What you'll learn

A conscientous and talented student, upon completion of the entire Pythonic Python course will be an expert in the core of Python, and in Pythonic code, bringing maximum efficiency for programmer and program alike.
A student who needs less expertise for now, and who sees this material as a smogasboard of "too much", can learn as much of Python as suits.
From this Part I, a student will become familiar in a Python development environment, deal with stdio and error handling, branching, looping, and function protocols; and be ready to use any of the thousands of Python 2 libraries.

Course content

16 sections • 28 lectures • 3h 2m total length

Welcome3:27
Welcome! And suggestions for making the best use of this course.
The Supplementary Material here is the pdf for all 14 labs, and all the code.

The Python 2 interpreter running on your computer, any operating system. The interpreter is available for free at http://python.org/download/.
A Python development environment. Perhaps your favorite environment can be made to be Python-aware. The "Idle" development environment comes into your computer when you bring in the Python interpreter. Use that if you don't already have a favorite environment.

This is Pythonic Python - Part I of a complete Python course for programmers, in four parts.

The focus, besides learning Python, is learning Pythonic idioms so that your code is beautiful, easy to read and modify, and fast-running.

The Syllabus:

Part I - The Python Basics

Make yourself useful.

Part II The Buzz

Heavy-hitting, time-saving, fun facilities.

Part III Pythonic OOP

So brilliant, you might need shades.

Part IV The Expert

Know it all.