Programming Languages Textbooks
Programming Fundamentals - A Modular Structured Approach using C++
Copyright Year: 2013
Contributor: Busbee
Publisher: OpenStax CNX
License: CC BY
Programming Fundamentals - A Modular Structured Approach using C++ is written by Kenneth Leroy Busbee, a faculty member at Houston Community College in Houston, Texas. The materials used in this textbook/collection were developed by the author and others as independent modules for publication within the Connexions environment. Programming fundamentals are often divided into three college courses: Modular/Structured, Object Oriented and Data Structures. This textbook/collection covers the first of those three courses.
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How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: Learning with Python
Copyright Year: 2008
Contributors: Downey, Elkner, and Meyers
Publisher: Green Tea Press
License: CC BY
How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: Learning with Python is an introduction to programming using Python.
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Think Python: How to Think Like a Computer Scientist - 2e
Copyright Year: 2012
Contributor: Downey
Publisher: Green Tea Press
License: CC BY-NC
Think Python is a concise introduction to software design using the Python programming language. Intended for people with no programming experience, this book starts with the most basic concepts and gradually adds new material. Some of the ideas students find most challenging, like recursion and object-oriented programming, are divided into a sequence of smaller steps and introduced over the course of several chapters.
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