Introduction to Python

1. First Acquaintance

In this section, you'll dive into the basics of Python, familiarize yourself with your workspace, tackle simple math operations, and display your results.

The Very First Steps

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Some Simple Math

More Challenging Math

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Bringing It All Together

2. Variables and Types

Here, you'll learn how to store items like numbers and text in computer memory, recalling them by name. You'll also get a taste of text manipulation in Python.

Negative Indexing and Length

String Slicing

Challenge

Concatenation

3. Conditional Statements

Here, you'll delve into the boolean data type and discover its role in creating programs that respond to specific conditions.

Boolean Data Type

Challenge: Comparison Operators

Combining Conditions

Challenge: Logical Operators

Membership Operators and Types Comparison

Simple if/else Expressions

Challenge: Grocery Store

Challenge: Odd and Even

if/elif/else Expressions

Challenge: Grocery Store Extended

Challenge: Positive, Negative or Zero

4. Other Data Types

Continuing with data types, this section will teach you how to group varied attributes within a single variable using lists, tuples, and the dictionaries.

What Is a Dictionary?

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Dictionary Methods

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5. Loops

In this part, you'll master the art of writing loops in Python – essential constructs for iterating over lists, tuples, dictionaries, and even future dataframes.

Iterating Over Indexes

Nested Loops

6. Functions

To wrap up our introductory course, you'll explore some built-in functions and then embark on creating your very own!

Built-in Functions

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Defining Your First Function

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if/else Statements in Functions

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Functions With No Return

Nested Tuples

Much like lists, tuples can also have nested elements.

Take, for instance, data about countries grouped into tuples. The indexing for nested tuples works just like it does for nested lists. That is, the first index points to an item in the main tuple, while the second index targets an item within the nested tuple.

Let's refresh our understanding of indexing with the following example.