Introduction to Python and Programming

6 Lessons

The Shell and Python

11 Lessons

Basic Data Structures

14 Lessons

Control Structures: Conditional Statements

4 Lessons

Loops

8 Lessons

Project Assignment: Mini Calculator

2 Lessons

Functions

11 Lessons

Error Handling and Debugging

5 Lessons

Project Assignment: Text-Based Adventure Games

2 Lessons

Understanding computers and programming

Introduction to python

Installing python

Windows

Mac

Text editors and files

Overview of the terminal

Understanding the shell

Navigation

Absolute and relative paths

File management

Downloading

Viewing and editing files

Interactive python shell

The print function

Comments

Running python scripts

Introduction to data structures and types

Numeric data types

Boolean values

Strings

Variables

Variables vs. literals

Mutable vs. immutable types

Lists

Tuples

Concatenation: combining data structures

Indexing

Slicing: extracting subsets

Length

Formatted string literals

Introduction to conditional statements

If, else, and elif

Comparison and boolean logic

Modulo operator

Introduction to looping constructs

For loops

The range function

The enumerate function

While loops

Infinite loops

The break statement

Compound statements in the interpreter

Mini calculator overview

Hint + solution

Introduction: understanding functions

Defining and calling a function

Indentation and syntax in functions

Return statements

Using functions in loops

Parameters and arguments

Type conversion functions

The input function

Dictionary

Modules and importing

The os module

Overview of debugging

Common errors

Reading and understanding errors

Code style and conventions

Try and except

Adventure game overview

Solution