The Python Workbook : A Brief Introduction with Exercises and Solutions

Author: Stephenson, Ben

Programming & scripting languages: general

Published on 19 July 2025 by Springer International Publishing AG in Switzerland as part of 'the Texts in Computer Science' series.

Hardback | 283 pages, 282 Illustrations, colour; 21 Illustrations, black and white
161 x 243 x 24 | 604g

The Python Workbook is a student-friendly compendium of 212 exercises that span a variety of academic disciplines and everyday situations paired with concise introductions to the programming concepts needed to complete them.  Accessible and easy to follow, the textbook encourages development of programming skills through active practice and hands-on learning. Thoroughly updated and expanded, this strong revised edition includes new sections on debugging, additional exercises in all chapters, and extensive revisions that reflect current practice, increase clarity, and ease comprehension.  The exercises and solutions require no prior background knowledge, beyond the material covered in a typical introductory Python course.

Topics and features: includes a mixture of classic exercises from the fields of computer science and mathematics, along with exercises that connect to other academic disciplinespresents the solutions to approximately half of the exercisesprovides annotations alongside the solutions, explaining the approach taken to solve the problem and relevant aspects of Python syntaxcontains exercises that encourage the development of programming skills using if statements, loops, functions, lists, dictionaries, files, and recursionexamines common errors and how to correct themoffers a variety of exercises of different lengths and difficultiesUndergraduate students enrolled in their first programming course will find this book ideal for their needs.  Their programming and debugging skills will be enhanced by reading its chapters, completing its exercises, and studying the provided solutions.