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Course Content

• Introduction
  • Why Learn Python?
  • List of the most common uses for Python
  • Python 2 and Python 3
  • Downloading and Installing Python
  • Using the Python Shell & IDE
  • Hello World! - Writing our First Program
  • Syntax and structure
  • Whitespace, Indentation and program formatting
  • Comments
  • Program Construction
  • Exercise: Introduction of Python
• Variables and Operators
  • Variables and Naming Conventions
  • Basic Operators
  • Booleans and Chained Comparison Operators
  • Exercise: Variables and Operators
• Simple Data Types
  • Strings
  • Useful String Methods
  • Working with Strings
  • Numbers: Integers & Floats
  • The Difference Between Strings and Numbers
  • Type Casting
  • Dates and Times
  • Exercise: Simple Data Types
• Accepting input from user
  • Accept input using Input()
  • Using int() to Accept Numerical Input
  • Print()
  • More Print() Formatting Methods
  • Exercise: Making program interactive
• Statements and Loops
  • If Statements
  • for Loops
  • while Loops
  • switch statement
  • Break & Continue
  • Handling Errors with Try & Except
  • Exercise: Statements and Loops
• Advanced data types - Lists and Dictionaries
  • What is a List?
  • Working with Lists
  • Printing Lists
  • Tuples
  • Working with Dictionaries
  • Dictionaries vs. Lists
  • Nesting
  • Built-in functions for lists, tuples and dictionaries
  • Exercise Lists and Dictionaries
• Functions
  • Variable Scope
  • Variable Parameters
  • Default Values
  • Positional Parameters
  • Keyword Parameters
  • Multiple Positional/Keyword Parameters
  • Introducing Lambdas
  • Exwecise: Lists and Dictionaries