About the Book
A subset of chapters from the "big book," Introduction to Python for Computer Science and Data Science, Brief Version, Global Edition, takes a unique, modular approach to teaching and learning introductory Python programming that is relevant for both computer science and data science audiences. The Deitels cover the most current topics and applications to prepare you for your subsequent courses and career. Interesting, real-world problems use real-world datasets, with a focus on software engineering and program clarity. Jupyter Notebooks supplements, downloadable Python source code, and hundreds of hands-on examples, exercises and projects provide opportunities for you to test and apply your skills as you learn.
Table of Contents:
PART 1
CS: Python Fundamentals Quickstart
CS 1. Introduction to Computers and Python
DS Intro: AI–at the Intersection of CS and DS
CS 2. Introduction to Python Programming
DS Intro: Basic Descriptive Stats
CS 3. Control Statements and Program Development
DS Intro: Measures of Central Tendency—Mean, Median, Mode
CS 4. Functions
DS Intro: Basic Statistics— Measures of Dispersion
CS 5. Lists and Tuples
DS Intro: Simulation and Static Visualization
PART 2
CS: Python Data Structures, Strings and Files
CS 6. Dictionaries and Sets
DS Intro: Simulation and Dynamic Visualization
CS 7. Array-Oriented Programming with NumPy, High-Performance NumPy Arrays
DS Intro: Pandas Series and DataFrames
CS 8. Strings: A Deeper Look Includes Regular Expressions
DS Intro: Pandas, Regular Expressions and Data Wrangling
CS 9. Files and Exceptions
DS Intro: Loading Datasets from CSV Files into Pandas DataFrames
PART 3
CS: Python High-End Topics
CS 10. Object-Oriented Programming
DS Intro: Time Series and Simple Linear Regression
CS 11. Computer Science Thinking: Recursion, Searching, Sorting and Big O
CS and DS Other Topics Blog
About the Author :
About our authors Paul J. Deitel, CEO and Chief Technical Officer of Deitel & Associates, Inc., is an MIT graduate with 43 years in computing. He is one of the world's most experienced programming-languages trainers, having taught professional courses to software developers since 1992. He has delivered hundreds of programming courses to academic, industry, government and military clients of Deitel & Associates, Inc. internationally, including UCLA, SLB (formerly Schlumberger), Cisco, IBM, Siemens, Sun Microsystems (now Oracle), Dell, Fidelity, NASA at the Kennedy Space Center, the National Severe Storm Laboratory, White Sands Missile Range, Rogue Wave Software, Boeing, Puma, iRobot and many more.
Dr. Harvey M. Deitel, Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer of Deitel & Associates, Inc., has 62 years of experience in computing. Dr. Deitel earned B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from MIT and a Ph.D. in Mathematics from Boston University; he studied computing in each of these programs before they spun off Computer Science departments. He has extensive college and professional teaching experience, including earning tenure and serving as the Chairman of the Computer Science Department at Boston College before founding Deitel & Associates in 1991 with his son, Paul. The Deitels' publications have earned international recognition, with more than 100 translations published in Japanese, German, Russian, Spanish, French, Polish, Italian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean, Portuguese, Greek, Urdu and Turkish. Dr. Deitel has delivered hundreds of programming courses to academic, corporate, government and military clients.
