Discovering Computer Science: Interdisciplinary Problems, Principles, and Python Programming

by Havill, Jessen

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Title Statements

Full title :Discovering Computer Science : Interdisciplinary Problems, Principles, and Python Programming / by Jessen Havill.

Summary

Discovering Computer Science: Interdisciplinary Problems, Principles, and Python Programming introduces computational problem solving as a vehicle of discovery in a wide variety of disciplines. With a principles-oriented introduction to computational thinking, the text provides a broader and deeper introduction to computer science than typical introductory programming books.Organized around interdisciplinary problem domains, rather than programming language features, each chapter guides students through increasingly sophisticated algorithmic and programming techniques. The author uses a spiral approach to introduce Python language features in increasingly complex contexts as the book progresses.The text places programming in the context of fundamental computer science principles, such as abstraction, efficiency, and algorithmic techniques, and offers overviews of fundamental topics that are traditionally put off until later courses.The book includes thirty well-developed independent projects that encourage students to explore questions across disciplinary boundaries. Each is motivated by a problem that students can investigate by developing algorithms and implementing them as Python programs.The book's accompanying website - http://discoverCS.denison.edu - includes sample code and data files, pointers for further exploration, errata, and links to Python language references.Containing over 600 homework exercises and over 300 integrated reflection questions, this textbook is appropriate for a first computer science course for computer science majors, an introductory scientific computing course or, at a slower pace, any introductory computer science course.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2016
Edition:First edition

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Taylor and Francis, an imprint of Chapman and Hall/CRC
Place of Publication:Boca Raton, FL
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2016

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (750 pages) : : 328 illustrations, text file, PDF

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781315381756, 1315381753, 9781000218480, 1000218481, 9781000218466, 1000218465, 9781000218473, 1000218473, 9781003037149, 1003037143
DOI:10.1201/9781003037149
oclc:on1110588633
LC Classification:QA76
Dewey Decimal:005.133

Subjects

abstraction Algorithm efficiency Computer Science COMPUTERS -- Programming Languages COMPUTERS / Computer Graphics / Game Pr… COMPUTERS / Programming Languages / Gen… Computers, General Informatique Introduction to Computer Science MATHEMATICS -- General Python (Computer program language) Python (Langage de programmation) Python programming