A Complete Beginner’s Introduction to Python

Table of Contents

Introduction

Installing Python and VS Code

Navigating with a Terminal

Part 1

• Math
• Modulus
• Exponents
• Order of operations
• Types

Part 2

• Variables
• Strings and concatenation
• String length with len()
• Quotes
• Practice exercises

Part 3

• Comments and new lines
• Python scripts
• Booleans
• Equality

Part 4

• Flow Control - if
• Flow Control - if, else
• Flow Control - if, elif, else
• Functions

Part 5

• Using libraries
• Virtual environments with venv
• Installing packages with pip

Part 6

• Web APIs explained
• Using the Have I Been Pwned API

Part 7

• Lists
• Creating lists
• Working with lists
• Tuples

Part 8

• Loops - for, while
• Nested Loops
• range()
• break
• input()

Part 9

• Dictionaries
• Creating dictionaries
• Working with dictionaries

Part 10

• Writing our own module
• Importing and using our own module

Part 11

• Software Development Kits (SDKs)
• The Amazon Web Services SDK for Python - boto3
• Installing boto3
• Working with Amazon Translate

Now What?

• What to do after this tutorial