Getting started with Python

Who this course is for

Resources for this course

How computers think

Installing Python, Pip, and Jupyter Notebooks

The Zen of Python

Writing a program

Jupyter notebooks

Using Coderpad

Variables and types

Data structures

Operators

Control flow

Functions

Classes and objects

About the challenges

Solution: Factorials

Ints and floats

Other types of numbers

Booleans

Strings

Bytes

Solution: Converting hex to decimal

Lists

Tuples and sets

Dictionaries

List comprehensions

Dictionary comprehensions

Solution: Encoding ASCII art

If and else

While

For

Solution: Finding primes faster

The anatomy of a function

Variables and scope

Functions as variables

Solution: Sum of triangles

The anatomy of a class

Static and instance methods

Inheritance

Solution: Drawing shapes

Errors and exceptions

Handling exceptions

Custom exceptions

Solution: Bad arguments

Intro to threads and processes

Multithreading

Multiprocessing

Opening, reading, and writing

CSV

JSON

Solution: Compressing ASCII art

Command-line arguments

Creating modules and packages

Wrap up

Python challenge project