文档介绍：How to Think Like puter Scientist
Learning with Python
How to Think Like puter Scientist
Learning with Python
Allen Downey
Jeﬀrey Elkner
Chris Meyers
Green Tea Press
Wellesley, Massachusetts
Copyright °c 2002 Allen Downey, Jeﬀrey Elkner, and Chris Meyers.
Edited by Shannon Turlington and Lisa Cutler. Cover design by a Gimenez.
Printing history:
April 2002: First edition.
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Downey, Allen
How to think like puter scientist : learning
with Python / Allen Downey, Jeﬀrey Elkner, Chris
Meyers. – 1st ed.
p. cm.
Includes index.
ISBN 0-9716775-0-6
2002100618
1. Python (Computer program language) I. Elkner,
Jeﬀrey. II. Meyers, Chris. III. Title
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Foreword
By David Beazley
As an educator, researcher, and book author, I am delighted to see -
pletion of this book. Python is a fun and extremely easy-to-use programming
language that has steadily gained in popularity over the last few years. De-