5 List
    • 2.5.1 Python List Type
  • 2.6 Objects and Classes
  • 2.7 Python Standard Library
  • Review Questions
• Chapter 3 Imperative Programming
  • 3.1 Introduction to Imperative Programming
  • 3.2 Function
  • 3.3 Types of Functions
  • 3.4 Python - Built-in Modules
  • 3.5 print() Function
  • 3.6 eval() Function
  • 3.7 User-Defined Function & Assignments -Parameter Passing
    • 3.7.1 Calling a Function
    • 3.7.2 Function without Arguments
    • 3.7.3 Passing Parameter to Function
    • 3.7.4 The Return Statement in Function
    • 3.7.5 Default Argument Values
    • 3.7.6 Global and Local Variables in Functions
  • 3.8 Advantages of User-Defined Functions
  • Review Questions
• Chapter 4 Python File Handling
  • 4.1 Files and Folders
  • 4.2 Python Files
  • 4.3 Text Data
    • 4.3.1 Opening a File
    • 4.3.2 Writing Text to a File
    • 4.3.3 Reading a Text from a File
    • 4.3.4 Closing a File
  • 4.4 File Handling Functions
    • 4.4.1 Opening a File
    • 4.4.2 Reading a File
    • 4.4.3 Create a New File
    • 4.4.4 Writing into a File
    • 4.4.5 Closing a File
    • 4.4.6 Delete a File
  • 4.5 Exception Handling (Errors)
    • 4.5.1 Raise an Exception
  • Review Questions
• Chapter 5 Python Control Structures
  • 5.1 Execution Control Structures
  • 5.2 Decision Control
    • 5.2.1 The if Statement
    • 5.2.2 if-else
    • 5.2.3 Nested if
    • 5.2.4 if-elif-else
  • 5.3 for Loop
  • 5.4 Iteration Patterns – Two-Dimensional List
  • 5.5 Nested for Loop
  • 5.6 while Loop
  • 5.7 More Loop Patterns
  • 5.8 Additional Iteration Control Statements
    • 5.8.1 Break
    • 5.8.2 Continue
    • 5.8.3 Pass
  • Review Questions
• Chapter 6 Python Modules
  • 6.1 Container
  • 6.2 Randomness - Module
    • 6.2.1 Random randint() Method
    • 6.2.2 Dictionaries
  • 6.3 Other Built-in Container Types
  • 6.4 Character Encoding and Strings
  • Review Questions
• Chapter 7 Python Oops
  • 7.1 Python Namespaces
  • 7.2 Encapsulation in Functions
  • 7.3 Global vs Local Namespaces
  • 7.4 Exception Flow Control
  • 7.5 Modules as Namespaces
  • Review Questions
• Chapter 8 Python Programming Practicals
  • 8.1 To Convert the Given Temperature from   Fahrenheit to Celsius and Vice Versa Depending upon User’s Choice
  • 8.2 To Calculate Total Marks, Percentage and Grade of a Student
  • 8.3 To Find the Area of Rectangle, Square, Circle and Triangle using Functions
  • 8.4 To Display the First n Terms of Fibonacci Series
  • 8.5 To Find Factorial of the Given Number
  • 8.6 To Count the Number of Even and Odd Numbers from n Numbers
  • 8.7 To Calculate the Number of Upper and Lower Case Letters for the String
  • 8.8 To Check the Given String is Palindrome or Not
  • 8.9 To Find Sum of the Entire Items in a Dictionary
  • 8.10 To Construct the Pattern, using a Nested Loop
  • 8.11 Simple Analysis Listing
• References
• Glossary
• Test Yourself
• Worksheets
• Question Bank
• Model Question Papers
• Index

Dr. A. Chitra is Professor and Head, Department of Computer Applications, PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore. She holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science and is actively involved in teaching and research.