Revel for Starting Out With Python -- Access Card

For courses in Python programming.

Revel™ Starting Out with Python is an interactive learning environment that integrates media, interactives, and assessment throughout the narrative so students can read, explore, and practice essential coding skills in context. In Revel Starting Out with Python, Tony Gaddis’ accessible coverage introduces students to the basics of Python programming concepts and problem-solving skills. As with all Gaddis titles, every chapter includes clear and easy-to-read code listings, concise and practical real-world examples, focused explanations, and an abundance of exercises. Students gain confidence in their skills and learn to recognize the logic behind developing high-quality programs. By combining Tony Gaddis’ signature, student-friendly approach to teaching programming fundamentals with a dynamic reading experience, Revel Starting Out with Python engages students at the point of learning, which leads to a deeper understanding of the course material. 

Revel is Pearson’s newest way of delivering our respected content. Fully digital and highly engaging, Revel replaces the textbook and gives students everything they need for the course. Informed by extensive research on how people read, think, and learn, Revel is an interactive learning environment that enables students to read, practice, and study in one continuous experience — for less than the cost of a traditional textbook.

NOTE: Revel is a fully digital delivery of Pearson content. This ISBN is for the standalone Revel access card. In addition to this access card, you will need a course invite link, provided by your instructor, to register for and use Revel.

Tony Gaddis is the principal author of the Starting Out With series of textbooks and Revel courses. Tony has nearly two decades of experience teaching computer science courses, primarily at Haywood Community College. He is a highly acclaimed instructor who was previously selected as the North Carolina Community College “Teacher of the Year” and has received the Teaching Excellence award from the National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development. The Starting Out With series includes introductory books covering C++, Java™, Microsoft® Visual Basic®, Microsoft® C#®, Python®, Programming Logic and Design, Alice, and App Inventor, all published by Pearson.

2. Input, Processing, and Output

3. Decision Structures and Boolean Logic

4. Repetition Structures

5. Functions

6. Files and Exceptions

7. Lists and Tuples

8. More About Strings

9. Dictionaries and Sets

10. Classes and Object-Oriented Programming

11. Inheritance

12. Recursion

13. GUI Programming

Appendix A  Installing Python

Appendix B  Introduction to IDLE

Appendix C  The ASCII Character Set

Appendix D  Predefined Named Colors

Appendix E  More About the import  Statement

Appendix F  Installing Modules with the pip  Utility

Appendix G  Answers to Checkpoints

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