What you'll learn
- Python language
- Learn the fundamentals in only two hours.
- Comes with cheat sheets (PDFs)
- No need to install any software
Course content
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Requirements
- No prerequisites
Description
Have you always wanted to learn Python – but were too busy to spend hours and hours with a course? Or perhaps you thought you needed to have a technical background?
Well, you don’t. In this course, you’ll get the fundamentals of Python in only two hours. I’ll walk you through the process with clear definitions and examples. Oh, and there will be no need to install large amounts of software and frameworks on your computer. Instead, I’ll be working with an easy cloud-based Python app.
This course also comes with a variety of cheat sheets for your future reference.
Overview of the Course
My teaching philosophy comes from the Nike playbook: “Just do it!” So in this course, I will go through lots of interesting examples that you can code along with. But I will also show you how to learn by making errors!
In this course, we’ll:
See how comments can help document your code.
Look at ways to debug your programming.
Use data types like strings and numbers.
Cover dictionaries and lists, which are powerful data structures such as for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.
Look at how to use coding structures like if/else statements, loops and while loops.
See how to use functions to make your code more readable and reusable.
And then finally, we’ll put everything together by creating a cool program. I will also continue to refresh the material for this course.
Are there any course requirements or prerequisites?
There’s no programming experience required.
There’s also no special software needed.
Who this course is for:
Anyone that wants a great beginner’s guide for Python.
Those who are looking for a change in their career.
Who this course is for:
- Non-technical people who want to learn the Python language
Instructor
![Tom Taulli](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 64 64"%3E%3C/svg%3E){kind=avatar}
- 4.6 Instructor Rating
- 59 Reviews
- 224 Students
- 2 Courses
I’ve been in the tech industry for some time. While in the eighth grade, my dad bought me a computer and just left it on my desk. So I started to figure it out. And yes, I became obsessed with this machine. Then when I was a freshman in high school, I started to code and sold some of my programs to magazines (in the early 1980s, these publications had listings of code for readers to type in!) From all this, I knew I wanted to be a part of the tech world.
Although, it was not until college that I started my first business. You see, I was fairly bad at taking exams. What to do? Well, I created software for exam preparation. I would sell this to a national provider of bar exam preparation. The business would then go on to grow, as we added more and more exams.
But the biggest venture of mine was launched in 1997. It was Hypermart. Think of it as kind of a first-generation Shopify. From the start, the growth was strong and we would sell the company to InfoSpace.
In the meantime, I have always been writing, such as for Forbes (where I currently write a weekly column). I have also written a variety of books, with my latest being Artificial Intelligence Basics: A Non-Technical Introduction.
As of now, I’m an advisor to some awesome startups.