Python Foundations

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Materials We Provide

You'll work through these in order.

Topic	Description	Link
1	Python Intro 1	here
2	Python Intro 2	here
3	Python Intro 3	here

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Learning Objectives

By the end of this lesson, students will be able to:

Part 1: Git and GitHub

• Fork and clone a repo

Part 2: Jupyter Notebook

• Create a Markdown cell
• Create and run a code cell
• Open and save files
• Restart and shutdown kernels

Part 3: Python Foundations

• Define integers, strings, tuples, lists, and dictionaries.
• Demonstrate arithmetic operations and string operations.
• Demonstrate variable assignment.
• Implement for loops to iterate through data structures.
• Apply if, else conditional statements.
• Create functions to perform repetitive actions.

Part 4: Intermediate Python

• Use enumerate to get an index for each list item
• Use zip to combine two lists into a dictionary.
• Use list comprehensions to create lists.
• Use try-except blocks to catch exceptions.
• Understand what a class is.
• Understand what an object is.
• Understand what an attribute is.
• Understand what a method is.

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Student Requirements

Before this lesson(s), students should already be able to:

• Navigate the command line

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Lesson Outline

Python Foundations

• Data Types
• Python Variables
• Operators
• Integers and Floats
• Strings
• Lists
• Tuples
• Dictionaries
• Importing Packages and Documentation
• If... Else Statements
• Iterating with For Loops
• Functions

Optional

• List Comprehensions
• Classes
• Enumerate
• Zip
• Try/Except
• Lambda Functions

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Additional Resources

Browser-based coding lessons:

• Codecademy
• Dataquest
• Datacamp

Intermediate/Advanced Python Tutorials

• Real Python

For more information on these topics, check out the following optional resources:

Command Line

• More advanced commands

Git

• Learn Git Branching
• Git workflows

Jupyter

• Nice intro docs
• Common keyboard shortcuts