python-get-started

A collection of basic Python examples designed to get a student up and running on the language.

More tutorials and documentation:

• The official Python docs: https://www.python.org/doc/
• LearnPython.org: http://www.learnpython.org/

After you've mastered these examples, also check out:

• More Python snippets I find handy: https://github.com/anthonydb/python-snippets
• Catch the Cat: A text-based game (introduces objects and advanced coding): https://github.com/anthonydb/catch-the-cat
• Tom Meagher's repo for the 2014 NICAR Python mini-bootcamp: https://github.com/tommeagher/pycar14

Outline

1-variables-data-structures.py

• Integers
• Decimals
• Strings
• Lists
• Tuples
• Dictionaries

2-string-methods.py

• Slicing
• Mods

3-control-structures.py

• if ... then ... else
• while
• for

4-file-io.py

• Opening, reading from and writing to files
• Bonus: Word frequency counter

5-web-scraping.py

• Using Requests and BeautifulSoup to fetch and parse a web page

6-regular-expressions.py

• Parsing text with regular expessions

6.1-regular-expressions-web-scrape.py

• Applying regular expressions to scraping nuclear reactor data

7-functions.py

• Creating functions

8-csvkit.txt

• Using the csvkit Python library to handle CSV files