Part I - Learning the Basics¶

In Part I, we will learn the basics of the Python programming language. This section of the book should get you ready to use all the building blocks of Python so that you will be ready to tackle the following sections confidently.

Let’s go over what we’ll be covering:

IDLE

Strings

Lists, Dictionaries and Tuples

Conditional statements

Loops

Comprehensions

Exception Handling

File I/O

Importing modules and packages

Functions

Classes

The first chapter in this section will familiarize you with Python’s built-in development environment that is known as IDLE. The next couple of chapters will go over some of Python’s types, such as strings, lists, and dictionaries. After that we’ll look at conditional statements in Python and looping using Python’s for and while loops.

In the second half of this section, we will go into comprehensions, such as list and dictionary comprehensions. Then we’ll look at Python’s exception handling capabilities and how Python’s file operations work. Next up is learning how to import pre-made modules and packages. The last two chapters cover Python functions and classes.

Let’s get started!