This book is a student-friendly compendium of 212 exercises that span a variety of academic disciplines and everyday situations paired with concise introductions to the programming concepts needed to complete them. Accessible and easy to follow, the textbook encourages development of programming skills through active practice and hands-on learning. Thoroughly updated and expanded, this strong revised edition includes new sections on debugging, additional exercises in all chapters, and extensive revisions that reflect current practice, increase clarity, and ease comprehension. The exercises and solutions require no prior background knowledge, beyond the material covered in a typical introductory Python course.