Python for Informatics
Exploring Information

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Charles Severance

Copyright © 2009-2013 Charles Severance.
Printing history:
October 2013: Major revision to Chapters 13 and 14 to switch to JSON and use OAuth.
Added new chapter on Visualization.
September 2013: Published book on Amazon CreateSpace
January 2010: Published book using the University of Michigan Espresso Book machine.
December 2009: Major revision to chapters 2-10 from Think Python: How to Think Like a Computer Scientist and writing chapters 1 and 11-15 to produce Python for Informatics: Exploring Information
June 2008: Major revision, changed title to Think Python: How to Think Like a Computer Scientist.
August 2007: Major revision, changed title to How to Think Like a (Python) Programmer.
April 2002: First edition of How to Think Like a Computer Scientist.

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Preface
Python for Informatics: Remixing an Open Book
It is quite natural for academics who are continuously told to “publish or perish” to want to always create something from scratch that is their own fresh creation.
This book is an experiment in not starting from scratch, but instead “re-mixing” the book titled Think Python: How to Think Like a Computer Scientist written by
Allen B. Downey, Jeff Elkner and others.
In December of 2009, I was preparing to teach SI502 - Networked Programming at the University of Michigan