Table of Contents

• Exercise 0: The Setup
• Exercise 1: A Good First Program
• Exercise 2: Comments and Pound Characters
• Exercise 3: Numbers and Math
• Exercise 4: Variables and Names
• Exercise 5: More Variables and Printing
• Exercise 6: Strings and Text
• Exercise 7: More Printing
• Exercise 8: Printing, Printing
• Exercise 9: Printing, Printing, Printing Exercise 10: What Was That?
• Exercise 11: Asking Questions
• Exercise 12: Prompting People
• Exercise 13: Parameters, Unpacking, Variables
• Exercise 14: Prompting and Passing
• Exercise 15: Reading Files
• Exercise 16: Reading and Writing Files
• Exercise 17: More Files
• Exercise 18: Names, Variables, Code, Functions
• Exercise 19: Functions and Variables
• Exercise 20: Functions and Files
• Exercise 21: Functions Can Return Something
• Exercise 22: What Do You Know So Far?
• Exercise 23: Read Some Code
• Exercise 24: More Practice
• Exercise 25: Even More Practice
• Exercise 26: Congratulations, Take a Test!
• Exercise 27: Memorizing Logic
• Exercise 28: Boolean Practice
• Exercise 29: What If
• Exercise 30: Else and If
• Exercise 31: Making Decisions
• Exercise 32: Loops and Lists
• Exercise 33: While-Loops
• Exercise 34: Accessing Elements of Lists
• Exercise 35: Branches and Functions
• Exercise 36: Designing and Debugging
• Exercise 37: Symbol Review
• Exercise 38: Doing Things to Lists
• Exercise 39: Dictionaries, Oh Lovely Dictionaries
• Exercise 40: Modules, Classes, and Objects
• Exercise 41: Learning to Speak Object Oriented
• Exercise 42: Is-A, Has-A, Objects, and Classes
• Exercise 43: Basic Object-Oriented Analysis and Design
• Exercise 44: Inheritance vs. Composition
• Exercise 45: You Make a Game
• Exercise 46: A Project Skeleton

About the Author

Zed A. Shaw is the author of the popular books Learn Python the Hard Way, Learn Ruby the Hard Way, and Learn C the Hard Way. He is also the creator of several open source software projects like Mongrel, Lamson, Mongrel2, and has been programming and writing for nearly 20 years.