An introduction to Python for absolute beginners

An introduction to Python for absolute beginners

Bob Dowling University Computing Service scientific-computing@ucs.cam.ac.uk



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Welcome to the Computing Service's course "Introduction to Python".

This course is designed for people with absolutely no experience of programming. If you have any experience in programming other languages you are going to find this course extremely boring and you would be better off attending our course "Python for Programmers" where we teach you how to convert what you know from other programming languages to Python.

This course is based around Python version 3. Python has recently undergone a change from Python 2 to Python 3 and there are some incompatibilities between the two versions. The older versions of this course were based around Python 2 but this course is built on Python 3.

Python is named after Monty Python and its famous flying circus, not the snake. It is a trademark of the Python Software Foundation.

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Course outline 1

Who uses Python & what for What sort of language it is How to launch Python Python scripts Text Names for values Reading in user data Numbers Conversions Comparisons Truth & Falsehood

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Assignment Names Our first "real" program Loops if... else... Indentation Comments

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Lists Indices Lengths Changing items Extending lists Methods Creating lists Testing lists Removing from lists for... loop Iterables Slices

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Files Reading & writing Writing our own functions Tuples Modules System modules External modules Dictionaries Formatted text

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