Description
Book SynopsisAn 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.
Prepares Students for Advanced Work in Computer Science
A revised and updated version of the author's Explorations in Computing: An Introduction to Computer Science, this text incorporates two major differences. It now uses Python, instead of Ruby, as the lab software so that students can seamlessly transition from introductory projects to more advanced studies in later courses. The book also introduces Python progr
Table of Contents
Introduction. The Python Workbench. The Sieve of Eratosthenes. A Journey of a Thousand Miles. Iteration as a Strategy for Solving Computational Problems. Breaking Large Problems into Smaller Subproblems. A Machine Learning Approach to Filtering Junk Mail. An Algorithm for Generating Random Numbers. Binary Codes and Algorithms for text Compression and Error Detection. Introduction to Computer Architecture and Assembly Language Programming. A Program that Understands English (or does it). Computer Simulation and the N-Body Problem. A Genetic Algorithm for a Computationally Demanding Problem.
