Learn Python for Total Beginners

Name: Learn Python for Total Beginners
Rating: 4.4 (5545 reviews)

From newbie to pro in a day with 7 brain teasing exercises and full solutions provided.

Free tutorial

(5,545 ratings)

153,794 students

6hr 42min of on-demand video

Created by Michael S Russell

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What lists, tuples and dictionaries are, and how to use them

How to apply control flow (logic) to code

Handle errors

Create and implement functions

How to convert functions into lambdas

How to convert for loops into list comprehension

How to use for loops and while loops

How to format strings

Work with txt files

Requirements

A PC or laptop with internet access

Description

This course teaches you the fundamentals of any programming language, with Python 3.6 and Anaconda 5.0.0 with Jupyter Notebook!

The course is suitable for those are either completely new to programming, or are coming from another programming language (R, JavaScript, etc) and are keen to get a solid grasp of using Python.

You'll be learning:

Installing Jupyter Notebook IDE
Using all the vital features of Jupyter Notebook
Variables and comparison operators
Strings, slicing and formatting
Lists, Dictionaries and Tuples
Control flow (if, elif, else)
Advanced for loops and while loops
List comprehension
Functions and built-in functions
Random module
Lambda expressions
Handling errors
Working with text files

There are a total of 7 exercises between sections 3 to 8 with brain teasing tasks, along with full solutions provided in both lectures and in pdf format.

This course will be updated this month (12/2017) with extra content.

This is a taster of multiple up and coming courses I have in the pipeline, primarily in Python, but also other programming languages which will be released very soon!

P.S. I'd appreciate a 5 star review for this free course as that would help me out a lot to create to more content. If you'd rather give a low review, please do so after completing at least 50% of the course.

Who this course is for:

Newbies to programming or new to Python

Featured review

T.Avinash R.

318 courses

13 reviews

2 years ago

working with the exercises are lot more perfect enough for the modules that are covered ,for performing each exercise. course is super clear and i feel like i should definitely recommend this course to all... more over i felt better about exercises

Michael S Russell

Data Analyst - Instructor - Entrepreneur

4.4 Instructor Rating
5,610 Reviews
154,958 Students
2 Courses

Hi, I'm Michael S. Russell. I'm a recent post-graduate with BEng in Petroleum Engineering and a MSc in Financial Mathematics.

For my MSc dissertation, I created a Google Trends trading algorithm using Python, and have been programming with this awesome language for around 3 years now.

I've found a genuine passion for teaching not only Python, but all programming languages such as C# with Unity 3D, HTML, CSS, JavaScript and R.

I'm keen on reaching out and teaching as many people as possible. I create free versions of my paid courses as an ultimate freebie that helps satiate any students curiousity. I also take any constructive criticism on board so that I can further improve my ability to teach you, the student to not only learn, but most importantly of all, have fun!

Happy coding!