Learn Python for Total Beginners
From newbie to pro in a day with 7 brain-teasing exercises and full solutions provided.
What you’ll learn
Learn Python for Total Beginners
- What lists, tuples and dictionaries are, and how to use them
- How to apply control flow (logic) to code
- Handle errors
- Create and implement functions
- How to convert functions into lambdas
- How to convert for loops into a list comprehension
- How to use for loops and while loops
- How to format strings
- Work with text files
Requirements
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A PC or laptop with internet access
Description
This course teaches you the fundamentals of any programming language, with Python 3.6 and Anaconda 5.0.0 with Jupyter Notebook!
The course is suitable for those who are either completely new to programming or are coming from another programming language (R, JavaScript, etc) and are keen to get a solid grasp of using Python.
You’ll be learning:
- Installing Jupyter Notebook IDE
- Using all the vital features of the Jupyter Notebook
- Variables and comparison operators
- Strings, slicing, and formatting
- Lists, Dictionaries, and Tuples
- Control flow (if, elif, else)
- Advanced for loops and while loops
- List comprehension
- Functions and built-in functions
- Random module
- Lambda expressions
- Handling errors
- Working with text files
There are a total of 7 exercises between sections 3 to 8 with brain teasing tasks, along with full solutions provided in both lectures and pdf format.
This course will be updated this month (12/2017) with extra content.
This is a taster of multiple up-and-coming courses I have in the pipeline, primarily in Python, but also in other programming languages which will be released very soon!
P.S. I’d appreciate a 5-star review for this free course as that would help me out a lot to create more content. If you’d rather give a low review, please do so after completing at least 50% of the course.
Who this course is for:
- Newbies to programming or new to Python
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