Python 3 Exercises for beginners
Python 3 Exercises for beginners
Easy exercises for starting coders
About the Book
This book pretends to fill a gap between the Python books.
Written by Carles Mateo, with Sandra Soriano and Albert Ballart as coautors, when Carles was teaching to different students he realized that there is a gap, between the moment the person is starting to program and finds no exercises easy enough to do. They are too difficult. Like in hackerrank.
This book provides very easy exercises to learn easily, and explanations abut the solutions achieved.
Then the difficulty increases, and the explanations provide a very valuable knowledge absorbed quickly and easily. Also examples that will clarify very basic doubts and not so basic ones.
It also provides useful recipes and samples, like building text menu applications, receiving input from keyboard, or using library paramiko to SSH to a Server with username and password and execute a command. Also I show how I created a Battleship game, a Guess my number game, a Tic Tac Toe, graphics generation...
This book is written in three languages:
- English (Main)
- Catalan
- Spanish
Everything is available in the three languages.
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Table of Contents
- Index for version 39. 3
- Contact me 7
- Receiving Free Updates 8
- If you’re not satisfied 9
- Some notes / Algunes notes / Algunas anotaciones 10
- MT Notation 11
- MT Notation (English) 11
- Just execute / Només executa / Solo ejecuta 12
- Exercise 1: index returned by .find() 12
- Exercise 2: for in range 13
- Exercise 3: New instance of a class 14
- Exercise 4: New instance of a class with Parameters 15
- Exercise 5: Math Operations order 16
- Basic exercises / Exercicis bàsics / Ejercicios básicos 18
- Exercise 1: Print numbers from 0 to 9. Use for and range. 18
- Exercise 1.1: Do the same with while instead of for and range. 19
- Exercise 2: Num1 exp Num2 20
- Exercise 3: Prints characters from "a" to "z". 23
- Ascii Table 25
- Exercise 4: Print even numbers for 0 to 20 27
- Exercise 4.1: Do it using while instead of for 28
- Exercise 5: Locate the index of a Substring in a String 30
- Exercise 6: Create a function that gets a String and prints each character in a line 31
- Access Strings by position 31
- Exercise 7: Scrap the title of a web 33
- Exercise 8: Reverse a String 37
- Exercise 8.1: Reverse a String using for 39
- Exercise 9: Phrase in diagonal 41
- Exercise 10: Number Translator 45
- Exercise 11: Create a function that using .rfind() return the index of the last position in a String passed by parameter 46
- Exercise 11.1: Create a function that using .find() returns the index position of the first occurrence of the substring searched for 46
- Exercise 11.2: Create a simple code that prints the index position of the first occurrence of the character “a” in the String without using any function (not .find(), etc…) 46
- Exercise 12: The minor number of 2. 47
- Exercise 13: The minor number of 3. 47
- Exercise 13: The minor number of n 47
- Exercise 13.1: The minor number of n 47
- Exercise 14: Create a function that does nothing and does not generate an error when it's called 47
- Exercise 15: Import library random and print a random number between 0 and 10. 48
- Exercise 16: Create a function that gets two parameters, i_min and i_max, and it generates a random number. Return it 48
- Exercise 17: Create a function that gets three parameters, i_min and i_max and i_numbers and it generates a list with i_numbers random numbers. Returns that array 49
- Exercise 18: Using the previous code, generate an Array of numbers 1,000 numbers between 0 and 255. 49
- Exercise 19: Numbers in words 51
- Exercise 20: translate numbers to the name of their position if the most optimal way in terms of usage of memory 53
- Exercise 21: Convert Bytes to KB 55
- Exercise 22: Count how many times “a” char appears in a text 56
- Exercise 23: Remove the accents of a Text 57
- Exercise 24: Count the char more used in a text, excluding spaces 59
- Exercise 25: Open a text file and print it’s contents on the screen prepending the line number 61
- Exercise 26: Calculate the average of several numbers 64
- Exercise 27: Create a Function to calculate the area of a circle of radius n 65
- Exercise 28: import the previous file area_of_a_circle.py and calculate the areas of circles of radius from 5 to 100 in increments of 5 (5, 10, 15...100). 67
- Exercise 29: Print the values from a tuple stored in an Array 68
- Arrays or Lists. Llistes. Listas 69
- Exercice 1: Print the items of the list, one per line 69
- Exercici 2: Sort the list using .sort() 71
- Exercise 2.1 [Difficult]: Sort the list without using .sort() 72
- Exercise 3: Using .count() method determine how many times a value appears in the Array 74
- Exercise 3.1 [Difficult]: Using a loop (avoid using .count() method) count how how many times a value appears in the Array 74
- Exercise 4: Last item of an Array 75
- Exercise 5: Print a new array that contains the last two items of the previous array using array slice 76
- Exercise 5: Sorting an Array on numbers with sorted 77
- Exercise 6: Sorting an String with sorted 77
- Exercise 7: repeat an array pattern n times 78
- Exercise 8: Create an Array with the values from 0 to 99. 79
- Exercise 9: Keep an Array always sorted 80
- Dictionary / Diccionaris / Diccionarios 81
- Exercise 1: The code (substitution using a dictionary) 81
- Exercise 2: Connect to a web page that returns a JSON and get your public Ip 82
- Exercise 3: Challenge lettersum 83
- Classes 87
- Exercise 1: Create a class with a constructor, that does nothing when created, but works 87
- Exercise 2: Create a class named MyCar with a constructor, with two parameters, one String, and the other Integer, that sets two properties (class variables) 88
- Exercise 3: Draw a map for your games 89
- Practical problems and Recipes 95
- Exercise 1: Ask the user for Y or N. 95
- Exercise 2: Function to ask for user input 96
- Exercise 3: Create a function that will ask a user for a number from Keyboard input, and return the result, only when the value is between the accepted ranges 97
- Exercise 4: Write a program that will keep the Unix Epoch time when the program starts, and when the program ends, and it will show the time spent by the program 105
- Exercise 5: Using Paramiko library, write a function to SSH to a Server and execute a command 106
- Exercise 6: Getting count, min, max, average 109
- Exercise 7: Redo the exercise 6 by using Arrays 115
- Graphics 116
- Use WordCloud to generate a .PNG cloud of words 116
- Graphic lines with matplotlib.pyplot 118
- Draw a pie chart 119
- Games 121
- Guess my number / Adivina el número 121
- Tic Tac Toe / 3 en ratlla / 3 en ralla 123
- Battleship / Enfonsar la flota / Hundir la flota 127
- Hard exercises 145
- Exercise 1: Using the previous code to generate random numbers, generate and array of 10,000 random Integer numbers and sort the array using the Algorithm Bubble Sort 145
- Exercise 1.1: Use the Unix epoch functions written before, to see the time used by the Bubble Sort algorithm 146
- Exercise 1.2: Using the previous program, remove everything unnecessary, except the last print to show the time 149
- Exercise 1.3: Using the previous program, replace the Bubble Sort by Python Sort, so: a_i_random.sort() 151
- Exercise 1.4: Increase the number of numbers generated to 100,000 and observe the differences in time between Bubble Sort and Python .sort() 151
- Exercise 1.5: Now repeat the exercise with the Python Sort and Bubble Sort, but instead of a range between 0 and 255, use 10,000,000 as max. Generate 10,000 numbers only. Note the times and your conclusions. 153
- Exercise 2: Create a dictionary that contains three places, and the continent, population, and a particularity. Then print all of them using a for loop. 154
- Exercise 3: Create a game program that generates a random number between 1 and 100, and you have to guess it 155
- Exercise 4: Create a class named MySql to connect, select, insert/update to a MySql Database Server 157
- Exercise 5: Define the SQL for MySQL, for creating a table named car_queue that keeps the list of a car manufacturer to be built 159
- Exercise 6: write a class named CarDO that keeps the Data for an object Car, and provides some getters and functions to retrieve the Data visually nicelly 161
- Exercise 7: Using the MySQL Lib you created, and the table you created, and the CarDO write a CLI program to List, Insert, Delete registers, and Search by Id. 163
- Challenge: Compare two Roman numbers 168
- Challenge Nonogram 171
- Quiz 173
- Q1: Copying an Array and modifying the array from the new variable 173
- Q2: Accessing global variables from a function 174
- Q3: Having in count the previous exercise, what will be the output of this code 176
- Q4: Will this generate a Warning? 177
- Q5: Can we have a function with more than an input parameter? 178
- Q6: Can a function or method return more than a parameter? 179
- Q7: What is the result of int(“1.first”) 180
- Q8: Can this be done in Python? 182
- Q9: What will this code print? 183
- Q10: What will this code print? 185
- Useful libraries 186
- Bibliography 191
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