Learning Python 3 Programming for the Absolute Beginner

The two main software components you will need for this course is the Python3 Interpreter and the PyCharm Community Edition IDE. This video reviews the steps to install the software needed

We create our first Python program which is a hello world application

We will cover the history of the Python programming language and discuss some of its main features and characteristics

Students will understand how to declare, define and use variables in Python

We look at how variables are declared and defined in Python in code

Students will understand how to write comments in Python

We cover the various ways that the print() function in Python can be used to display output

We review the challenges for working with print statements

We review the solutions to the print() statement challenges

We cover at a high level the most commonly used Data Types in Python

A high level look at the various Data Types in Python and how to initialize them

A look at how we can perform casting from one Data Type to another in Python.

An overview of Strings in Python

We take a deeper look into how we can manipulate strings and use convenience functions and methods to operate on strings.

We continue the discussion on  how we can manipulate strings and use convenience functions and methods to operate on strings.

We review the challenges for working with Strings

We review the solution to our Strings challenge

The basic types of Operators in Python are covered

We look at practical examples of Operators in Python

We review the challenge questions for the topic on Operators

We review the solution to our challenge on Operators

We discuss a high level overview of the most popular Collections of Data Structures that are present in Python

We discuss an overview of lists in Python

We look at Lists in code to understand how to work with this collection

We continue our discussion on lists in Python

We review the challenge questions that pertain to Lists in Python

We look at the solution to our Lists challenge

We review the high level characteristics of Sets

We look at Sets in code to understand how to work with this collection

We continue our discussion on working with Sets in Python

We look at the challenge questions around Sets.

We review the solutions for the Sets challenges

We review the high level characteristics of Tuples

We look at Tuples in code to understand how to work with this collection

We review the challenge question for Tuples

We review the solution to the challenge on Tuples

We review the high level characteristics of Dictionaries

We look at Dictionaries in code to understand how to work with this collection

We continue our discussion on working with Dictionaries in Python

We review the challenge for Dictionaries

We review the solution for Dictionaries

We discuss at a high level the variety of ways that looping and conditional checks can be executed in Python

We take an in-depth look at if statements in Python

We continue our discussions on how if statements can be used in Python

We look at why statements in Python and how they can be used.

We examine for statements and how they are used in Python

We look at the challenge questions on the topics of Conditionals and Looping

We look at the solution to the first challenge for Conditionals and Looping

We look at the solution to the second challenge for Conditionals and Looping