Introduction to Python Programming and Data Structures, Global Edition

Y. Daniel Liang earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Oklahoma, USA in 1991, and an MS and BS in Computer Science from Fudan University, China, in 1986 and 1983. Prior to joining Armstrong, he was Associate Professor of Computer Science at Purdue University in Fort Wayne, where he twice received the Excellence in Research Award. Dr. Liang was trained in theoretical computer science. He was active in graph algorithms from 1990 to 1995 and published more than ten papers in several established journals such as SIAM Journal on Computing, Discrete Applied Mathematics, Acta Informatics, and Information Processing Letters. Since 1996, he has devoted to writing texts and published more than thirty books with Prentice Hall. His popular computer science texts are widely adopted in the world. Dr. Liang was elected a Java Champion in 2005 by Sun Microsystems and has given lectures on Java internationally.

Introduction to Computers, Programs, and Python
Elementary Programming
Selections
Mathematical Functions, Strings, and Objects
Loops
Functions
Lists
Multidimensional Lists
Objects and Classes
Basic GUI Programming Using Tkinter
Advanced GUI Programming Using Tkinter
Inheritance and Polymorphism
Files and Exception Handling
Tuples, Sets, and Dictionaries
Recursion
Developing Efficient Algorithms
Sorting
Linked Lists, Stacks, Queues, and Priority Queues
Binary Search Trees
AVL Trees
Hashing
Graphs and Applications
Weighted Graphs and Applications



Appendix A. Python Keywords
Appendix B. The ASCII Character Set
Appendix C. Number Systems
Appendix D. Command Line Arguments
Appendix E. Regular Expressions
Appendix F. Bitwise Operations
Appendix G. The Big-O, Big-Omega, and Big-Theta Notations
Appendix H. Operator Precedence Chart
Symbol Index
Supplemental Material
Glossary