Python for Absolute Beginners: Learn Python in a Week!

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Course Overview

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Course Resources & Important Notes for New Students

Lecture 3: Why Learn Python?

Lecture 4: Five (5) Beginner Tips for Learning Python Programming

Chapter 2: Setting Up Python

Lecture 1: Download & Install Python 3 (Windows)

Lecture 2: Download & Install Python 3 (masOS & Ubuntu Linux)

Lecture 3: Using the Python Shell

Lecture 4: REPLIT: A Powerful Online IDE (Python Editor)

Chapter 3: Your First Python Program

Lecture 1: Hello World! – Writing our First Program

Lecture 2: CHALLENGE: Interact with IDLE (Python Shell)

Lecture 3: Variables

Lecture 4: Adding Comments

Lecture 5: How to Find Help

Chapter 4: Strings and String Methods

Lecture 1: What is a String?

Lecture 2: String Indexing

Lecture 3: String Slicing

Lecture 4: String Concatenation

Lecture 5: Exercise: String Concatenation

Lecture 6: Manipulate Strings with Methods

Lecture 7: String Formatting

Lecture 8: F-Strings: An Improved String Formatting Syntax

Lecture 9: Print() Formatting Methods

Lecture 10: Interact With User Input()

Lecture 11: PROJECT: Create a Receipt Printing Program

Lecture 12: Exercise : Strings

Chapter 5: Numbers and Math

Lecture 1: Arithmetic & Comparison Operators

Lecture 2: Logical (Boolean) & Chained Comparison Operators

Lecture 3: Exercise 2: Operators & Variables

Lecture 4: Integers

Lecture 5: Floating Point Numbers & Complex Numbers

Lecture 6: Converting Strings to Numbers

Lecture 7: Reading Numbers with the Input Function

Lecture 8: CHALLENGE: The Remainder Operator

Lecture 9: CHALLENGE: Calculating a Percentage

Lecture 10: CHALLENGE: Calculating an Average

Lecture 11: CHALLENGE: Converting a Math Formula to a Programming Statement

Chapter 6: Lists – Tuples – Dictionaries – Sets

Lecture 1: What is a List?

Lecture 2: Working with Lists

Lecture 3: Making Numerical Lists

Lecture 4: Printing Lists

Lecture 5: Exercise: Lists

Lecture 6: Tuples

Lecture 7: Tuple Assignment, Packing, and Unpacking

Lecture 8: Working with Dictionaries

Lecture 9: Sets

Lecture 10: Exercise 7: Dictionaries

Lecture 11: Summary

Chapter 7: Statements and Loops

Lecture 1: If Statements

Lecture 2: EXAMPLES of Using the if Statement in an Application

Lecture 3: Break & Continue

Lecture 4: for Loops

Lecture 5: EXAMPLES of Using the for Statement

Lecture 6: while Loops

Lecture 7: Exercise 4: for Loops

Lecture 8: Exercise 5: if statement

Lecture 9: PROJECT: Guessing Game

Lecture 10: Summary

Chapter 8: Advanced Methods of Lists & Dictionaries

Lecture 1: Using if Statements with Lists

Lecture 2: Using for Loops with Lists

Lecture 3: Using a while Loop with Lists and Dictionaries

Lecture 4: Creating Stacks Using Lists

Lecture 5: Searching and Sorting Lists

Lecture 6: Looping Through a Dictionary

Lecture 7: Replacing the switch statement with a dictionary

Lecture 8: Working with the Counter Object

Chapter 9: Functions

Lecture 1: What are Functions?

Lecture 2: Built-In Functions

Lecture 3: List of Python Built-In Functions

Lecture 4: Defining your Own Function

Lecture 5: More Built-In Functions

Lecture 6: Exercise 6: Adding Evens

Lecture 7: Global and Local Scopes

Lecture 8: Summary

Lecture 9: Exercise 7: Functions

Lecture 10: PROJECT: Improved Guessing Game (version 2) – PART 1

Lecture 11: PROJECT: Improved Guessing Game (version 2) – PART 2

Lecture 12: PROJECT: Improved Guessing Game (version 2) – PART 3