The Complete Python Training Course, Student Edition

For Python programming courses or Web programming courses focusing on Python programming found in departments of Computer Science, CIS, MIS, IT, Business, Engineering and Continuing Education. The Complete Python Training Course, Student Edition provides a comprehensive introduction to Python, a powerful object-oriented programming language, which has clear syntax and the ability to bring together several technologies quickly and easily. The ultimate Python programming package features the Python How to Program text along with a fully-interactive CD-ROM - The Python Multimedia Cyber Classroom CD-ROM - and provides students and programmers with the ideal medium for learning how to program with Python. It's a proven fact that the more involved students are, the more they learn. That's what The Complete Python Training Course is all about - helping students learn in every way possible. The Complete Python Training Course covers introductory programming techniques as well as more advanced topics such as graphical user interfaces, databases, wireless Internet programming, networking and multimedia.
Students will learn principles that are applicable to both systems development and Web programming. The Multimedia Cyber Classroom CD-ROM is Windows 95/98/NT/2000 compatible and includes these features that further enhance the features in the corresponding How To Program Book: - Full text, illustrations and program listings of its corresponding How to Program book with full-text searching and hyperlinking. - Hours of detailed, expert audio Hours of detailed, expert audio descriptions of thousands of lines of code that help to reinforce concepts. Students can execute this code to study a program's output and relate it to the program's source code. Students can also save the code to their hard drive to modify it and use as the basis for their own programs. - Practice exams that offer students hundreds of short-answer test questions and answers. Hundreds of self-review questions that are drawn from the text, all with answers. Hundreds of programming exercises that are drawn from the text, half with answers (the main text does not provide any answers to these exercises), Intuitive browser-based interface, designed to be easy and accessible for anyone who's ever used a Web browser.
Python How to Program Features: - Signature 'Live-Code Approach' - Language features are presented in the context of a wide variety of complete working programs. Features thousands of lines of code in hundreds of complete working programs, enables students to confirm that programs run as expected. Students can also manipulate the code from the CD-ROM in the back of the book, from the book's Companion Website (www.prenhall.com/deitel) or from the author or from the authors' Web site (www.deitel.com). - Outstanding, consistent and applied pedagogy - Icons throughout identify Software Engineering Observations; Good Programming Practices; Common Programming Errors; Portability Tips; Performance Tips, Testing and Debugging Tips, and Look-and-Feel Observations. Provides hundreds of valuable programming tips to reinforce good habits and to facilitate learning. - Extensive set of interesting exercises and substantial projects, students can apply what they've learned in each chapter. - Four-way syntax coloring - With the use of two colors and shading, enables students to better understand the book's hundreds of programs.
- CD-ROM with each text, Includes source code, hyperlinks to valuable Python demos and resources, and additional Python development tools (for an up-to-date list of resources on the CD, visit www.prenhall.com or www.deitel.com)