Python Programming for Beginners

This course is designed for beginners who wish to learn Python, a widely used general-purpose, high-level programming language. It covers the essential topics needed to start programming with Python.

Ideal for anyone aspiring to become a Python developer, data analyst, or data scientist, or for those who want to use Python for various applications, the course includes the following topics: variables and data types, operators, working with numbers, Python strings, lists, tuples, sets, dates and times, dictionaries, decision making, loops, and functions.

No prior knowledge of Python programming is required for this course. While familiarity with any programming language can be helpful, it is not necessary. Basic computing knowledge is recommended.

1: Introduction to Python

• Getting Python
• Python IDLE
• Comments in Python
• Online Python Compilers

2: Variables and Data Types

• Creating Variables
• Naming Variables
• Standard Data Types
• Type Conversion or Casting
• Python User Input
• Using f-strings

3: Operators

• What are operators in python?
• Arithmetic Operators
• Assignment operators
• Comparison Operators
• Logical operators
• Identity Operators
• Membership Operators

4: Working with Numbers

• Integers
• Floats
• Numbers and String Together
• Built-in Python Mathematical Functions
• Python Decimal Format
• Underscores in numbers
• Random Number

5: Python Strings

• Accessing characters in a string
• Changing a String
• Deleting a String
• Python String Operations
• String Membership Test
• Built-in String Methods
• Python Escape Characters
• Using the format() Method

6: Lists

• Accessing elements in a list
• Negative indexing
• List Slicing in Python
• Adding, Modifying and Removing elements
• Other Useful List Methods
• List Membership Test

7: Tuples

• Creating a Tuple
• Accessing Elements in a Tuple
• Modifying a Tuple
• Removing Elements from a Tuple
• Tuple Methods
• Tuple Membership Test

8: Sets in Python

• Creating Python Sets
• Modifying a Set
• Removing Elements from a Set
• Python Frozenset
• Python Set Operations
• Set Union
• Set Intersection
• Set Symmetric Difference
• Python Set Methods
• Set Membership Test
• Built-in Functions with Set

9: Python Dates and Times

• Getting the Current Date and Time
• Getting today’s year, month and day
• Time object to represent time
• Getting hour, minute and second
• Python datetime object
• Formatting Date and Time

10: Python Dictionary

• Accessing values in a Dictionary
• Adding new key-value pairs
• Modifying values in a key-value pair
• Removing key-value pairs
• Python Dictionary Methods
• Dictionary Membership Test
• Dictionary Built-in Functions
• Nested Dictionaries

11: Decision Making

• Python if Statement
• Indentation
• Python if…else Statement
• Python if…elif…else Statement
• Python Nested if Statements
• Short Hand if … else
• Membership Test
• Python match Statement

12: Loops in Python

• Python While Loops
• Python for Loop
• Looping Through a String
• The break Statement
• The continue Statement
• The range() Function
• Else in For Loop
• Nested Loops

13: Functions

• Creating and Calling a Function
• Arguments
• Keyword Arguments
• Default Parameter Value
• Passing a List as an Argument
• Return Values

14: A Project with Python

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