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Paris, 1980. The literary critic Roland Barthes dies―struck by a laundry van―after lunch with the presidential...

In Starting Out with Python^TM, Tony Gaddis’ evenly paced, accessible coverage introduces students to the basics of programming and prepares them to transition into more complicated languages. Python, an easy-to-learn and increasingly popular object-oriented language, allows readers to become comfortable with the...

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