Non-Programmer's Tutorial for Python 3

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This is a conversion of the Non-Programmer's Tutorial for Python 2.6 to Python 3.

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Authors: Contributors to this book
Front matter: Initial remarks
Intro: Installing and using Python – where to get help
Hello, World: The famous first program – screen output – variables – numbers and calculations
Who Goes There?: Interactive input – strings
Count to 10: while loops
Decisions: if statements
Debugging: Finding out what goes wrong
Defining Functions: Structuring programs with the use of functions
Advanced Functions Example: (Almost) mind-blowing example of how programmers can think
Lists: Variables containing more than one value
For Loops: A second kind of loop
Boolean Expressions: Computer logic – True and False – and and or – not
Dictionaries: Variables containing key/value pairs
Using Modules: Extensions to the standard set of functionality
More on Lists: Using elements or parts of lists
Revenge of the Strings: More advanced text manipulations
File IO: Reading from files and writing to files
Dealing with the imperfect: How to handle errors
Recursion: Recursive Functions
Intro to Object Oriented Programming in Python 3: Basics of OOP (Object Oriented Programming)
Intro to Imported Libraries and other Functions: Basic functions from various libraries.
The End: How to go further
FAQ: Some frequently asked questions

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