This is Python!

About this course

The course begins with the most basic concepts and features and follows a path through intermediate features of Python. Along the way, you'll learn pitfalls that often end up as interview questions.The order of topics should allow you to build skills and grow your understanding of programming as you learn the essential tools of Python to accomplish virtually anything.You’ll learn about data and data types, containers, code structures, object orientation, and important ways to bring data into your programs.The course covers variable assignment, basic data types and operations on data, functions, conditional statements and expressions, classes and objects, string objects and ways to work with strings. It moves on to exception handling, raising exceptions, lists, dictionaries, and sets, and ways to work with those containers. It covers data input to programs from user interaction, command line options, and from reading and writing files using available file functionality.Along the way, many other important aspects of the language are covered, such as code libraries and ways to import them, variable scope, regular expressions, enumerations, inner functions and decorators, the differences between mutable and immutable variables, condition testing through the match statement.Upon completion, you'll be ready for an advanced course!

Course objectives

• build a strong foundation in Python programming
• prepare for advanced Python courses
• learn to read and write data to and from files