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Programming Foundations: Fundamentals

via LinkedIn Learning

Overview

Prepare to learn the fundamental concepts, practices, and terminology of programming in this introductory course.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • The fundamentals of programming
  • Following along with the course
1. Programming Basics
  • What is programming?
  • What is a programming language?
  • Writing source code
  • Running your code
  • Using an IDE
2. Programming Syntax
  • Why Python?
  • Installing Python on a Mac
  • Installing Python on Windows
  • Running Python on the command line on Mac
  • Running Python on the command line on Windows
  • Installing Visual Studio Code on a Mac
  • Installing Visual Studio Code on Windows
  • Running Python in an IDE
  • Basic statements and expressions
  • Troubleshooting issues
3. Variables and Data Types
  • Introduction to variables and data types
  • Variables across languages
  • Working with numbers
  • Working with strings
  • Properly using whitespace
  • Working with comments
  • Challenge: What's the output?
  • Solution: What's the output?
4. Conditional Code
  • Making decisions in code
  • Exploring conditional code
  • Working with simple conditions
  • Conditionals across languages
  • Challenge: Guessing game
  • Solution: Guessing game
5. Modular Code
  • Introduction to functions
  • Creating and calling functions
  • Setting parameters and arguments
  • Returning values from functions
  • Functions across languages
  • Challenge: Favorite cities
  • Solution: Favorite cities
Conclusion
  • Exploring languages
  • Next steps

Taught by

Annyce Davis

Reviews

4.7 rating, based on 3 Class Central reviews

4.8 rating at LinkedIn Learning based on 28172 ratings

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  • Do enroll yourself in this course if you need to learn the foundations of python programming. I really enjoyed it and learned the basic concepts of python.
  • Overall Good Course Covering Programming Fundamental Topic From Scratch, Good for Beginners. This Course Also Teaches in a Practical Way. This Course is Too Basic and Too Outdated.
  • Pramod B
    This course is really awesome the way she explains everything is good, Beginners can easily catch what she is explaining about. It is in simple language not complex so that we can grab everything easily.
    thank you for this course.

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