Python Beginners Workbook for Secondary Schools

The aim of this workbook, written by Ali Mulla, is to provide a simple introduction for students to programming in the language Python. The book contains examples, tasks for students to complete and space for students to write their observations and answers to questions posed. The topics covered are: dealing with strings, adding comments, mathematical operators, concatenation, variables, comparative operators, user inputs, statements, ‘If’ statements, data types, ‘while’ loops, other kinds of loops, inserting modules, defining a function and lists. All activities are written in contexts and using language which appeal to, and are relevant to, a student audience.