Intro to Programming in Python

Learning to write code was never this easy!

Tutorial Description

This is a beginner's tutorial for programming in python, targeted towards anyone looking to learn programming and python from scratch. I believe in learning with practice and thus have included several scripts and programs to individually explain basic and intermediate concepts. Moreover, a total of 8 PowerPoint Presentations are included which cover all basic programming concepts, so do refer to them when starting out.

Tutorial Outline

The tutorial outline is as follows:

Introduction

• Introduction to Programming
• Introduction to Python
• Applications and Syntax
• Learning Outcomes
• Tools and technologies
• Setup environment

Basics of Programming

• Syntax of a computer program
• Constants & variables
• Data types
• input()/print() statement
• Arithmetic operators
• Logical operators
• Conditional statements
• Data Structures (list, tuple, dictionary etc.)
• Loops (for, while)
• Functions (built-in functions)
• range() function - for loop
• Break and continue statements

Intermediates of Programming

• File manipulations
  • Input from text file
  • Using loops to read text file content
  • Writing to text file
• Using with statement - context management (to destroy file handles and call garbage collector)
• Modules - Installation & Use
• Import statement
• Math module (with basic functions)
• Dealing with Exceptions
• Try … except
• Object oriented Programming
• Basics of classes and objects

Python for Data Analysis

• Numpy
• Pandas
• Matplotlib

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