Learning Python

Get started with Python, the popular and highly-readable object-oriented language.

Introduction

• Learning Python
• What you should know
• Exercise files

1. Getting Started

• Installing Python on Windows
• Installing Python on Mac
• Choosing an editor or IDE
• How to run the Python examples

2. Python Basics

• Building Hello World
• Variables and expressions
• Python functions
• Conditional structures
• Loops
• Classes
• Importing and using modules
• Using exceptions
• Challenge: Palindromes
• Solution: Palindromes

3. Working with Files

• Reading and writing files
• Working with OS path utilities
• Using filesystem shell methods
• Challenge: Files
• Solution: Files

4. Using Dates and Times

• The date, time, and datetime classes
• Formatting time output
• Using timedelta objects
• Working with calendars
• Challenge: Dates and times
• Solution: Dates and times

5. Internet Data Formats

• Fetching Internet data
• Working with JSON data
• Parsing and processing HTML
• Manipulating XML

Conclusion

• Where to go next