1. Turtle Graphics
1.1 Getting Started
1.2 Calling Functions
1.3 Writing Functions
1.4 Repetition
1.5 Checking Conditions
1.6 Conditional Repetition
1.7 More Complex Choices
1.8 Randomness
1.9 Thinking with Functions
2. Numeric Data
2.1 Variables and Assignment
2.2 Calculations
2.3 Accumulation Loops
2.4 Accumulator Options
Project: Simulation
2.5 Numbers in Memory
2.6 Repeated Input
2.7 Lists of Numbers
2.8 List Indexing and Slicing
2.9 List Accumulation
2.10 Searching a List
2.11 Recursion
3. Text
3.1 Strings
3.2 String Accumulation
3.3 Text in Memory
3.4 String Processing
How-To: Output Formatting
3.5 Lists of Strings
3.6 Reading Text Files
Project: Word-Guessing Game
Project: Flash Cards
How-To: Reading Csv Files
3.7 Handling Exceptions
How-To: Writing Text Files
3.8 Dictionaries
Project: Eliza
Project: Reading DNA Frames
4. Images
4.1 Creating Images
4.2 Color Transformations
Project: Gamma Correction
Project: Color Quantization
4.3 Size Transformations
4.4 Geometric Transformations
4.5 Combining Images
Project: Image Filters
5. Objects and Classes
5.1 Using Turtle Objects
5.2 Writing Classes
5.3 Composition
5.4 Importing Classes
5.5 Inheritance
5.6 Graphical User Interfaces
Biography
Mark J. Johnson is professor of computer science and mathematics at Central College in Pella, Iowa, where he holds the Ruth and Marvin Denekas Endowed Chair in Science and Humanities. Mark is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison (Ph.D., mathematics) and St. Olaf College. He is the author of A Concise Introduction to Data Structures using Java, also published by Chapman & Hall/CRC Press.
