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Contents

Authors

Contributors to this book

Installation and Setup

Installing and setting up the required software

Intro

A brief introduction

Hello, World (With Linkbots! Change a Linkbot's LED color)

The famous first program – screen output – variables – numbers and calculations

Who Goes There? (With Linkbots! Move a Linkbot's motor)

Interactive input – strings

Count to 10 (With Linkbots! Play some notes with the Linkbot's buzzer)

while loops

Decisions (With Linkbots! Move a 2-wheeled Linkbot forwards and backwards)

if statements

Linkbot Multitasking (Make a Linkbot do multiple things at once)

Program flow

Debugging

Finding out what goes wrong

Defining Functions (With Linkbots! Move and beep a 2-wheeled Linkbot with functions)

Structuring programs with the use of functions

Advanced Functions Example

(Almost) mind-blowing example of how programmers can think

Lists (With Linkbots! Play a song with the Linkbot's buzzer)

Variables containing more than one value

For Loops (With Linkbots! Play a range of notes with the Linkbot's buzzer)

A second kind of loop

Boolean Expressions (How to use a Linkbot's accelerometer)

Computer logic – True and False – and and or – not

Dictionaries (Storing note values in a dictionary to play on a Linkbot)

Variables containing key/value pairs

Using Modules

Extensions to the standard set of functionality

More on Lists

Using elements or parts of lists

Revenge of the Strings

More advanced text manipulations

File IO

Reading from files and writing to files

Dealing with the imperfect

How to handle errors

Recursion

Recursive Functions

Intro to Object Oriented Programming in Python 3 (Extend the Linkbot class for more functionality)

Basics of OOP (Object Oriented Programming)

Intro to Imported Libraries and other Functions

Basic functions from various libraries.

The End

How to go further

FAQ

Some frequently asked questions