No Nonsense Python: learn Python basics and start coding

Understand how variables act as reserved memory locations that store values of any data type, including lists, enabling aliases and overwriting to improve readability by naming concepts like interest rate.

Reassign values and create new variables from existing ones in Python, overwrite with different types to show dynamic typing, and use arithmetic to double a variable.

Create and interact with Python lists, access items by index and -1 for the last element, and modify with append, remove, or del; copy, clear, and compute min and max.

Explore tuples, which are like lists but immutable; learn their faster performance and lower memory usage, how to define with parentheses, index elements, and when to use static lookups.

Explore dictionaries as key-value stores in Python, learning how to define, access, update, iterate, and delete fields, use get with default for missing data, and perform fast lookups.

Learn how comments describe what happens in your Python program and why they help future you and others. Use # and triple quotes; comments don't affect functionality.

Explore the theory of if statements in Python, using an age-based conditional to print results or withhold service, demonstrating how logic guides data processing.

Explore the theory of loops by comparing for loops and while loops with a list of towns, printing each town in uppercase and tracking index i.

Explore for loops in python by iterating over a cities list, printing each city, and calculating coin change with a coins list, using int casting for counts.

Learn how code structure and indentation define blocks in Python, using if and while statements, and avoid common mistakes that create infinite loops by misindenting.

Learn practical string functions in Python, including stripping whitespace, changing case, replacing characters, splitting, and joining to clean postcode-like input for data processing.

Understand the theory of functions in Python, a reusable block of code that performs a task, like loan validity, defined with def, parameters, and a colon to keep code modular.

Define a function to calculate change and pass the change as a parameter. Reuse this function to keep your code tidy and manageable, and handle multiple parameters when needed.

Explore ways to apply your Python basics as you start coding, tackle simple projects like checking for repeating letters and palindromes, and automate tedious daily tasks.