Easy Python Programming for Absolute Beginners

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Welcome to the Course!

Lecture 2: What is computing?

Lecture 3: Why Python?

Lecture 4: Course Overview

Chapter 2: Using Google Colaboratory

Lecture 1: Registering for a Google Account

Lecture 2: What is Google Colab?

Lecture 3: Registering for Google Colab

Lecture 4: To Follow along with the lectures, use Notebooks located under the Resources tab

Lecture 5: Google Colab Notebook Demo and First Code

Lecture 6: What to do when you got an error?

Chapter 3: Assignments, Variables, Math Operators, and Comments

Lecture 1: Section Introduction

Lecture 2: Assigning variables

Lecture 3: Demo: Variable Assignments

Lecture 4: Best Practices: Naming Variables

Lecture 5: Math Operators: Introduction

Lecture 6: Demo: Math Operators

Lecture 7: In-place Addition and Subtraction

Lecture 8: Math Operators: Conclusion

Lecture 9: Order of Operations: Introductions

Lecture 10: Demo: Order of Operations

Lecture 11: Python Comments: Introduction

Lecture 12: Demo: Python Comments

Lecture 13: Why use comments?

Chapter 4: Built-in Functions and Import Statements

Lecture 1: Section Introduction

Lecture 2: Built-in Functions: Introduction

Lecture 3: Demo: Built-in Functions

Lecture 4: Import Statements: Introduction

Lecture 5: Demo: Import Statements

Chapter 5: Data Types

Lecture 1: Section Introduction

Lecture 2: Strings, Integers, and Floats

Lecture 3: Booleans and Typecasting

Lecture 4: Tuples

Lecture 5: Lists and Sets

Lecture 6: Dictionary

Lecture 7: None and File-like

Lecture 8: Demo: Quick Guess: 2-point Challenge Game

Chapter 6: F-Strings

Lecture 1: Section Overview

Lecture 2: F -Strings

Chapter 7: Methods

Lecture 1: Section Overview

Lecture 2: Introducing Methods

Lecture 3: Modifying Data in Lists and Dictionaries

Lecture 4: Demo: Capital Conundrum

Lecture 5: Demo: The Magic Bag List Methods

Chapter 8: Comparisons

Lecture 1: Section Overview

Lecture 2: Comparison Operators

Lecture 3: Examples of Comparison Operators in Action

Lecture 4: Object Identity in Python

Chapter 9: Control Flow

Lecture 1: Section Overview

Lecture 2: If Statements

Lecture 3: If/Else-If Statements

Lecture 4: If/Else-If /Else Statements

Lecture 5: While Loops

Lecture 6: Game Loop Explanation

Lecture 7: For Loops

Lecture 8: Range and Enumerate

Lecture 9: Pass, Break, and Continue

Lecture 10: Logic and/or

Lecture 11: List Comprehensions

Lecture 12: Dict Comprehensions

Lecture 13: Demo: Aethoria Trading Card Duel

Chapter 10: Writing Functions

Lecture 1: Section Overview

Lecture 2: Simple Functions

Lecture 3: Returning Values from Functions

Lecture 4: Default Return Value

Lecture 5: Positional and Keyword Arguments

Lecture 6: Scope

Lecture 7: Demo: Cirque du Hilarity – Introduction

Lecture 8: Demo: Cirque du Hilarity – Game Plan