Cengage's PYTHON PROGRAMMING FOR ENGINEERS AND SCIENTISTS, 1st Edition, uses an easygoing, conversational writing style along with numerous visual aids to introduce programming and problem-solving to students of all backgrounds.

This edition is designed so that the program examples gradually transition from simple snippets to realistic applications.

These applications include graphics, graphical user interfaces, data visualization, event-driven programming, image processing, image manipulation and network communications.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Software Development, Data Types, and Expressions

Chapter 3: Loops and Selection Statements

Chapter 4: Strings and Text Files

Chapter 5: Lists and Dictionaries

Chapter 6: Design with Functions

Chapter 7: Design with Recursion

Chapter 8: Simple Graphics and Image Processing

Chapter 9: Graphical User Interfaces

Chapter 10: Design with Classes

Chapter 11: Data Analysis and Visualization

Chapter 12: Multithreading, Networks, and Client/Server Programming

Chapter 13: Searching, Sorting, and Complexity Analysis

Appendix A: Python Resources

Appendix B: Installing the images and breezyPython libraries

Appendix C: The API for Image Processing

Appendix D: Transition from Python to Java and C++

Appendix E: Suggestions for Further Reading