A Simple Introduction to Python

Cover....1 Half Title....2 Series Page....3 Title Page....4 Copyright Page....5 Dedication....6 Contents....8 Preface....12 CHAPTER 1: Python as a Powerful Calculator....22 1.1. BODMAS....22 1.2. FRACTIONS: SYMBOLIC COMPUTATION....23 1.3. POWERS (EXPONENTIATION) AND ROOTS....24 1.4. THE MATH LIBRARY (MODULE)....25 CHAPTER 2: Simple Programming with Python....28 2.1. LISTS, TUPLES, SETS AND DICTIONARIES ....28 2.2. DEFINING FUNCTIONS (PROGRAMMING)....31 2.3. FOR AND WHILE LOOPS....32 2.4. CONDITIONAL STATEMENTS, IF, ELIF, ELSE ....35 CHAPTER 3: The Turtle Library....38 3.1. THE CANTOR SET FRACTAL....39 3.2. THE KOCH SNOWFLAKE....40 3.3. A BIFURCATING TREE....41 3.4. THE SIERPINSKI TRIANGLE....42 CHAPTER 4: NumPy and MatPlotLib....45 4.1. NUMERICAL PYTHON (NUMPY)....45 4.2. MATPLOTLIB....47 4.3. SCATTER PLOTS....49 4.4. SURFACE PLOTS....50 CHAPTER 5: Google Colab, SymPy and GitHub ....53 5.1. GOOGLE COLAB....53 5.2. FORMATTING NOTEBOOKS....54 5.3. SYMBOLIC PYTHON (SYMPY)....56 5.4. GITHUB....58 CHAPTER 6: Python for Mathematics....61 6.1. BASIC ALGEBRA....61 6.2. SOLVING EQUATIONS....62 6.3. FUNCTIONS (MATHEMATICS)....64 6.4. DIFFERENTIATION AND INTEGRATION (CALCULUS)....67 CHAPTER 7: Introduction to Cryptography....72 7.1. THE CAESAR CIPHER....73 7.2. THE XOR CIPHER....74 7.3. THE RIVEST-SHAMIR-ADLEMAN (RSA) CRYPTOSYSTEM....75 7.4. SIMPLE RSA ALGORITHM EXAMPLE....76 CHAPTER 8: An Introduction to Artificial Intelligence....80 8.1. ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS....81 8.2. THE AND/OR AND XOR GATE ANNS....82 8.3. THE BACKPROPAGATION ALGORITHM....84 8.4. BOSTON HOUSING DATA....86 CHAPTER 9: An Introduction to Data Science....89 9.1. INTRODUCTION TO PANDAS....89 9.2. LOAD, CLEAN AND PREPROCESS THE DATA ....92 9.3. EXPLORING THE DATA....94 9.4. VIOLIN, SCATTER AND HEXAGONAL BIN PLOTS ....95 CHAPTER 10: An Introduction to Object Oriented Programming....100 10.1. CLASSES AND OBJECTS....101 10.2. ENCAPSULATION....102 10.3. INHERITANCE....103 10.4. POLYMORPHISM....104 Index....110