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Course level: Beginner

This 58-part tutorial will teach you Python through a mix between tutorials and interactive coding challenges.

What's inside

This course contains 60 interactive screencasts

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60 lessons5 hours 38 min

1. Course Introduction

2. Running Python on Scrimba with Brython

3. Frontend Career Path

4. Print Statement and Programflow

6. Datatypes & Typecasting

7. Variables & Datatypes - Exercise

8. Arithmetic operations

9. Strings -Basics / Slicing

10. Exercise- Strings - Basics / Slicing

11. Strings-2 Find/replace, string formatting

13. User Input - Exercise

14. Lists- Basics

15. Lists- continued

16. Lists - Exercise

17. Split and Join

18. Split and Join - Exercise

21. Sets-Exercises

23. Functions - Calling ,parameters, arguments, defaults

24. Functions - Exercise

25. Functions - Named Notation

26. Return statements

27. Comparisons and Booleans

28. Conditionals: If , Else, Elif

29. If/Elif /Else - Exercise

30. Conditionals - Exercise improve

31. While Loops

32. While Loops - Exercise

33. For Loops and nesting

34. For loops - Exercise

35. Enumerate This!

36. Sort() and Sorted()

37. Dictionaries

38. Dictionaries II

39. Dictionaries Exercise v 1.0

40. Dictionaries Exercise v 1.2, 1.5

41. Filehandling - Reading Files

42. Exceptions: Try/Except, Raise

43. Classes and Objects

44. Inheritance

46. Zip / Unzip

47. Lambda Functions part 1

48. Lambda Functions Part 2

49. Lambda Functions - Exercise

50. Comprehensions - Lists

51. Comprehensions - Dictionary

53. Timeit and performance

54. Project - Crypto machine

55. Project - Math Tutor

56. Project - Marble/Trading game

57. Course Summary

58. Bonus: Project Euler Q4 - Palindromes

59. Bonus: Project Euler Q4 - Palindromes 2

60. Congratulations on Completing Learn Python for Free! 🐍

You'll learn

Basic syntax

Strings, Variables

Arithmetic operations

Lists, Tuples and Sets

Conditionals : if , elif

Loops: While, for

Functions / Return Statements

Sorting: difference sort() / sorted()

Zip/ 'Un-zip'

Unpacking

Comments

modules

Classes / Objects

Dictionaries

Exceptions: Try /Except

Inheritance

Module: random

lambda functions

list comprehension

Prerequisites

This course is designed with beginners in mind.

Meet your teacher

The course creator

Olof Paulson

Olof Paulson is advocate for Khan Academy Swedish. He has a passion for using technology to give people access to high-quality STEM education. Olof’s Background is in finance and portfolio management, building and managing algorithmic trading models and developing enterprise trading systems for institutions.

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Why this course rocks

The course consists of 4-8 minute tutorials covering a topic, and separate exercises where the topic is covered as a hands-on coding challenge. It aims to give you a solid understanding of the basic concepts in Python programming.

As with all Scrimba courses, you can stop, test, modify or spin-off the code at any time. This makes for a more immersive experience and is one of the greatest benefits with the Scrimba platform.

BUT! It only works if you do, so use the opportunity. Don't just watch the talkthroughs, work through them, play, experiment, fail and learn! That is how you become great. You got this!

Extend the learning:

To discuss learning Python in this course, share and meet others in a similar situation to yourself you are invited to join the Facebook group: Python 101 started for this purpose. The instructor Olof Paulson will be active and answer your questions.