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Snake Wrangling for Kids, Learning to Program with Python

by Jason R. Briggs

Version 0.7.7

Published by... ah, no one actually.

Cover art and illustrations by Nuthapitol C.

Website:

http://www.briggs.net.nz/log/writing/snake-wrangling-for-kids

Thanks To:

Guido van Rossum (for benevelont dictatorship of the Python language), the mem-

bers of the Edu-Sig mailing list (for helpful advice and commentary), author David Brin

(the original instigator of this book), Michel Weinachter (for providing better quality

versions of the illustrations), and various people for providing feedback and errata,

including: Paulo J. S. Silva, Tom Pohl, Janet Lathan, Martin Schimmels, and Mike

Cariaso (among others). Anyone left o this list, who shouldn’t have been, is en-

tirely due to premature senility on the part of the author.

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Contents

Preface

1 Not all snakes will squish you 1

1.1 A Few Words About Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

1.2 The Order of Non-venomousConstricting Serpentes. . .

. . . . . . . . . 3

1.3 Your rst Python program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

1.4 Your Second Python program. . .the same again? . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

2 8 multiplied by 3.57 equals. . .

2.1 Use of brackets and “Order of Operations” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

2.2 There’s nothing so ckle as a variable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

2.3 Using Variable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

2.4 A Piece of String? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

2.5 Tricks with Strings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

2.6 Not quite a shopping list . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

2.7 Tuples and Lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

2.8 Things to try . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

3 Turtles, and other slow moving creatures 25

3.1 Things to try . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

4 How to ask a question

4.1 Do this. . . or ELSE!!! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

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