(EBOOK PDF)Introduction to Computing and Programming in Python 4th Edition by Mark Guzdial 9781292109862 full chapters

Introduction to Computer Science and Media Computation

• What Is Computer Science About?
• Programming Languages
• What Computers Understand
• Media Computation: Why Digitize Media?
• Computer Science for Everyone
  • It’s About Communication
  • It’s About Process
  • You Will Probably Need It

Introduction to Programming

• Programming Is About Naming
• Programming in Python
• Programming in JES
• Media Computation in JES
  • Files and Their Names
• Making a Program
  • Showing a Picture
  • Playing a Sound
  • Naming Values
  • Variable Recipes: Real Math-Like Functions That Take Input

Creating and Modifying Text

• Strings: Making Strings
• Taking Strings Apart with For
  • Making Strings from Strings: Telling Stories
  • Testing the Pieces
  • Taking String Apart, and Putting Strings Together
  • Taking Strings Apart with Indices
  • Mirroring, Reversing, and Separating Strings with Index
  • Encoding and Decoding Strings Using a Keyword Cipher
• Taking Strings Apart by Words
• What’s Inside a String
• What a Computer Can Do

Modifying Pictures Using Loops

• How Pictures Are Encoded
• Manipulating Pictures
• Changing Color Values
  • Exploring Pictures
  • Using Loops in Pictures
  • Increasing/Decreasing Red (Green, Blue)
  • Testing the Program: Did That Really Work?
  • Changing One Color at a Time
• Making Sense of Functions
• Creating a Sunset
• Lightening and Darkening
• Creating a Negative
• Converting to Grayscale
• Specifying Pixels by Index

Picture Techniques with Selection

• Replacing Colors: Red-Eye, Sepia Tones, and Posterizing
  • Reducing Red-Eye
  • Sepia-Toned and Posterized Pictures: Using Conditionals to Choose the Color
• Comparing Pixels: Edge Detection
• Background Subtraction
• Chromakey
• Coloring in ranges
  • Adding a Border
  • Lightening the Right Half of a Picture
• Selecting without Retesting

Modifying Pixels by Position

• Processing Pixels Faster
  • Looping across the Pixels with Range
  • Writing Faster Pixel Loops
• Mirroring a Picture
• Copying and Transforming Pictures
  • Copying
  • Copying Smaller and Modifying
  • Copying and Referencing
  • Creating a Collage
  • General Copying
  • Rotation
  • Scaling
• Combining Pixels: Blurring
• Blending Pictures
• Drawing on Images
• Programs as Specifying Drawing Process
  • Drawing with Drawing Commands
  • Vector and Bitmap Representations
• Why Do We Write Programs?

Sounds

• Modifying Sounds Using Loops
  • How Sound Is Encoded
  • Manipulating Sounds
  • Changing the Volume of Sounds
  • The Physics of Sound
  • Investigating Different Sounds
  • Encoding the Sound
  • Binary Numbers and Two’s Complement
  • Storing Digitized Sounds
  • Open Sounds and Manipulating Samples
  • Using the JES MediaTools
  • Looping
  • Increasing Volume
  • Did That Really Work?
  • Decreasing Volume
  • Using Array Index Notation
  • Making Sense of Functions in Sounds
  • Generating Clipping
• Normalizing Sounds

Modifying Samples in a Range

• Manipulating Different Sections of the Sound Differently
• Splicing Sounds
• General Clip and Copy
• Reversing Sounds
• Mirroring
• On Functions and Scope

Making Sounds by Combining Pieces

• Composing Sounds Through Addition
• Blending Sounds
• Creating an Echo
  • Revisiting Index Array Notation
  • Creating Multiple Echoes
  • Creating Chords
• How Sampling Keyboards Work
• Additive Synthesis
• Modern Music Synthesis
  • Making Sine Waves
  • Adding Sine Waves Together
  • Checking Our Result
  • Square Waves
  • Triangular Waves
  • MP3
  • MIDI

Building Bigger Programs

• Designing Programs Top-Down
  • A Top-Down Design Example
  • Designing the Top-Level Function
• Designing Programs Bottom-Up
• Testing Your Program
• Tips on Debugging
  • Writing the Subfunctions
  • An Example Bottom-Up Process
  • Testing the Edge Conditions
  • Finding Which Statement to Worry About
  • Seeing the Variables
  • Debugging the Adventure Game
• Algorithms and Design
• Connecting to Data outside a Function
• Running Programs Outside of JES

Manipulating Text with Methods and Files

• Text as Unimedia
• Manipulating Parts of Strings
• Files: Places to Put Your Strings and Other Stuff
• The Python Standard Library
  • String Methods: Introducing Objects and Dot Notation
  • Lists: Powerful, Structured Text
  • Strings Have No Font
  • Opening and Manipulating Files
  • Generating Form Letters
  • Reading and Manipulating Data from the Internet
  • Scraping Information from a Web Page
  • Reading CSV Data
  • Writing Out Programs
  • More on Import and Your Own Modules
  • Adding Unpredictably to Your Program with Random
  • Reading CSV Files with a Library
  • A Sampling of Python Standard Libraries

Advanced Text Techniques: Web and Information

• Networks: Getting Our Text from the Web
  • Automating Access to CSV Data
  • Accessing FTP
• Using Text to Shift Between Media
• Moving Information Between Media
• Using Lists as Structured Text for Media Representations
• Hiding Information in a Picture
  • Hiding a Sound Inside a Picture

Making Text for the Web

• HTML: The Notation of the Web
• Writing Programs to Generate HTML
• Databases: A Place to Store Our Text
  • Making Home Pages
  • Relational Databases
  • An Example Relational Database Using HashTables
  • Working with SQL
  • Using a Database to Build Web Pages

Creating and Modifying Movies

• Generating Animations
• Working with Video Source
• Building a Video Effect Bottom-Up
• Video Manipulating Examples

Speed

• Focusing on Computer Science
• What Makes Programs Fast?
• What Makes a Computer Fast?
  • Video Manipulating Examples
  • Clock Rates and Actual Computation
  • Storage: What Makes a Computer Slow?
  • Display
• What Computers Really Understand
• Compilers and Interpreters
• What Limits Computer Speed?
• Does It Really Make a Difference?
• Making Searching Faster
• Algorithms That Never Finish or Can’t Be Written
• Why Is Photoshop Faster than JES?

Functional Programming

• Using Functions to Make Programming Easier
• Functional Programming with Map and Reduce
• Functional Programming for Media
• Recursion: A Powerful Idea
  • Media Manipulation Without Changing State
  • Recursive Directory Traversals
  • Recursive Media Functions

Object Oriented Programming

• History of Objects
• Working with Turtles
  • Classes and Objects
  • Sending Messages to Objects
  • Objects Control Their State
• Teaching Turtles New Tricks
  • Overriding an Existing Turtle Method
  • Working with Multiple Turtles at Once
  • Turtles with Pictures
  • Dancing Turtles
  • Recursion and Turtles
• Making the Slide Class More Object-Oriented
• An Object-Oriented Slide Show
• Object-Oriented Media
• Joe the Box
• Why Objects?

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