Python for Beginners

About This Course

See why over 310,000 Necomitt Academy students learn coding from Mark Lassoff!

Few programming languages provide you with the flexibility and pure power of Python.

If you’re becoming a professional developer, or are early in your web development career, adding the Python skill set isn’t just a resume embellishment– It’s an empowering language that will allow you to write procedural code in many types of environments and for many uses.

Python is commonly used for server-side programming for complex web applications or as a middle-tier language providing web services or a communication layer with larger e-commerce systems. It’s also a great language for beginners. The clear syntax makes it very easy to learn, and the powerful libraries make all types of programming possible. There are libraries for everything from games and graphics to complex mathematics to network and embedded programming.

Watch, Learn, and Do

Programming is not a spectator sport and if you want to learn Python well, this course contains everything you need.

Skill-oriented instructor-led and -guided lectures will demonstrate each important Python skill. You’ll be able to study and modify the code on your own to cement each topic. Python code-coding lab exercises will familiarize you not just with Python syntax, but how real problem-solving in Python is done. You’ll complete a more comprehensive project to help you integrate the different skills that are part of core Python.

Learning Objectives

How to use the Python Shell

How to use interactive mode in Python

How to develop and run programs in the IDLE editor

How to run Python scripts directly from the command line

How to use the print () function

How to use separators and new line characters to modify command line output

Assign variables of different types

Understand integer, floating point, complex, and string variables

Be able to extract substrings

Easily concatenate strings

Create Lists and Tuples

Create key-value pairs and store them in dictionaries

Understand mathematical operators used in Python

Apply the order of operations to mathematical operations

Utilize comparison operators to determine logical outcomes

Use logical operators to join comparisons

Write conditional statements to correctly branch code

Use If, else and else if statements to apply to branch

Understand how and when to use nested if statements

Use the shortcut Ternary operator

Be able to use looping structures effectively

Create While loops

Be able to use For loops to loop through an object’s properties

Be able to construct nested loops and understand their utility.

Cast variables from one type to another using built-in Python functions

Use the Mathematical functions within Python to evaluate expressions

Randomize numbers and selections with the Randomization tools

Use Python String functions such as find (), join () and split ()

Create immutable tuples

Access values within tuples

Use tuple functions to manipulate tuple data

Declare a dictionary and populate it with key/value pairs

Access and edit values within dictionaries

Extract date and time information from the time tuple

Use the calendar object to work with calendar-related information

Create custom functions

Send arguments to functions using order or keyword

Create default function arguments

Read and obtain keyboard input

Read from a text file and process the data in Python

Write to a text file from Python

Append to a text file

Handle exceptions with try/except/else in Python

Use Python within the cgi-bin or a web server

Process form data from Python

Requirements

Students should be comfortable working in the PC or Mac operating system

Target Audience

First-time Python programmers
Students and teachers
IT pros who want to learn to code or coding
Aspiring data scientists who want to add Python to their tool arsenal

Curriculum

29 Lessons

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