Table of Contents

Chapter 1 -	Introduction	x
	Hello!	x
	Downloading and Installing Python	x

Chapter 2 -	"Hello World!" - Your First Program	x
	Starting the Python Interpreter	x
	Some Simple Math Stuff	x
	Evaluating Expressions	x
	Variables	x
	Strings	x
	Writing Programs	x
	Hello World!	x
	"My Favorite Stuff"	x
	Crazy Answers and Crazy Names for our Favorite Stuff	x
	Capitalizing our Variables	x

Chapter 3 -	Guess the Number	x
	Source Code	x
	Arguments	x
	Blocks	x
	Conditions and Booleans	x
	if Statements	x
	Step by Step, One More Time	x
	Some Changes We Could Make	x
	What Exactly is Programming?	x
	A Web Page for Program Tracing	x

Chapter 4 -	Jokes	x
	How Programs Run on Computers	x
	Source Code	x
	Some Other Escape Characters	x
	Quotes and Double Quotes	x

Chapter 5 -	Dragon World	x
	Source Code	x
	def Statements	x
	Boolean Operators	x
	Variable Scope	x
	Parameters	x
	Local Variables and Global Variables with the Same Name	x
	Where to Put Function Defintions	x
	The Colon :	x
	Step by Step, One More Time	x
	Designing the Program	x
	A Web Page for Program Tracing	x

Chapter 6 -	Hangman	x
	ASCII Art	x
	Source Code	x
	Designing the Program	x
	Multi-line Strings	x
	Constant Variables	x
	Lists	x
	Changing the Values of List Items with Index Assignment	x
	List Concatenation	x
	The in Operator	x
	Removing Items from Lists with del Statements	x
	Lists of Lists	x
	Methods	x
	The len() Function	x
	The range() Function	x
	for Loops	x
	Strings Act Like Lists	x
	List Slicing and Substrings	x
	elif ("Else If") Statements	x
	And that's it!	x
	Dictionaries	x
	Sets of Words for Hangman	x

Chapter 7 -	Tic Tac Toe	x
	Source Code	x
	Designing the Program	x
	Game AI	x
	List References	x
	Short-Circuit Evaluation	x
	The None Value	x
	A Web Page for Program Tracing	x

Chapter 8 -	Bagels	x
	Source Code	x
	Augmented Assignment Operators	x
	The sort() List Method	x
	The join() String Method	x
	String Interpolation	x

Chapter 9 -	Sonar	x
	Grids and Cartesian Coordinates	x
	Negative Numbers	x
	Changing the Signs	x
	Absolute Values	x
	Coordinate System of a Computer Monitor	x
	Source Code	x
	Designing the Program	x
	The remove() List Method	x

Chapter 10 -	Caesar Cipher	x
	About Cryptography	x
	ASCII, and Using Numbers for Letters	x
	The chr() and ord() Functions	x
	Source Code	x
	The isalpha() String Method	x
	The isupper() and islower() String Methods	x
	Cryptanalysis	x
	Brute Force	x

Chapter 11 -	Othello	x
	How to Play Othello	x
	Source Code	x
	The bool() Function	x
	The random.shuffle() Function	x
	Tips for Inventing Your Own Games	x

Chapter 12 -	AI Simulation	x
	"Computer vs. Computer" Games	x
	Percentages	x
	Integer Division	x
	The round() Function	x
	Learning New Things by Running Simulation Experiments	x