Context

• Motivation for This Book
  • Pedagogy
  • Why Python?
  • Characteristics of Python
  • Programming in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
  • Software Engineering, Automation, and Prototyping
• Resources Online
  • The Interactive Shell
  • Alternate Formats
• Computer Science, Broadly
  • Algorithms
  • Data
  • Abstraction
  • Why This Matters
• Chapter Review Questions