Python for Beginners

✓ How to use the Python Shell
✓ How to use interactive mode in Python
✓ How to develop and run programs in the IDLE editor
✓ How to run Python scripts directly from the command line
✓ How to use the print() function
✓ How to use separators and new line characters to modify command line output
✓ Assign variables of different types
✓ Understand integer, floating point, complex and string variables
✓ Be able to extract substrings
✓ Easily concatenate strings
✓ Create Lists and Tuples
✓ Create key value pairs and store them in dictionaries
✓ Understand mathematical operators used in Python
✓ Apply the order of operations to mathematical operations
✓ Utilize comparison operators to determine logical outcomes
✓ Use logical operators to join comparisons
✓ Write conditional statements to correctly branch code
✓ Use If, else and else if statements to apply branching
✓ Understand how and when to used nested if statements
✓ Use the shortcut Ternary operator
✓ Be able to use looping structures effectively
✓ Create While loops
✓ Be able to use For loops to loop through an objects properties
✓ Be able to construct nested loops and understand their utility.
✓ Cast variables from one type to another using built-in Python functions
✓ Use the Mathematical functions within Python to evaluate expressions
✓ Randomize numbers and selections with the Randomization tools
✓ Use Python String functions such as find(), join() and split()
✓ Create immutable tuples
✓ Access values within tuples
✓ Use tuple functions to manipulate tuple data
✓ Declare a dictionary and populate it with key/value pairs
✓ Access and edit values within dictionaries
✓ Extract date and time information from the time tuple
✓ Use the calendar object to work with calendar related information
✓ Create custom functions
✓ Send arguments to functions using order or keyword
✓ Create default function arguments
✓ Read and obtain keyboard input
✓ Read from a text file and process the data in Python
✓ Write to a text file from Python
✓ Append to a text file
✓ Handle exceptions with try/except/else in Python
✓ Use Python within the cgi-bin or a web server
✓ Process form data from Python