Tiny Python Projects

<p>Welcome <br>Preface. Why Write Python? Chapters <br>0 Getting Started: Introduction and Installation Guide <br>1 How to write and test a Python program <br>2 The Crow’s Nest: Working with strings <br>3 Going on a picnic: Working with lists <br>4 Jump the Five: Working with dictionaries <br>5 Howler: Working with files and STDOUT <br>6 Words Count: Reading files/STDIN, iterating lists, formatting strings <br>7 Gashlycrumb: Looking items up in a dictionary <br>8 Apples and Bananas: Find and replace <br>9 Dial-A-Curse: Generating random insults from lists of words <br>10 Telephone: Randomly mutating strings <br>11 Bottles of Beer Song: Writing and testing functions <br>12 Ransom: Randomly capitalizing text <br>13 Twelve Days of Christmas: Algorithm design <br>14 Rhymer: Using regular expressions to create rhyming words <br>15 The Kentucky Friar: More regular expressions <br>16 The Scrambler: Randomly reordering the middles of words <br>17 Mad Libs: Using regular expressions <br>18 Gematria: Numeric encoding of text using ASCII values <br>19 Workout Of the Day: Parsing CSV file, creating text table output <br>20 Password Strength: Generating a secure and memorable password <br>21 Tic-Tac-Toe: Exploring state <br>22 Tic-Tac-Toe Redux: An interactive version with type hints <br>App A. Using argparse <br>MEAP VERSION 6 <br>Epilogue</p>