
Install Python on Windows by downloading from the official Python site, reinstalling if needed, and ensure add to path is checked to run Python from anywhere; choose the 32-bit installer.
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Install Sublime Text as the text editor for writing Python code. Download, install, and run code using Sublime Text and the command prompt across Windows, Linux, and Mac.
Learn to set up a Python project, create and save your first hello world program as a .py file, and run it from the command line.
Learn how to use comments to explain code and manage variables in Python, and see how to clear the screen and annotate blocks for teamwork.
Learn how Python variables serve as named containers, created by assignment with a descriptive name like first_name, using underscores and case sensitivity, and how to print, update, or clear them.
Explore string manipulation in Python by treating strings as objects and applying methods like upper, lower, capitalize, and title to transform text; learn indexing, slicing, len, and split for extraction.
Explains basic math in python, including addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, exponent, and modulus, with print examples and the role of order of operations and parentheses.
Explore the difference between floats and integers in Python, learn how division yields floats, how to round numbers with round, and how to convert values to integers for precise control.
See how assignment operators like +=, -=, *=, /=, **=, and %= update variables in place, with examples that increment counters and maintain running totals such as a shopping cart.
Explore lists in Python programming for everyone: create lists with mixed data, access items via zero-based indices, modify by updating, deleting, and appending, and use len to find last item.
Learn about tuples, the immutable, parentheses-based sequences faster than lists, with indexing and slicing via ranges. See how to build new tuples from existing ones to simulate changes.
Learn to create and manipulate dictionaries in Python, using keys and values, updating and deleting items, and printing the dictionary for readability.
Explore Python's comparison operators—from equals to greater than or less than, and their equal variants—applied to numbers, strings, and other data types, with booleans indicating true or false.
Explore how to use if, else, and elif with comparison operators to control program flow, including indentation, colons, and practical examples with numbers.
Explore multiple conditional statements with and and or; see how all conditions must be true for and and at least one for or, using if, elif, and else.
Learn how to implement while loops in Python using a counter to repeat actions until a condition is met, and avoid infinite loops by incrementing the counter.
Build a small Python program that prints numbers 1 to 100, replacing multiples of 3 with fizz, multiples of 5 with buzz, and multiples of both with fizz buzz.
Learn how to build your own functions in Python, call them with arguments, and pass parameters, while understanding function definitions, scope, and the importance of placing definitions before calls.
Practice using Python functions by returning values instead of printing, assign results to variables, and apply operations like upper to transform data for flexible program control.
Explore Python modules by importing built-in ones from the Python 3 module index and creating your own namer module to organize code and reuse functions across programs.
Explore how classes act as blueprints in Python's object oriented paradigm, like a factory producing outputs and objects from inputs. Prepare to build your first class in the next video.
Practice building a Python class with parameters, instantiating objects with side length, and using self to store attributes while exploring dot notation for numbers and strings.
Discover how to create a basic Python class with an initialization method, implement area and perimeter methods for a square, and use self and indentation for clean, reusable code.
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In this course we'll learn the Python version 3 programming language from an absolute Beginner level all the way to Advanced in no time at all!
This course is aimed at the absolute beginner, you don't need any coding experience at all!
We'll start out by setting downloading and installing Python and the Sublime Text Editor - both for free. This will give you all the tools you need to start writing and running Python code.
Then, we'll dive into very basic computer science concepts. Things like:
After that, we'll move into more intermediate topics like:
Finally we'll finish up with more advanced topics like:
Python is one of the greatest programming languages to learn, and learning has never been this easy!
I'll see you on the inside!
-John Elder