Think Python

An Introduction to Software Design

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Think Python is the manuscript of a forthcoming book from Cambridge University Press. The planned publication date is February 2009. Here is my web page for the book, and here is the catalog page.

In support of Free Books, Cambridge has agreed to keep this manuscript available under the GNU Free Documentation License. Readers are free to copy and distribute the text; they are also free to modify it, which allows them to adapt the book to different needs, and to help develop new material.

If you are interested in using this book in a class during the Fall 2008 or Spring 2009 semester, please send email to feedback{at}thinkpython{dot}com. It may be possible to get hard copies of the manuscript for your students.

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Think Python is available in a variety of electronic formats:

• Precompiled copies of the book are available in PDF and Postscript.

• The LaTeX source code is available as a zip archive.

• Here is the HTML version, and here is the HTML code in a zip archive.

Earlier Versions

• This book is a substantially revised version of How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: Learning with Python.

• Jeff Elkner, who was my co-author on How to Think, is working on a second edition.

Other Free Books by Allen Downey are available from Green Tea Press.

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