Getting Started with Python (No Prior Knowledge Needed)

Explore what Python is, why it's open source and free, and how its easy learning curve, modular ecosystem, and vast community fuel desktop, web, and data visualization projects.

Learn about Python shells, the interactive environments between you and the Python interpreter, where you write code and see outputs, with options like Visual Studio, Spider, and Atom.

Learn to use the Python shell in Visual Studio, create a Python project, install modules like web scraping and cryptography with package manager or pip, and run code with F5.

Master printing text in Python with the print function, using 'Hello, world' and noting that quotes create strings, while numbers stay numeric, with comments in Visual Studio and no modules.

Explore how arithmetic operators in Python perform calculations, including addition, subtraction, division, multiplication, modulus, floor division, and the power operator. Review modulus, floor division, and the power operator.

Learn how variables store values, are named freely without quotes, and can be updated to print 3, then 4, then 5.

Learn how lists, tuples, and dictionaries store values, and access data by index (zero-based) or key. Understand mutability, noting that lists and dictionaries are mutable while tuples are immutable.

Learn how to edit lists in Python by printing a list, checking its length, and using remove, append, and pop to modify items with zero-based indexing.

Learn to import and use modules in Python, explore the math module, assign aliases or import specific functions to run operations like square root.

Explore loops in Python by using while and for loops to iterate lists and dictionaries, print values, and build and update lists with range-based examples.

Learn how to define and call functions as blocks of reusable code. Explore examples like adding two numbers and calculating the area of a triangle from base and height.

Learn how to define classes to create objects, access attributes with dot notation, and use __init__ to set name and age, illustrating object oriented programming with two-numbers and person example.

Practice after mastering loops and functions to become really good at programming in Python. Explore other courses available in Excel and check my YouTube channel for more learning opportunities.