Python and Algorithmic Thinking for the Complete Beginner - Compact Edition: Learn to Think Like a Programmer

If you are wondering whether this book is going to teach you how to create amazing applets or incredible desktop or mobile applications, the answer is “no”—that is a job for other books. So many books out there can teach you those skills in Python, C#, or Java. Many of them even claim that they can teach you in 24 hours! Don’t laugh! They probably can do that, but all of them take one thing for granted—that the reader knows some basics about computer programming. None of those books, unfortunately, bothers to teach you the first thing that a novice programmer needs to learn, which is “Algorithmic Thinking.” Algorithmic Thinking involves more than just learning code. It is a problem solving process that involves learning how to code. This book is for anyone who wants to learn algorithmic thinking and computer programming and knows absolutely nothing about them. With more than 200 solved and about 400 unsolved exercises, 450 true/false, 150 multiple choice, and 160 review questions (the solutions and the answers to which can be found on the Internet), this book is ideal for students, teachers, professors, novices or average programmers, or for anyone who wants to start learning or teaching computer programming using the proper conventions and techniques. Ideal for • Students, teachers or professors • Novices or average programmers • Anyone who wants to start learning or teaching computer programming

如果你想知道這本書是否能教你如何創建令人驚嘆的小程式或令人難以置信的桌面或移動應用程式，答案是「不行」，這是其他書籍的工作。市面上有很多書籍可以教你使用Python、C#或Java等語言來學習這些技能。其中許多書籍甚至聲稱可以在24小時內教會你！不要笑！他們可能確實可以做到，但他們都假設讀者已經掌握了一些關於電腦編程的基礎知識。不幸的是，這些書籍都沒有教你作為初學者需要學習的第一件事，那就是「演算法思維」。演算法思維不僅僅是學習編程代碼，它是一個解決問題的過程，其中包括學習如何編寫代碼。這本書適合任何想學習演算法思維和電腦編程，且對這些領域一無所知的人。書中包含200多個已解答和約400個未解答的練習題，450個是非題，150個多選題和160個復習問題（解答和答案可以在網上找到）。這本書非常適合學生、教師、教授、初學者或普通程式設計師，或者任何想要開始學習或教授電腦編程的人，並使用正確的慣例和技巧。適合對象包括： • 學生、教師或教授 • 初學者或普通程式設計師 • 任何想要開始學習或教授電腦編程的人