How to Think Like a Computer Scientist

Learning with Python

How to Think Like a Computer Scientist

Learning with Python

Allen Downey
Jeffrey Elkner
Chris Meyers

Green Tea Press

Wellesley, Massachusetts

Copyright © 2002 Allen Downey, Jeffrey Elkner, and Chris Meyers.

Edited by Shannon Turlington and Lisa Cutler. Cover design by Rebecca Gimenez.

Printing history:

April 2002:

First edition.

Green Tea Press
1 Grove St.
P.O. Box 812901
Wellesley, MA 02482

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Publisher's Cataloging-in-Publication (provided by Quality Books, Inc.)

Downey, Allen

        How to think like a computer scientist : learning 

    with Python / Allen Downey, Jeffrey Elkner, Chris       

    Meyers. - 1st ed. 

        p. cm.            

        Includes index.    

        ISBN 0-9716775-0-6 

        LCCN 2002100618    



        1. Python (Computer program language)  I. Elkner, 

    Jeffrey.  II. Meyers, Chris.  III. Title           



    QA76.73.P98D69 2002                     005.13'3          

                                                        QBI02-200031