Learn Python: Python for Beginners

We cover the basics of how Python works.

We're going to learn about basic variables and work with them.

We're going to cover the string datatype, as well as some of it's basic operations.

We cover the basics of lists as well as some of its operations.

Learn how to map (key, value) pairs using dictionaries in Python, and why the'y're useful.

We're going to go over how Tuples work, as well as some of the basic things we can do with them.

We'll quickly cover how to unpack tuples.

Exercise for section two. A document has been attached with a short guideline.

We're quickly covering the short exercise's solution.

We cover how to use if, elif, and else in this lecture using variables and strings.

We cover how basic for loops work in Python using strings and lists as examples.

Covers while loops, and compares them to for loops to understand when to use them.

Covers the different uses of break, continue, and pass, in loops.

We're going to go through the basics exercise again and use some dictionary methods as well as a for loop to get to the solution.

Shows how our "hello world" program can say something else using user inputs.

We'll cover how exceptions work in try, except blocks.

We're going to cover what functions are as well as how we can create them and use them.

We'll cover opening and reading files, as well as going back to the start of a file.

We'll cover writing to files as well as alternative methods.

We go through copy over a text file, and loop at reading files line by line.

We're going to get started with object-oriented programming by covering how to create classes in Python. The attached document resource includes some of the main terminology that is involved for this section.

We'll use the class from last lecture to work with objects. Learn to create objects, and use their methods.