This repository contains the work I did as I learned the Python programming language. Python was the first language I learned, starting in 2010. I worked with two beginning programming books based around Python at various times between 2010 and 2015. Hello World! by Sande discusses language structures, basic algorithms, graphical interfaces, object oriented programming, and more. This is the book from which I learned programming for the first time, and I recommend it to any other interested kids.
Another book, Python for Kids by Briggs, offers slightly different perspective and priorities in its curriculum, but covers the same general range of topics. It helped to solidify my knowledge of Python. I wrote a lot of programs out of interest alone as well as the exercises from both books. Later on, I also wrote several programs to do various calculations for high school assignments.
My most recent Python exercises were solutions to problem sets from Harvard's CS50. Two problem sets require solutions in Python, as an example of a higher level language than C. Many ideas can be expressed more concisely and the standard library is absolutely immense, but as an interpreted language, these qualities come at the cost of greater execution time.
These exercises are in hello-world. Several directories within hold
exercises divided into categories; many other exercises are not
sorted. Some example programs taken down from the text are present, as
well as many end of chapter exercises. All these programs were written
years ago, mostly in Python 2.5, and I have converted them all to
Python 3. In hello-world/unconverted are the original files.
These exercises are in python-for-kids. Since this book placed a
much greater emphasis on using the read-evaluate-print loop (REPL) to
learn, there are fewer exercises. Most of these are simple graphical
programs, and there are a couple of games too.
Python is part of the curriculum for this great class, and the problem
sets are in cs50. All of the Python files in these directories are
my own work. Other resources were provided as part of the problem
sets. In cs50/pset7 is a solution that connected Python and SQL.
The other directory holds all the Python work I have done outside of
a book or a class. These programs were written at various times from
2012 to 2017, so some have had to be converted to Python 3. In
other/friend are several programs I exchanged in elementary school
with a friend of mine when he was learning Python as well.