Tiny Python Projects Learn coding and testing with puzzles and games 1st Edition by Ken Youens Clark 9781638350835 1638350833

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• ISBN 10: 1638350833
• ISBN 13: 9781638350835
• Author: Ken Youens Clark

”Tiny Python Projects is a gentle and amusing introduction to Python that will firm up key programming concepts while also making you giggle.”—Amanda Debler, Schaeffler  Key Features Learn new programming concepts through 21-bitesize programs Build an insult generator, a Tic-Tac-Toe AI, a talk-like-a-pirate program, and more Discover testing techniques that will make you a better programmer Code-along with free accompanying videos on YouTube Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications. About The Book The 21 fun-but-powerful activities in Tiny Python Projects teach Python fundamentals through puzzles and games. You’ll be engaged and entertained with every exercise, as you learn about text manipulation, basic algorithms, and lists and dictionaries, and other foundational programming skills. Gain confidence and experience while you create each satisfying project. Instead of going quickly through a wide range of concepts, this book concentrates on the most useful skills, like text manipulation, data structures, collections, and program logic with projects that include a password creator, a word rhymer, and a Shakespearean insult generator. Author Ken Youens-Clark also teaches you good programming practice, including writing tests for your code as you go.  What You Will Learn Write command-line Python programs Manipulate Python data structures Use and control randomness Write and run tests for programs and functions Download testing suites for each project This Book Is Written For For readers familiar with the basics of Python programming. About The Author Ken Youens-Clark is a Senior Scientific Programmer at the University of Arizona. He has an MS in Biosystems Engineering and has been programming for over 20 years. Table of Contents 1 How to write and test a Python program 2 The crow’s nest: Working with strings 3 Going on a picnic: Working with lists 4 Jump the Five: Working with dictionaries 5 Howler: Working with files and STDOUT 6 Words count: Reading files and STDIN, iterating lists, formatting strings 7 Gashlycrumb: Looking items up in a dictionary 8 Apples and Bananas: Find and replace 9 Dial-a-Curse: Generating random insults from lists of words 10 Telephone: Randomly mutating strings 11 Bottles of Beer Song: Writing and testing functions 12 Ransom: Randomly capitalizing text 13 Twelve Days of Christmas: Algorithm design 14 Rhymer: Using regular expressions to create rhyming words 15 The Kentucky Friar: More regular expressions 16 The Scrambler: Randomly reordering the middles of words 17 Mad Libs: Using regular expressions 18 Gematria: Numeric encoding of text using ASCII values 19 Workout of the Day: Parsing CSV files, creating text table output 20 Password strength: Generating a secure and memorable password 21 Tic-Tac-Toe: Exploring state 22 Tic-Tac-Toe redux: An interactive version with type hints

Table contents:

1 How to write and test a Python program

2 The crow’s nest: Working with strings

3 Going on a picnic: Working with lists

4 Jump the Five: Working with dictionaries

5 Howler: Working with files and STDOUT

6 Words count: Reading files and STDIN, iterating lists, formatting strings

7 Gashlycrumb: Looking items up in a dictionary

8 Apples and Bananas: Find and replace

9 Dial-a-Curse: Generating random insults from lists of words

10 Telephone: Randomly mutating strings

11 Bottles of Beer Song: Writing and testing functions

12 Ransom: Randomly capitalizing text

13 Twelve Days of Christmas: Algorithm design

14 Rhymer: Using regular expressions to create rhyming words

15 The Kentucky Friar: More regular expressions

16 The scrambler: Randomly reordering the middles of words

17 Mad Libs:Using regular expressions

18 Gematria: Numeric encoding of text using ASCII values

19 Workout of the Day: Parsing CSV files, creating text table output

20 Password strength: Generating a secure and memorable password

21 Tic-Tac-Toe: Exploring state

22 Tic-Tac-Toe redux: An interactive version with type hints

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