Student's Guide to Python 3 - Part 1

Write your first Python program by printing strings and numbers, grasp syntax and quotation marks, and use hashtags for comments; learn Mac and Windows shortcuts to comment code.

Explore Python variables by identifying integers, floats, booleans, and strings, and assigning and updating their values. Learn to print results and concatenate strings with proper spacing using Python syntax.

Explore how Python applies the order of operations, and master arithmetic operators: addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, exponents, parentheses, and modulo.

Build a Python grocery shopping project: define items, counts, and prices, manage a cart and sales tax, and print a receipt plus remaining stock.

Learn how the input function captures user input, use if statements with == to compare choices, and convert strings to integers with int() for numeric operations.

Master boolean operators in Python with not, and, or, and learn their order of operations through step-by-step examples, if statements, and real-world age scenarios.

This lecture guides building an interactive text adventure in Python, teaching user input, string normalization with lower(), and branching choices among dagger, sword, and short club to escape a dungeon.