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amazon The Self-taught Programmer ____________________________ Cory Althoff Part I Introduction to Programming

Chapter 1. Introduction

How This Book Is Structured Endgame First The Self-taught Advantage Why You Should Program Sticking With It How This Book is Formatted Technologies Used In This Book Vocabulary Challenge

Chapter 2. Getting Started

What is Programming What is Python Installing Python Troubleshooting The Interactive Shell Saving Programs Running Example Programs Vocabulary Challenge Examples Comments Printing Lines Keywords Spacing Data Types Constants and Variables Syntax Errors and Exceptions Arithmetic Operators Comparison Operators Logical Operators Conditional Statements Statements Vocabulary Challenge

Chapter 4. Functions

Representing Concepts Defining Functions Parameters Passing Parameters pass Nested Functions Scope Built-in Functions Exception Handling Docstrings Challenge

Chapter 5. Containers

Lists Tuples Dictionaries Challenge

Chapter 6. String Manipulation

Triple Strings Indexes Strings are Immutable Methods Change Case format split join replace index in Escaping Strings Newline Concatenation String Multiplication

Chapter 7. Loops

For Loops While Loops Break Continue Nested Loops Challenge

Chapter 8. Modules

Importing Built-in Modules Importing Modules Challenge

Chapter 9. Files

Working With Files Using with Reading Files CSV Files Challenge

Chapter 10. Bringing It All Together

Hangman Challenge

Chapter 11. Practice

Exercises Read Getting Help Other Resources

Part II Introduction to Object-oriented Programming

Chapter 12. Programming Paradigms

State Imperative Programming Functional Programming Object-oriented Programming Challenge

Chapter 13. The Four Pillars of Object-oriented Programming

Inheritance Polymorphism Abstraction Encapsulation Composition Challenge

Chapter 14. More Object-oriented Programming

How Variables Work is None Classes Are Objects Class Variables vs. Instance Variables Private variables Overriding Methods Super Overriding Built-in Methods Challenge

Chapter 15. Bringing It All Together

Cards Deck Player Game War

Chapter 16. Practice

Exercises Read

Part III Introduction to Programming Tools

Chapter 17. Bash

Finding Bash Relative vs Absolute Paths Navigating Flags vim Touch View A File With less Users Permissions Bash Programs Processes Hidden Files Environmental Variables $PATH pipes cat Recent Commands Jump Around Tab Complete Wildcard Other Tools The One Week Challenge

Chapter 18. Regular Expressions

Setup Simple Match Ignore Case Only Return Matched Match Beginning and End Match Multiple Characters Repetition Range Escaping Regular Expressions in Python Zen Challenge

Chapter 19. Package Managers

Packages Apt-get Homebrew OneGet pip Challenge

Chapter 20. Version Control

Repositories Getting Started Pushing and Pulling Pushing Example Pulling Example Reverting Versions diff The Other Pull Request Learning More Challenge

Chapter 21. SQLite

NoSQL vs. SQL Getting Started Data Types Create a Table Constraints Query Data or Query and Query Count Communicating with Databases Challenge

Chapter 22. Bringing It All Together

HTML Scrape Google News Challenge

Chapter 23. Practice

Exercises Read

Part IV Introduction to Computer Science

Data Structures & Algorithms

What Are Algorithms & Data Structures? Big O Notation Modulo Bubble Sort Sequential Search Binary Search Recursion Abstract Data Types Nodes Stacks Linked Lists Arrays Binary Trees Breadth First & Depth First Search Hash Tables Challenge

Chapter X. Relational Database Design

Normalization Referential Integrity Indexing Challenge

Chapter X. Computer Architecture

How Your Computer Works

I/O

How Programming Languages Work How Your Operating System Works Challenge

Chapter X. Network Programming

Client-Server Model TCP/IP Challenge

Chapter #TK. Bringing It All Together

Create a Server Create a Client Challenge

Chapter #TK. Practice

Exercises Read

Part V Programming for Production

Chapter #TK. Testing

The Waterfall Software Development Process Other Software Development Processes Testing Assertions Types of Tests TDD Writing Good Tests Code Coverage Testing Saves Time Challenge

Chapter #TK. Best Programming Practices

Write Code As A Last Resort DRY Orthogonality Every Piece Of Data Should Have One Representation Functions Should Do One Thing Use Dummy Data If It’s Taking Too Long You Are Probably Making a Mistake Logging Do Things The Best Way The First Time Follow Conventions Code Reviews Security Challenge

Chapter #TK. Bringing It All Together

Word Cloud Lyrics

Practice

Exercises Read

Part VI Land a Job

Chapter X. Your First Programming Job

Choose a Path Getting Initial Experience Getting an Interview The Interview Hacking The Interview

Chapter X. Working on a Team

Master the Basics Don’t Ask What You Can Google Changing Code Imposter Syndrome

Further Learning

The Classics Online Classes Hacker News Other

Next Steps

Find a Mentor Strive to Go Deep Other Advice

Acknowledgements Glossary Biography

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