Full of easy-to-follow lessons for understanding and coding with the user-friendly open-source programming language Python, this guide will have you creating your own scripts in no time.

Background on computers and terminology. So you want to program computers ; Programming with Python ; Your first Python program -- Learning Python. Variables ; Conditional programming ; Loops ; Arrays ; String basics ; The new way of strings -- Basic programming concepts. Functions ; Does anybody really know what time it is? ; Error handling, or when things go terribly wrong ; Files, directories, and other things that persist ; Programming with class(es) -- Working with the Python environment. Graphics and Python ; Packages and modules ; Designing programs ; Testing ; The Python debugger and debugging.