Course Information
- Available
- *The delivery and distribution of the certificate are subject to the policies and arrangements of the course provider.
Course Overview
A Hands-On Python Masterclass, With Real Life Examples, Coding Exercises, Quizzes, and Reference Code!
Welcome to the Ultimate Beginner's Python Course!
Are you new to programming? Embark on your Python adventure with a comprehensive course designed exclusively for beginners. Get ready to grasp the essential building blocks that will ignite your Python prowess and set you on the path to success.
What to Expect:
Explore a hands-on, immersive approach to Python learning that's practical and engaging. Dive into the fundamentals of programming, understand why Python is the perfect starting language, and develop a solid foundation in coding. Delve into data storage, manipulation, control flow, loops, functions, file handling, and error management. Harness the power of key Python modules to supercharge your skills. Conclude by crafting impressive portfolio-worthy mini and full-scale programs.
Course Highlights:
25+ coding assignments
20 quizzes to assess your knowledge
3000+ lines of reference code
3 interactive 'stop and code' sessions for problem-solving
Real-world 'job-interview' style questions
Continuous coding exercises through video 'pause and code' moments
Why Choose This Course?
This tailor-made course caters to absolute beginners, focusing on mastering the basics. You'll gain a strong foundation, priming you for college, school, career, or just coding for fun! With over 5 years of lecturing experience and 3000+ hours of online tutoring, I have distilled the best methods and techniques for success.
Course Syllabus:
- Discover why Python is the ideal first language and its unique differentiators
- Seamlessly install Python and run your inaugural program
- Optimize your coding experience with Visual Studio Code
- Choose between console work and Python scripting
- Grasp variables: strings, floats, integers, and booleans
- Navigate control flow and decision-making structures
- Master collections: lists, tuples, dictionaries, and sets
- Conquer loops: for loops and while loops
- Embrace functions: both built-in and user-defined
- Tackle errors, preventing them from derailing your code
- Interact with the file system: read, write, and edit files
- Leverage Python's built-in modules for system exploration, time manipulation, and randomness integration
Unlock Your Coding Potential:
Culminate your learning journey by collaboratively constructing three step-by-step programs with a focus on best practices, clean code, and design principles.
1. Encryption & decryption program
2. Word frequency counter
3. Personalized greetings generator
Launch Into the Next Level:
Conclude by crafting two substantial programs, supported by industry-standard, well-documented code. The expert guidance will lead you through planning, developing and testing the following two programs:
1. A Higher & lower guessing game
2. An Interactive maths quiz with adjustable difficulty
Enroll Today and Ignite Your Coding Passion!
Course Content
- 23 section(s)
- 92 lecture(s)
- Section 1 Introduction to the Course
- Section 2 What is Programming?
- Section 3 Installing Python and Visual Studio Code
- Section 4 Printing in Python, and introducing comments!
- Section 5 Using Variables to hold data
- Section 6 Strings
- Section 7 Integers & Floats
- Section 8 Booleans
- Section 9 Control flow
- Section 10 Collections
- Section 11 Collection Types - Lists & Tuples
- Section 12 Collection Types - Dictionaries
- Section 13 Collection Types - Sets
- Section 14 Looping in Python
- Section 15 Functions
- Section 16 Error handling
- Section 17 Dealing with Files
- Section 18 Python Modules - How to bring in other Python files
- Section 19 Chaining it all together
- Section 20 Mini Project 1 - A Higher & Lower Guessing Game
- Section 21 Mini Project 2 - A Customisable Maths Quiz
- Section 22 Requested Content
- Section 23 Coding Exercises
What You’ll Learn
- You will learn the absolute basics of how programs run, and why Python is a great language.
- You will learn how to use Visual Studio Code to write and manage code like a pro!
- You will be discovering the different data types Python has to offer, and how to use them.
- You will learn how to use control flow, to allow 'decision making' to happen in your code.
- You will learn how to use loops to allow for iteration over data, and improve code efficiency.
- You will learn how to write functions to allow for reusable blocks of code to be used elsewhere in your code.
- You will learn how to deal with errors correctly, and discover how Python manages errors internally.
- You will learn how to open, write, read and edit files on your computer with Python.
- You will learn how to manipulate dates and times with the datetime module.
- You will learn how to interact with your operating system with the OS module.
- You will learn how to deal with randomness with the random module.
- You will learn how to combine all of the covered components and create professional, well documented Python programs.
- You will write 2 fully fledged Python programs to a professional standard for use in your portfolio.
- You will write 3 mini programs to test your Python ability.
Skills covered in this course
Reviews
-
SSatya
your course is amazing, i'm not really new, i've been looking for a course to help me re-start coding (python) and this is great, worth the money :), thank you james -satya
-
VVidya Shankar Dixith
it was very usefulll course i nearnt many things worth for opting this course. Thank you sir.
-
AAndreas
The perfect course for someone who wants to start with Python!
-
LLisa Eisø Illum
Really nice with a lot of exercises and examples to work