BiteSize Python for Absolute Beginners: With Practice Labs, Real-World Examples, and Generative AI Assistance

Cover....1 Half Title....2 Series Page....3 Title Page....4 Copyright Page....5 Dedication....6 Contents....8 List of Figures....18 List of Tables....20 Foreword....22 Preface....24 Author Bios....28 SECTION I: Python Fundamentals....30 CHAPTER 1: Introduction to Python....32 1.1. WHAT IS PYTHON?....32 1.2. WHY PYTHON?....33 1.3. SCRIPT VERSUS INTERACTIVE PYTHON....33 1.4. WHY INTERACTIVE PYTHON?....34 1.5. JUPYTER....35 1.6. LOCAL OR CLOUD....36 1.7. LEARNING PYTHON....37 CHAPTER 2: Input and Output....39 2.1. HELLO, WORLD!....39 2.1.1. Demonstration....39 2.1.2. Practice....40 2.2. SINGLE OR DOUBLE....40 2.2.1. Explanation....40 2.2.2. Demonstration....41 2.2.3. Practice....41 2.3. TRIPLE QUOTATIONS....42 2.3.1. Explanation....42 2.3.2. Practice....43 2.4. PRINT MULTIPLE VALUES....44 2.4.1. Demonstration....44 2.4.2. Practice....44 2.5. INTERACT WITH GENAI....44 2.6. GET INPUTS....45 2.6.1. Demonstration....45 2.6.2. Practice....45 2.7. COMBINE PRINT() AND INPUT()....46 2.7.1. Explanation....46 2.7.2. Demonstration....46 2.7.3. Practice....46 2.8. INTERACT WITH GENAI....47 CHAPTER 3: Variables....48 3.1. WHAT ARE VARIABLES....48 3.1.1. Explanation....48 3.1.2. Practice....49 3.2. NAMING RULES....49 3.2.1. Explanation....49 3.2.2. Practice....50 3.3. DATA TYPES....50 3.3.1. Explanation....50 3.3.2. Practice....51 3.4. DATA TYPES CONVERT....52 3.4.1. Explanation....52 3.4.2. Demonstration....52 3.4.3. Practice....53 3.5. INTERACT WITH GENAI....54 CHAPTER 4: Operations....55 4.1. ASSIGNMENT OPERATIONS....55 4.1.1. Explanation....55 4.1.2. Practice....56 4.2. ARITHMETIC OPERATIONS....56 4.2.1. Explanation....56 4.2.2. Demonstration....57 4.2.3. Practice....58 4.3. RELATIONAL OPERATIONS....59 4.3.1. Explanation....59 4.3.2. Practice....59 4.4. LOGICAL OPERATIONS....60 4.4.1. Explanation....60 4.4.2. Practice....61 4.5. INTERACT WITH GENAI....63 CHAPTER 5: String....65 5.1. WHAT IS STR?....65 5.1.1. Explanation....65 5.1.2. Thinking....65 5.2. STRING CREATION....65 5.2.1. Demonstration....66 5.3. STRING ACCESS....66 5.3.1. Demonstraton....66 5.3.2. Practice....68 5.4. STRING SLICING....69 5.4.1. Demonstration....70 5.4.2. Practice....71 5.5. STRING CONCATENATION....71 5.5.1. Demonstration....71 5.6. STRING FORMAT....72 5.6.1. Demonstration....72 5.6.2. Practice....74 5.7. USEFUL FUNCTIONS....75 5.7.1. Demonstration....75 5.7.2. Practice....77 5.8. INTERACT WITH GENAI....80 CHAPTER 6: Case Studies of Python Fundamentals....81 6.1. SIMPLE CHECK OUT....81 6.2. TIPS SPLIT....82 6.3. COMPOUND INTEREST....83 SECTION II: Flow Control and Functions....84 CHAPTER 7: Branching....86 7.1. OPTIONAL BRANCHING....86 7.1.1. Demonstration....87 7.1.2. Practice....88 7.2. ALTERNATIVE BRANCHING....89 7.2.1. Demonstration....89 7.2.2. Practice....90 7.3. MULTIPLE BRANCHING....91 7.3.1. Demonstration....92 7.3.2. Practice....93 7.4. CASE STUDIES OF BRANCHING....95 7.4.1. What day is today?....95 7.4.2. Tax calculator....95 7.4.3. A simple calculator....96 7.4.4. Taxi fare calculator....97 7.5. INTERACT WITH GENAI....98 CHAPTER 8: Repetition....99 8.1. CONDITION-BASED REPETITION....99 8.1.1. Explanation....99 8.1.2. Demonstration....100 8.1.3. Practice....101 8.2. COUNT-BASED REPETITION....103 8.2.1. Explanation....103 8.2.2. Demonstration....104 8.2.3. Practice....105 8.3. MAGIC CONTROL....107 8.3.1. Demonstration....107 8.3.2. Practice....108 8.4. CASE STUDIES OF REPETITION....109 8.4.1. Prime numbers....109 8.4.2. A simple grade book....109 8.4.3. Fahrenheit to Celsius converter....110 8.4.4. How many E and e are in a sentence?....111 8.5. INTERACT WITH GENAI....111 CHAPTER 9: Functions....113 9.1. WHAT ARE FUNCTIONS?....113 9.1.1. Explanation....113 9.1.2. Example: Bread toaster....114 9.1.3. Practice....114 9.2. TYPES OF FUNCTIONS....115 9.2.1. Explanation....115 9.3. DEFINE A FUNCTION....115 9.3.1. Demonstration....115 9.3.2. Practice....116 9.4. PARAMETERS AND ARGUMENTS....118 9.4.1. Explanation....118 9.4.2. Demonstration....118 9.4.3. Practice....119 9.5. TWO PARAMETERS....121 9.5.1. Demonstration....122 9.5.2. Practice....122 9.6. HOW TO PASS ARGUMENTS....124 9.6.1. Demonstration....124 9.6.2. Practice....125 9.7. DEFAULT VALUE....125 9.7.1. Demonstration....125 9.7.2. Practice....126 9.8. RETURN VALUES....128 9.8.1. Explanation....128 9.8.2. Demonstration....128 9.9. RETURN NUMERIC VALUES....129 9.9.1. Demonstration....129 9.9.2. Practice....129 9.10. RETURN STR VALUES....131 9.10.1. Demonstration....131 9.10.2. Practice....131 9.11. RETURN BOOLEAN VALUES....131 9.11.1. Demonstration....132 9.11.2. Practice....132 9.12. RETURN MULTIPLE VALUES....133 9.12.1. Demonstration....133 9.12.2. Practice....133 9.13. INTERACT WITH GENAI....135 CHAPTER 10: Advanced Functions....136 10.1. NESTED FUNCTIONS....136 10.1.1. Explanation....136 10.1.2. Demonstration....136 10.1.3. Practice....137 10.2. HIERARCHICAL FUNCTIONS....139 10.2.1. Explanation....139 10.2.2. Demonstration....139 10.3. INTERACT WITH GENAI....141 10.4. RECURSIVE FUNCTIONS....141 10.4.1. Explanation....141 10.4.2. Demonstration....142 10.4.3. Practice....142 10.5. INTERACT WITH GENAI....144 SECTION III: Data Structures....146 CHAPTER 11: List....148 11.1. WHAT IS A LIST....148 11.2. CREATE A LIST....149 11.2.1. Demonstration....149 11.2.2. Practice....150 11.3. HETEROGENEITY....151 11.3.1. Demonstration....151 11.3.2. Practice....152 11.3.3. Test your understanding....152 11.4. ACCESS A LIST BY INDEX....153 11.4.1. Demonstration....153 11.4.2. Practice....154 11.5. ACCESS A LIST BY ITERATION....155 11.5.1. Demonstration....155 11.5.2. Practice....156 11.6. LIST MANIPULATION....157 11.6.1. Demonstration....157 11.6.2. Practice....158 11.7. MORE MANIPULATION OF A LIST....159 11.7.1. Demonstration....159 11.7.2. Practice....160 11.8. SLICE A LIST....162 11.8.1. Demonstration....162 11.8.2. Practice....164 11.9. LIST COMPREHENSION....165 11.9.1. Demonstration....165 11.9.2. Practice....167 11.10. ADVANCED LIST COMPREHENSION....168 11.10.1. Demonstration....168 11.10.2. Practice....169 11.11. INTERACT WITH GENAI....171 11.12. EXPLORE MORE OF LIST....171 CHAPTER 12: Tuple....172 12.1. WHAT IS A TUPLE....172 12.1.1. Explanation....172 12.2. CREATE A TUPLE....173 12.2.1. Demonstration....173 12.2.2. Practice....174 12.3. HETEROGENEOUS TUPLE IN PYTHON....175 12.3.1. Demonstration....175 12.3.2. Practice....176 12.4. ACCESS ELEMENTS IN A TUPLE BY INDEX....176 12.4.1. Demonstration....176 12.4.2. Practice....178 12.5. ACCESS ELEMENTS IN A TUPLE BY ITERATION....179 12.5.1. Demonstration....179 12.5.2. Practice....180 12.6. SLICE A TUPLE....181 12.6.1. Demonstration....181 12.6.2. Practice....182 12.7. TUPLE COMPREHENSION....183 12.7.1. Demonstration....183 12.7.2. Practice....184 12.8. INTERACT WITH GENAI....186 12.9. EXPLORE MORE OF TUPLE....186 CHAPTER 13: Set....187 13.1. WHAT IS A SET....187 13.1.1. Explanation....187 13.1.2. Practice....187 13.2. CREATE A SET....188 13.2.1. Demonstration....188 13.2.2. Practice....189 13.3. ELEMENTS IN A SET....190 13.3.1. Demonstration....190 13.3.2. Practice....190 13.4. SET OPERATIONS....191 13.4.1. Demonstration....191 13.4.2. Practice....193 13.5. SET METHODS....194 13.5.1. Demonstration....194 13.5.2. Practice....195 13.6. SET COMPREHENSION....196 13.6.1. Demonstration....196 13.7. INTERACT WITH GENAI....197 13.8. EXPLORE MORE OF SET....198 CHAPTER 14: Dictionary....199 14.1. WHAT IS A DICTIONARY....199 14.1.1. Explanation....199 14.1.2. Practice....200 14.2. CREATE A DICTIONARY....200 14.2.1. Demonstration....200 14.2.2. Practice....201 14.3. ACCESS A DICTIONARY....202 14.3.1. Demonstration....202 14.3.2. Practice....203 14.4. DICTIONARY METHODS....205 14.4.1. Demonstration....205 14.4.2. Practice....206 14.5. DICTIONARY COMPREHENSION....207 14.5.1. Demonstration....207 14.5.2. Practice....208 14.6. INTERACT WITH GENAI....209 14.7. EXPLORE MORE OF DICTIONARY....209 CHAPTER 15: Case Studies of Data Structures....210 15.1. WARM-UP....210 15.2. DATA CREATION....211 15.3. USING LISTS....211 15.4. USING TUPLES....213 15.5. USING SETS....214 15.6. USING DICTIONARIES....214 15.7. FURTHERMORE....216 15.8. COMPLEXITY....216 SECTION IV: Data Collections....218 CHAPTER 16: Named Tuple....220 16.1. WHAT IS A NAMED TUPLE....220 16.1.1. Explanation....220 16.1.2. Demonstration....220 16.2. PACKAGE MANAGEMENT....221 16.3. CASE STUDY: CAR....222 16.4. INTERACT WITH GENAI....222 16.5. EXPLORE MORE OF NAMED TUPLE....223 CHAPTER 17: Default Dictionary....224 17.1. WHAT IS A DEFAULT DICTIONARY....224 17.2. DEFAULT INT....226 17.2.1. Demonstration....226 17.2.2. Practice....226 17.3. DEFAULT LIST....227 17.3.1. Demonstration....227 17.3.2. Practice....228 17.4. DEFAULT SET....228 17.4.1. Demonstration....228 17.4.2. Practice....229 17.5. CASE STUDY: HACKATHON....229 17.6. INTERACT WITH GENAI....231 17.7. EXPLORE MORE OF DEFAULT DICTIONARY....231 CHAPTER 18: Counters....232 18.1. WHAT IS A COUNTER....232 18.2. MORE ABOUT COUNTER....233 18.2.1. Explanation....233 18.2.2. Demonstration....233 18.2.3. Practice....234 18.3. CASE STUDY: ROMEO AND JULIET....235 18.4. INTERACT WITH GENAI....236 18.5. EXPLORE MORE OF COUNTER....236 What is Next?....238 Index....240