Learn Python the Hard Way has everything you need to start programming in Python ... he’s too young to understand recursion but he sure likes seeing the computer make really big factorial ...

You must be comfortable with Python programming. This includes basic control structures in Python: conditional branches, for loops and recursion; functions: defining and calling functions, and ...

Mathematical Background: We expect that the student is comfortable with basic mathematics at the level of a U.S. first-year college STEM student. This includes basic notions such as sets and functions ...