Explorations in computing : an introduction to computer science and Python programming / by John S. Conery.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Conery, John S., author.

Series:

Chapman & Hall/CRC textbooks in computing.

Chapman & Hall/CRC textbooks in computing

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Computer science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (435 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Boca Raton, FL : Chapman and Hall/CRC, an imprint of Taylor and Francis, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

An Active Learning Approach to Teaching the Main Ideas in Computing Explorations in Computing: An Introduction to Computer Science and Python Programming teaches computer science students how to use programming skills to explore fundamental concepts and computational approaches to solving problems. Tbook gives beginning students an introduction to computer science concepts and computer programming. Designed for CS0 and CS1 courses, it is very well suited for alternative lecture styles, including flipped classrooms.

Contents:

Front Cover; Contents; Preface; Chapter 1 - Introduction; Chapter 2 - The Python Workbench: Introducing Python and an environment for interactive experiments; Chapter 3 - The Sieve of Eratosthenes: An algorithm for finding prime numbers; Chapter 4 - A Journey of a Thousand Miles: Iteration as a strategy for solving computational problems; Chapter 5 - Divide and Conquer: A new strategy: Breaking large problems into smaller subproblems; Chapter 6 - Spam, Spam, Spam, Mail, and Spam: A machine learning approach to filtering junk mail

Chapter 7 - Now for Something Completely Different: An algorithm for generating random numbersChapter 8 - Bit by Bit: Binary codes and algorithms for text compression and error detection; Chapter 9 - The War of the Words: Computer architecture and machine level programming; Chapter 10 - I'd Like to Have an Argument, Please: A program that understands English (or does it?); Chapter 11 - The Music of the Spheres: Computer simulation and the N-body problem; Chapter 12 - The Traveling Salesman: A genetic algorithm for a computationally demanding problem; Back Cover

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-429-10164-3

1-4665-7245-0

1-4665-7244-2

9780429101649

OCLC:

899501243