
Think Raku: How to Think Like a Computer Scientist - 2nd edition
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Laurent Rosenfeld
Allen B. Downey, Olin College
Copyright Year: 2017
ISBN 13: 9781491980552
Publisher: Green Tea Press
Language: English
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Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
CC BY-NC-SA
Table of Contents
Preface
I Starting with the Basics
- 1 The way of the program
- 2 Variables, Expressions and Statements
- 3 Functions
- 4 Loops, Conditionals and Recursion
- 5 Fruitful Subroutines
- 6 Iteration
- 7 Strings
- 8 Case study: Word Play
- 9 Arrays and Lists
- 10 Hashes
- 11 Case study: Data Structure Selection
II Moving Forward
- 12 Classes and Objects
- 13 Regexes and Grammar
- 14 Functional Programming in Raku
- 15 Some Final Advice
Ancillary Material
About the Book
The title of this book was originally Think Perl 6, but since Perl 6 has been renamed Raku, we have also changed the title of the book.
Think Raku is an introduction to computer science and programming intended for people with little or no experience.
This aim of this book is not primarily to teach Raku, but instead to teach the art of programming, using the Raku language. After having completed this book, you should hopefully be able to write programs to solve relatively difficult problems in Raku, but my main aim is to teach computer science, software programming, and problem solving rather than solely to teach the Raku language itself.
Think Raku is a free book available under a Creative Commons license. Readers are free to copy and distribute the text; they are also free to modify it, which allows them to adapt the book to different needs, and to help develop new material.
About the Contributors
Authors
Laurent Rosenfeld
Allen Downey, Professor of Computer Science at Olin College in Needham MA, and the author of Think Python, Think Bayes, Think Stats and other books related to computer science and data science.