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Table of Contents

1.1.   Introduction 1.2.   About the Author & Contact Info 1.3.   Book Conventions 1.4.   What (Who) is a Programmer? 1.5.   Programming Across Disciplines 1.6.   Foundational Computing Concepts 1.7.   About Python 1.8.   First Steps 1.8.1 Computer Setup 1.8.2 Python print() Function 1.8.3 Comments
2.1. About Data 2.2. Data Types 2.3. Variables 2.4. User Input 2.5. Data Structures (DS)         2.5.1. DS Concepts         2.5.2. Lists         2.5.3. Dictionaries         2.5.4. Others 2.6. Files         2.6.1. Files & File Systems         2.6.2. Python File Object         2.6.3. Data Files 2.7. Databases
3.1. About Processing 3.2. Decisions         3.2.1 Decision Concepts         3.2.2 Conditions & Booleans         3.2.3 if Statements         3.2.4 if-else Statements         3.2.5 if-elif-else Statements         3.2.6 In-Line if Statements 3.3. Repetition (a.k.a. Loops)         3.3.1 Repetition Concepts         3.3.2 while Loops         3.3.3 for Loops         3.3.4 Nested Loops         3.3.5 Validating User Input 3.4. Functions         3.4.1 Function Concepts         3.4.2 Built-In Functions         3.4.3 Programmer Defined Functions 3.5. Libraries         3.5.1 Library Concepts         3.5.2 Standard Library         3.5.3 External Libraries 3.6. Processing Case Studies         3.6.1 Case Studies         3.6.2 Parsing Data
4.1. About Output 4.2. Advanced Printing 4.3. Data Visualization   4.4 Sound
  4.5 Graphics
  4.6 Video
  4.7 Web Output
  4.8 PDFs & Documents
  4.9 Dashboards
  4.10 Animation & Games
  4.11 Text to Speech

5.1 About Disciplines 5.2 Accounting 5.3 Architecture 5.4 Art 5.5 Artificial Intelligence (AI) 5.6 Autonomous Vehicles 5.7 Bioinformatics 5.8 Biology 5.9 Bitcoin 5.10 Blockchain 5.11 Business 5.12 Business Analytics 5.13 Chemistry 5.14 Communication 5.15 Computational Photography 5.16 Computer Science 5.17 Creative Writing 5.18 Cryptocurrency 5.19 Cultural Studies 5.20 Data Analytics 5.21 Data Engineering 5.22 Data Science 5.23 Data Visualization 5.24 Drone Piloting 5.25 Economics 5.26 Education 5.27 Engineering 5.28 English 5.29 Entrepreneurship 5.30 Environmental Studies 5.31 Exercise Science 5.32 Film 5.33 Finance 5.34 Gaming 5.35 Gender Studies 5.36 Genetics 5.37 Geography 5.38 Geology 5.39 Geospatial Analysis ☯ 5.40 History 5.41 Humanities 5.42 Information Systems 5.43 Languages 5.44 Law 5.45 Linguistics 5.46 Literature 5.47 Machine Learning 5.48 Management 5.49 Marketing 5.50 Mathematics 5.51 Medicine 5.52 Military 5.53 Model Railroading 5.54 Music 5.55 Natural Language Processing (NLP) 5.56 Network Analysis 5.57 Neural Networks 5.58 Neurology 5.59 Nursing 5.60 Pharmacology 5.61 Philosophy 5.62 Physiology 5.63 Politics 5.64 Psychiatry 5.65 Psychology 5.66 Real Estate 5.67 Recreation 5.68 Remote Control (RC) Vehicles 5.69 Rhetoric 5.70 Science 5.71 Sociology 5.72 Sports 5.73 Stock Trading 5.74 Text Mining 5.75 Weather 5.76 Writing
6.1. Databases         6.1.1 Overview of Databases         6.1.2 SQLite Databases         6.1.3 Querying a SQLite Database         6.1.4 CRUD Operations with SQLite         6.1.5 Connecting to Other Databases
Built-In Functions Conceptss Data Types Date & Time Format Codes Dictionary Methods Escape Sequences File Access Modes File Object Methods Python Keywords List Methods Operators Set Methods String Methods Tuple Methods Glossary Index Appendices   Software Install & Setup
  Coding Tools:
  A.  Python ↗   B.  Google CoLaboratory ↗   C.  Visual Studio Code ↗   D.  PyCharm IDE ↗   E.  Git ↗   F.  GitHub ↗
  Database Tools:
  G.  SQLite Database ↗   H.  MySQL Database ↗

Python Across Disciplines
by John Gordon © 2023

Table of Contents

6.0 Chapter Overview     6.1. Databases
        6.1.1 Overview of Databases         6.1.2 SQLite Databases         6.1.3 Querying a SQLite Database         6.1.4 CRUD Operations w/SQLite         6.1.5 Connecting to Other Databases     6.2. Object Oriented Programming
            6.2.1. Introduction to OOP             6.2.2. Unified Modeling Language             6.2.3. Classes & Objects             6.2.4. Abstraction             6.2.5. Encapsulation             6.2.6. Inheritance             6.2.7. Polymorphism             6.2.8. Exception Handling             6.2.9. Codealong: Employees             6.2.10. Codealong: Cars     6.3. Graphical User Interfaces
            6.3.1. Introduction to GUIs
            6.3.2. Tkinter
            6.3.3. Codealong: Login Form
            6.3.4. Codealong: Data Entry Form
    6.4. Algorithms & Data Structures
            6.4.1. Introduction to Algorithms
            6.4.2. Searching
            6.4.3. Sorting
            6.4.4. Metrics
            6.4.5. Nodes
            6.4.6. Linked Lists 1
            6.4.7. Linked Lists 2
            6.4.8. Stacks
            6.4.9. Queues
            6.4.10. Heaps
            6.4.11. Trees
            6.4.12. Graphs
            6.4.13. Maps
            6.4.14. Hashing
            6.4.15. Cryptography
    6.5. Additional Advanced Topics
            6.5.1. APIs
            6.5.2. Automation
            6.5.3. Recursion
            6.5.4. More About Datasets
            6.5.5. Large Language Models
            6.5.6. Text Analysis
            6.5.7. Web Scraping
            6.5.8. Data Science
            6.5.9. Machline Learning
            6.5.10. Natural Lang Processing
            6.5.11. Artificial Intelligence
            6.5.12. Cython
            6.5.13. PyPy
            6.5.14. Multi-Threading
            6.5.15. Parallel Processing

Table of Contents » Chapter 1 : Preliminaries : Introduction

Introduction

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Welcome to Programming Across Disciplines with Python + AI Tools.

I have taught computer programming to hundreds of people in corporations and in college classrooms. Over the years, I used a variety of great resources available in print and online to teach computing and programming. However, I have always found myself writing supplemental materials because my teaching approach is interdisciplinary. My students come from many different backgrounds, with various interests, and have a wide variety of reasons and goals for learning programming. Most programming books, understandably, have a central topical focus, however, I need materials to cater to the programming needs of diverse students across disciplines—this is the central idea of this book.

Book Outline

The general structure of this book is based on the foundation computing concept of input ⇨ processing ⇨ output. The purpose of structuring the book in this manner is to serve the cross-disciplinary premise of this work. The programming challenges in most disciplines in academia and industry fundamentally deal with data (input) that needs to be processed for the purposes of producing some form of output. This book follows that order in presenting the primary topics surrounding programming in general and Python specifically.

The following is a summary of the book's structure. I recommend working through the book in this order:

Chapter 1: Preliminaries
Chapter 2: Data (Input)
Chapter 3: Processing
Chapter 4: Output
Chapter 5: Python Across Disciplines
Chapter 6: Advanced Python
Reference Materials

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