Course Overview
- Introduction
- Course Resources & Important Notes for New Students
- Course Curriculum Overview
- Why Learn Python?
- List of the most common uses for Python
- Python 2 and Python 3
- Summary
- Introduction of Python
Getting Started
- Downloading and Installing Python
- Using the Python Shell & IDLE
- IDLE-Your Coding Environment
- How to Customize Python IDLE
- Hello World! - Writing our First Program
- Adding Comments
- How to Find Help
- Five (5) Beginner Tips for Learning python Programming
- Summary
- Exercise 1: Adding Comments
- Getting Started
Variables and Operators
- Variables
- Exercise 2: Variables
- Arithmetic Operators
- Logical (Boolean) & Chained Comparison Operators
- Summary
- Variables
- Exercise 3: Operators & Variables
- Variables and Operators
Simple Data Types
- Strings
- String Operators & Built-In Functions
- Python 3's f-Strings: An Improved String Formatting Syntax
- Exercise 4: Strings
- String Indexing
- String Slicing
- Integers
- Floating Point Numbers & Complex Numbers
- The Difference Between Strings and Numbers
- Type Casting
- Simple Data Types
- Dates and Times
- Summary
- Simple Data Types
Making your Program Interactive
- Print()
- More Print() Formatting Methods
- Input()
- Exercise 5: INPUT()
- Using int() to Accept Numerical Input
- PROJECT: Create a Receipt Printing Program
- Summary
- Quiz 5: Making your Program Interactive
Lists - Tuples - Dictionaries - Sets
- What is a List?
- Working with Lists
- Making Numerical Lists
- Printing Lists
- Exercise 6: Lists
- Quiz 6: Lists
- Tuples
- Tuple Assignment, Packing, and Unpacking
- Working with Dictionaries
- Sets
- Exercise 7: Dictionaries
- Summary
- Quiz 7: Dictionaries
Statements and Loops
- If Statements
- EXAMPLES of Using the if Statement in an Application
- for Loops
- EXAMPLES of Using the for Statement
- while Loops
- Break & Continue
- Exercise 8: for Loops
- Exercise 9: if statement
- PROJECT: Guessing Game
- Summary
- Quiz 8: Statements and Loops
Advanced Methods of Lists & Dictionaries
- Using if Statements with Lists
- Using for Loops with Lists
- Using a while Loop with Lists and Dictionaries
- Creating Stacks Using Lists
- Searching and Sorting Lists
- Looping Through a Dictionary
- Replacing the switch statement with a dictionary
- Working with the Counter Object
- PROJECT: Improved Guessing Game (version 2) - PART 1
- PROJECT: Improved Guessing Game (version 2) - PART 2
- PROJECT: Improved Guessing Game (version 2) - PART 3
- Advanced Methods of Lists & Dictionaries
Functions
- What are Functions?
- Built-In Functions
- List of Python Built-In Functions
- Defining your Own Function
- More Built-In Functions
- Global and Local Scopes
