Learning Python for Beginners Step-by-Step

Python: data types, variables, strings, manipulating strings, user input, conditionals, if/elif/else statements and more

Language: english

Note: 4.4/5 (28 notes) 7,488 students

Instructor(s): Vitalii Shumylo

Last update: 2022-10-19

What you’ll learn

Learn Python from scratch
Understand the basics of Python language
Manipulate strings and data
Understand user input
Much more…

Requirements

Mac OSX, Windows or Linux System

Description

Welcome to your start toward becoming a Python developer. This course is a coding bootcamp of how to go from zero programming experience to a professional developer. This course aims to help you learn subjects that are valuable to becoming a professional developer with Python.
Each subsequent section will be covering all the necessary basics to get us jump
started. Here is a brief overview of what you’ll learn:

· Installing Python and Anaconda

· Writing your first Python program

· Understanding data types

· How to use variables

· Seeing what you can do with strings

· How to manipulate a string

· Understanding user input and conditional

· How to use “if” statements to make decisions

· How to use “elif” statements to make multiple decisions

· How to use “else” statements to make decisions no matter what

Who this course is for

Beginning Python Programmers
System Administrators
Automation Technitians
Beginning DevOps

Course content

Intro to Python
- Getting Installed
- Adding Comments. Data Types
- Data Types cont.
- Adding Variables
- Variables cont.
- Self Check
- Working with Strings
- Strings cont.
- Strings cont.
- Working with User Input. Type Converting
- Type Converting cont.
- IF Statement and Comparison Operators
- Logical Operators
- ELIF Statement
- ESLE Statement
Intro to Python Recap and Hands-On Tasks
- Strings
- Int, Variables and Data Types
- Type() Function
- Addition: Numbers and Strings
- Addition: Variables
- Errors are Your Friend. Handling Errors.
- User Input and Input Prompts
- Comma separated string printing and printing numbers with strings using comma
- Quotes in Quotes and Boolean Strings Tests
- String Format Methods
- Input. String Formating
- Boolean ‘in’ keyword
Lists and Loops
- Intro to Lists
- For Loops
- While Loops
- Working with Lists
Funtions, Lists and Loops Recap and Hands-On Tasks
- Create the simpliest function
- Function Parameters & Function Return
- Function Multi Parameters & Obeject Sequence
- Conditionals: Boolean
- Conditionals: String Compare
- Basic Math. Nested Conditionals
- Escape sequences and ‘while’ loops
- Incrementing variables. while loop with Boolean comparisons
- String indexing
- String slicing
- Strings iteration
- Strings: methods
- Lists. Part 1
- Lists. Overwriting. Inserting
- Lists. Part 2
Intro to Python Scripting
- Getting Installed
- OS module: files, paths, etc
- Handling Absolute and Relative Paths. Checking Path Validity
- Working with Files: Read, Write, Append Methods
- Working with Files: shutil
- Types and Variables