Introduction to Python

✨ Level	🕗 Duration	💻 Practice
Beginner	2-4 months	300+ coding exercises

Welcome to the Introduction to Python course! In this course, you will learn a lot about the language and programming in general. This course is designed for complete beginners or people who already know another programming language but want to learn Python and enhance their knowledge in this field.

Python is one of the most popular languages and is used across many disciplines to solve various tasks. It is widely used in Machine Learning, Web Development, Robotics, and many automation tasks. In the last 10 years, the language has gained huge popularity among programmers and tech companies. It is currently considered the most popular language according to many reports.

💻 Learn By Doing

In this course, you learn by doing! Each concept has several interactive challenges that you will solve to pass on to the next one. We believe that hands-on learning is the best way to get in-depth knowledge. Here you will have many challenging and at the same time interesting exercises to practice each and every concept that is covered.

You will study at your own pace. You can go hard and complete several levels in one week, or take it slow and focus on each concept for longer.

There is a forum to ask questions and get unstuck. You can ask or answer the questions of others under each challenge.

🎓 Curriculum

This course focuses on the core concepts of Python and introduces each of them in an intuitive manner. To make the process more fun and engaging, the concepts are organized into levels, and passing each level means you’ve mastered a new concept. These are the main things we will be covering here:

Input and output

print and input commands
Additional parameters for the print function

Variables and integer arithmetic

Python as a simple calculator
addition, subtraction, multiplication
division, modulus

Conditional operators

bool type (True and False)
if, else, and elif statements
Logical operators
Nested conditional statements

Types of variables

int and float types
math module - square roots, exponents, etc

Textual values (strings)

Strings and accessing each character
f-strings
Slicing

Lists

Lists - list and []
Accessing elements of lists
Removing elements with del []
Nested lists and matrices

for loops

for loop syntax
range function

while loops

while loop syntax
Working with number digits

continue break and while ... else

Skip an iteration with continue
Get out of a loop with a break
while ... else and for ... else

Utility methods for strings and lists

title(), upper(), lower(), etc
istitle(), isalpha(), etc
strip(), replace(), etc
split() and join()
Sorting of lists

Nested loops

Nested for and while loops
Handling 2D lists

List comprehension

Simplifying list creation with list comprehension
Nested list comprehension
2D list comprehension

Tuples

Tuples - tuple and ()
Accessing elements of tuples
Creating a tuple from a list

Sets

Sets - set and {}
Venn’s diagram
add and remove
Set comprehension

Dictionaries

Dictionaries - dict and {}
Accessing values of dictionaries
Looping over dictionaries
Dict comprehension
Counters

Functions

def syntax
Functions with and without arguments
Functions with single and multiple return values
Functions inside functions
Lambda functions

Working with files

open-ing a file in different modes
reading, writing and appending to a file
pathlib module
Automating tasks with files

Applications and wrap-up

Random numbers
Interactive games

🚀 Welcome

Learning is 80% individual work. Completing this course will be your accomplishment and we’re here to support that journey!