Python Programming for Beginners and Kids – Anyone Can Code

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Why choose this course?

Lecture 2: About Me

Lecture 3: What You'll Learn

Lecture 4: Optimizing Your Learning Experience

Lecture 5: Downloading Python Software

Lecture 6: Setting Up Our Python Editor – Thonny

Lecture 7: Getting Familiar with Thonny

Chapter 2: Hardware and Software

Lecture 1: What is a computer?

Lecture 2: What is software?

Lecture 3: Quick Review of Hardware and Software

Chapter 3: Working with Output

Lecture 1: Introduction to Output

Lecture 2: Example 1- Output with the print() function

Lecture 3: Example 1 Continued – Adding Notes to Your Program

Lecture 4: Example 2 – More Escape Characters for Text Formatting

Lecture 5: Example 3 – Making Your Computer Speak

Lecture 6: Programming Challenge 1 – Print Your Superheroes

Lecture 7: Programming Challenge 1 – Solution

Lecture 8: Programming Challenge 2 – Upside Down Triangle

Lecture 9: Programming Challenge 2 – Solution

Lecture 10: Programming Challenge 3 – Backslash and Tabs to Make a Rectangle

Lecture 11: Programming Challenge 3 – Solution

Lecture 12: Programming Challenge 4 – A Famous Quote

Lecture 13: Programming Challenge 4 – Solution

Lecture 14: Programming Challenge 5 – Poetic Python – Reciting Poetry

Lecture 15: Programming Challenge 5 – Solution

Chapter 4: Working with Variables and Keyboard Input

Lecture 1: Introducing Variables

Lecture 2: Example 4 – Creating Variables and Using the Debugger

Lecture 3: Example 5 – Getting Keyboard Input

Lecture 4: Example 5 Continued – Formatting Output with Variables

Lecture 5: Example 6 – Replacing words in a sentence with user input

Lecture 6: Example 7 – Making the Computer Speak our Sentence Built from User Input

Lecture 7: Programming Challenge 6 – Creating a Simple Word Game

Lecture 8: Programming Challenge 6 – Solution

Chapter 5: Doing Math with Python

Lecture 1: Introduction to Expressions and Operators

Lecture 2: Hands On Practice with Math Expressions

Lecture 3: The Modulus Operator

Lecture 4: Using Operators with Strings

Lecture 5: Operator Precedence Cheat Sheet

Lecture 6: Example 8 – Computing the Area of a Rectangle

Lecture 7: Example 9 – Computing the Area of a Triangle from User Input

Lecture 8: Programming Challege 7 – Evaluating Math Expressions

Lecture 9: Programming Challenge 7 – Solution

Lecture 10: Programming Challenge 8 – Calculating Your Age in Dog Years

Lecture 11: Programming Challenge 8 Solution

Chapter 6: Lists and Tuples

Lecture 1: Introduction – What is a List?

Lecture 2: Example 10 – Creating a List Variable

Lecture 3: Example 11 – Accessing Individual Items in a List

Lecture 4: Changing Individual Values in a List

Lecture 5: Example 12 – Getting the Number of Items in a List

Lecture 6: Example 13 – Adding Items to a List

Lecture 7: Example 14 – Combining Lists to Make a New List

Lecture 8: Example 15 – Multiplying a List

Lecture 9: Example 16 – Remove an Item from a List using a Value

Lecture 10: Example 17 – Remove an Item from a List by Position

Lecture 11: Example 18 – Counting How Many Times an Item Appears in A List

Lecture 12: What is a Tuple?

Lecture 13: Example 19 – Hands On with Tuples

Lecture 14: Programming Challenge 9 – Heroes and Villains List Challenge

Lecture 15: Programming Challenge 9 – Solution

Lecture 16: Programming Challenge 10 – Heroes and Villains Tuples

Lecture 17: Programming Challenge 10 – Solution

Chapter 7: Introduction to Turtle Graphics

Lecture 1: Introducing Turtle Graphics – Pixels and Coordinates

Lecture 2: Example 20 – Drawing a Red Square with Goto

Lecture 3: Setting Your Turtle Speed

Lecture 4: Programming Challenge 11 – Draw a Green Rectangle

Lecture 5: Programming Challenge 11 – Solution

Lecture 6: Example 21 – Forward, Backward, Left, and Right Functions

Lecture 7: Programming Challenge 12 – Using Forward, Backward, Left, and Right

Lecture 8: Programming Challenge 12 – Solution

Lecture 9: Example 22 – Drawing Circles

Lecture 10: Example 23 – Filling Shapes with Color

Lecture 11: Example 24 – Drawing Polygons and Irregular Shapes

Lecture 12: Example 25 – Erasing Turtle Drawings and Setting the Window Background Color

Lecture 13: Programming Challenge 13 – Draw Your Own Emoji

Lecture 14: Programming Challenge 13 Solution – Drawing an Emoji

Lecture 15: Programming Challenge 14 – Drawing Challenge

Lecture 16: Programming Challenge 14 – Solution

Lecture 17: Example 26 – Drawing Text

Lecture 18: Programming Challenge 15 – Draw Your Name

Lecture 19: Programming Challenge 15 – Solution

Lecture 20: Example 27 – A Nicer Way to Get Input

Lecture 21: Programming Challenge 16 – Practice with numinput() and textinput()

Lecture 22: Programming Challenge 16 – Solution

Lecture 23: Turtle Graphics Documentation

Chapter 8: Writing Programs that Make Decisions

Lecture 1: Introduction – Booleans

Lecture 2: Hands On with Comparison Operators

Lecture 3: Example 28: Making decisions with the if statement

Lecture 4: Example 28-2: Age Program in Turtle Graphics

Lecture 5: Hands On – Writing expressions with AND and OR

Lecture 6: Example 29 – Display Different Messages for Different Age Ranges

Lecture 7: Example 30 – Park Admission Calculator