The Python for Absolute Beginners Bootcamp

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Welcome to the Course!

Lecture 2: Course Materials and Where to Find Me!

Chapter 2: Setting up the Course Environment

Lecture 1: Downloading and Installing the Anaconda Distribution

Lecture 2: Creating an Environment from Scratch and Installing Jupyter Notebooks

Lecture 3: Navigating the Jupyter Notebook Folder Structure

Lecture 4: Loading the Python for Absolute Beginners Environment using a Yaml File

Lecture 5: [Alternative] – Setting up and Using Google Colab

Chapter 3: Python as a Calculator and Data Types

Lecture 1: Let's start!

Lecture 2: A Jupyter Notebook Introduction

Lecture 3: Basic Math with Python

Lecture 4: Using Mathematical Functions

Lecture 5: Data Types Introduction – Integers

Lecture 6: Data Types Introduction – Using External Libraries

Lecture 7: Data Types Introduction – Floats

Lecture 8: Data Types Introduction – Strings

Lecture 9: Data Types Introduction – Bool

Lecture 10: Exercises – Udemy Environment Walkthrough

Lecture 11: Code Along – Python as a Calculator and Data Types Exercises

Chapter 4: Conversions, Variables and Comparisons

Lecture 1: Conversions – Converting to Int and/or Float

Lecture 2: Conversions – Converting to Str and Bool

Lecture 3: Variables – Introduction to Variables

Lecture 4: Variables – Calculations with Variables and Other Details

Lecture 5: Comparison Operators

Lecture 6: Logical Operators – AND / OR / NOT

Lecture 7: Logical Operators – Order of Operations

Lecture 8: Identity Operators

Lecture 9: Udemy Environment Exercises Walkthrough Solution

Lecture 10: Exercises on Your Environment – Walkthrough

Lecture 11: Code Along Solutions – Exercises on Your Environment

Chapter 5: Python Strings – A Deep Dive

Lecture 1: Fine Point – How Strings are Stored

Lecture 2: Indexing Strings

Lecture 3: Indexing Strings – Slicing

Lecture 4: Immutability Property

Lecture 5: Combining Strings

Lecture 6: String Iteration and First Glimpse on Indentation

Lecture 7: Testing Substrings with Identity Operators

Lecture 8: Escaping Characters

Lecture 9: Raw Strings and Multi-Line Statements

Lecture 10: Strings Functions and Methods – Part 1

Lecture 11: Strings Functions and Methods – Part 2

Lecture 12: Formatting Strings – Using %s

Lecture 13: Formatting Strings – .format method and f-strings

Lecture 14: Formatting Strings – Number Formatting

Lecture 15: Udemy Environment Exercises Walkthrough Solution

Lecture 16: Code Along Solutions – Exercises on Your Environment

Chapter 6: Python Integers and Floats

Lecture 1: Built-In Functions | Keyword Arguments

Lecture 2: Intro to Libraries/Packages | Ceil Function

Lecture 3: Exploring some Functions of the Math Library

Lecture 4: Udemy Environment Exercises Walkthrough Solution

Lecture 5: Code Along Solutions – Exercises on Your Environment

Chapter 7: Python Lists

Lecture 1: Creating Python Lists

Lecture 2: Indexing Lists

Lecture 3: Lists Mutability and Changing Elements

Lecture 4: Adding Elements to Lists

Lecture 5: Concatenating Lists

Lecture 6: Deleting Elements from Lists

Lecture 7: Lists Functions and Methods

Lecture 8: Lists' Copy Method

Lecture 9: Udemy Environment Exercises Walkthrough Solution

Lecture 10: Code Along Solutions – Exercises on Your Environment

Chapter 8: Python Dictionaries

Lecture 1: Creating Python Dictionaries

Lecture 2: Indexing Dictionaries

Lecture 3: Adding Elements to Dictionaries

Lecture 4: Changing and Updating Elements from Dictionaries

Lecture 5: Deleting elements from Dictionaries

Lecture 6: Udemy Environment Exercises Walkthrough Solution

Lecture 7: Code Along Solutions – Exercises on Your Environment

Chapter 9: Sets and Tuples

Lecture 1: Sets Introduction

Lecture 2: Adding Elements, Removing Elements or Combining Sets

Lecture 3: Tuples Introduction

Lecture 4: Combining Tuples and Tuple Functions

Lecture 5: Udemy Environment Exercises Walkthrough Solution

Lecture 6: Code Along Solutions – Exercises on Your Environment

Chapter 10: Course Break

Lecture 1: Python Check-In – Learning Status

Chapter 11: Python Conditionals and Loops

Lecture 1: If Else Statements