Make models & graphs with Python, Blender and Matplotlib

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction to Python

Lecture 1: What is Python?

Chapter 2: Basic of Python Programming

Lecture 1: Variables

Lecture 2: Functions

Lecture 3: If Statements

Lecture 4: UPDATE! More Examples Through Code

Chapter 3: Introduction to Python Lists

Lecture 1: Lists

Chapter 4: Introduction to Python Loops

Lecture 1: *Examples* Using For Loops

Lecture 2: While Loops

Lecture 3: Breaking and Continuing In Loops

Lecture 4: Making Shapes with Loops

Lecture 5: Nest Loops, Printing & Tic Tac Toe

Chapter 5: Introduction to Sets and Dictionaries

Lecture 1: Understanding Sets and Dictionaries

Lecture 2: *Example* Inventory List

Chapter 6: Python Input and Output

Lecture 1: How to Implement Input and Output

Lecture 2: Integrating File Input and Output

Lecture 3: *Example* Tic Tac Toe Game Part 1

Lecture 4: *Example* Tic Tac Toe Game Part 2

Lecture 5: *Example* Writing Participant Data To File

Lecture 6: *Example* Reading Participant Data From File

Lecture 7: Doing Simple Statistics With Participant Data From File

Chapter 7: Introduction to Python Classes

Lecture 1: A First Look at Classes

Lecture 2: Inheritance and Classes

Lecture 3: *Classes Example* Using Pets

Lecture 4: *Classes Example* Using Pets – Dogs

Lecture 5: *Classes Example* Using Pets – Cats

Lecture 6: *Classes Example* Using Pets – Adding Humans

Lecture 7: UPDATE! More Examples Through Code

Chapter 8: Importing and 3 Libraries

Lecture 1: Introduction to Importing and the Random Library

Lecture 2: Another Way Of Importing and Using Lists with Random

Lecture 3: Using The Time Library

Lecture 4: Introduction to the Math Library

Lecture 5: *Example* Creating a User Guessing Game with Random

Lecture 6: Making the Computer Guess a Random Number

Chapter 9: *Project* Python Blackjack Game

Lecture 1: *Project* Creating and Shuffling a Deck

Lecture 2: *Project* Creating the Player Class

Lecture 3: *Project* Expanding the Player Class

Lecture 4: *Project* Implementing a Bet and Win

Lecture 5: *Project* Implementing Player Moves

Lecture 6: *Project* Running the Game

Chapter 10: Python Error Handling

Lecture 1: How to Handle Errors

Chapter 11: Make 2D & 3D Graphs with Matplotlib

Lecture 1: Installing Matplotlib

Lecture 2: Introduction to Matplotlib

Chapter 12: Matplotlib Basics

Lecture 1: Introduction, Setup, and Installation

Lecture 2: Creating our First Scatter Plot

Lecture 3: Line Plots

Chapter 13: Graph Customization

Lecture 1: Labels, Title, and a Legend

Lecture 2: Changing the Axis Ticks

Lecture 3: Adding Text into our Graph

Lecture 4: Annotating our Graph

Lecture 5: Changing Figure Size and Saving the Figure

Lecture 6: Changing the Axis Scales

Chapter 14: More Advanced Matplotlib Plots

Lecture 1: Creating Histograms

Lecture 2: Creating Histograms Continued

Lecture 3: Changing Histogram Types

Lecture 4: Bar Plots

Lecture 5: Stack Plots

Lecture 6: Pie Charts

Lecture 7: Box and Whisker Plots

Chapter 15: Finance Graphs

Lecture 1: Creating Figures and Subplots

Lecture 2: Getting and Parsing CSV Data for Plotting

Lecture 3: Creating a Candlestick Plot

Lecture 4: Setting Dates for our Candlestick Plot

Lecture 5: Reading Data directly from Yahoo

Lecture 6: Customizing our OHLC Graph

Chapter 16: Advanced Graph Customization

Lecture 1: Adding Grids

Lecture 2: Closer Look at Tick Labels

Lecture 3: Customizing Grid Lines

Lecture 4: Live Graphs

Lecture 5: Styles and rcParameters

Lecture 6: Sharing an X-axis between Two Plots

Lecture 7: Setting Axis Spines

Lecture 8: Creating multiple axes in our figure

Lecture 9: Creating multiple axes in our figure (continued)

Lecture 10: Plotting into the multiple axes

Lecture 11: Plotting into the multiple axes (continued)

Chapter 17: 3D Plotting

Lecture 1: Getting Started with 3D Plotting

Lecture 2: Surface plots and Colormaps

Lecture 3: Wireframes and Contour plots

Lecture 4: Stacks of histograms and text for 3D plotting

Chapter 18: Getting Started with Blender

Lecture 1: Download and Install Blender

Lecture 2: Introduction and Setting Changes

Lecture 3: Camera Controls