Video description
Provides an easy to follow introduction to both computer programming and the Python language.
Shawn Bolan
Don’t know anything about programming? No problem! This video course is designed for people who have never written a line of computer code. Using Python, a language designed for teaching and learning how to program, you’ll learn key skills that every coder needs. First, your instructor Ana Bell guides you through installing Python onto your computer. Then, you’ll work through a few super-easy (and fun!) examples that teach you about how Python looks and works.
After you get started, you’ll learn how to build programs that can automatically repeat actions and make decisions based on the conditions YOU set. You’ll get experience with the process of program writing, and learn to combine different pieces of code so that they can work together. Finishing everything off, you’ll learn ways to make your code more readable and easier to maintain in the future.
This video course works perfectly alongside Ana’s book Get Programming: Learn to code with Python, each building on the other to give you a complete tour of this great language!
Programming now plays a role in almost every job. It’s time to add it to your resume! Python is great for beginners, and it’s also a language that grows with you. You can use Python for everything from web development to data science. This video course will get you started the easy way!
Inside:
- Programming skills you can use in any language
- Variables, expressions, and statements
- Getting a program to repeat tasks and make decisions
- Essential best practices for clean and easy to maintain code
- How to write programs that can interact with a mouse, keyboard, and more!
No experience with programming is needed, this video course is for anyone!
Ana Bell is an MIT lecturer and scientist who teaches the popular course, Introduction to Computer Science and Programming Using Python. She is also the author of Manning’s bestselling Get Programming: Learn to code with Python.
This is a good introductory course to the basics of programming utilizing the Python language.
Joe Houghes
If you have ever wanted to learn Python, through a video course, then this is a great course to go with.
Mike F. Cuddy
Table of Contents
- LEARNING HOW TO PROGRAM
Why learn to program?
00:07:33
Basic programming principles
00:07:41
- VARIABLES, TYPES, EXPRESSIONS, AND STATEMENTS
Introducing Python
00:08:39
Giving names to things
00:09:13
Object types
00:09:55
Exercise: Convert to hours and minutes
00:07:05
- STRINGS, TUPLES, AND INTERACTING WITH THE USER
String objects
00:10:18
Advanced string operations
00:09:03
Simple error messages
00:06:08
Tuple objects
00:08:20
Interacting with the user
00:10:52
Exercise: Name mashup
00:11:00
- MAKING DECISIONS IN YOUR PROGRAMS
Introducing decisions in programs
00:10:33
Making more decisions
00:10:52
Exercise: Choose your own adventure
00:10:23
- REPEATING TASKS
Repeating tasks with loops
00:07:18
Customizing loops
00:09:31
Loops with conditions
00:14:52
Exercise: Scrabble, art edition
00:13:40
- ORGANIZING YOUR CODE INTO REUSABLE BLOCKS
Organizing your code into reusable blocks
00:09:35
Achieving modularity and abstraction using functions
00:14:08
Advanced operations with functions
00:14:04
Exercise: Analyze your friends
00:13:20
- WORKING WITH MUTABLE DATA TYPES
Mutable and immutable objects
00:05:50
Working with lists
00:08:03
Advanced operations with lists
00:10:15
Dictionaries as maps between objects
00:13:44
Aliasing and copying lists and dictionaries
00:13:11
Exercise: Document similarity
00:14:01
- MAKING YOUR OWN OBJECT TYPES USING OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING
Making your own object types
00:06:26
Creating a class for an object type
00:10:23
Working with your own object types
00:12:48
Customizing classes
00:10:28
Exercise: Card game
00:14:13
- USING LIBRARIES TO ENHANCE YOUR PROGRAMS
Useful libraries
00:11:58
Testing and debugging your programs
00:10:42
A library for graphical user interfaces
00:10:41
Exercise: Game of tag
00:13:30