Get started with Python, the popular and highly-readable object-oriented language.
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- Learning Python
- What you should know
- Exercise files
- Installing Python on Windows
- Installing Python on Mac
- Choosing an editor or IDE
- How to run the Python examples
- Building Hello World
- Variables and expressions
- Python functions
- Conditional structures
- Loops
- Classes
- Importing and using modules
- Using exceptions
- Challenge: Palindromes
- Solution: Palindromes
- Reading and writing files
- Working with OS path utilities
- Using filesystem shell methods
- Challenge: Files
- Solution: Files
- The date, time, and datetime classes
- Formatting time output
- Using timedelta objects
- Working with calendars
- Challenge: Dates and times
- Solution: Dates and times
- Fetching Internet data
- Working with JSON data
- Parsing and processing HTML
- Manipulating XML
- Where to go next
Taught by
Joe Marini
