A Python Tale • A Relaxed Programming Course for Beginners

The friendly Python programming course where you'll actually understand what's going on

A different way of learning to code in Python. This course takes you through the basics of programming in a teaching style that's friendly and relaxed.

The focus is on clarity and really understanding what's going on.

I've been teaching Python coding for a decade and I'm the author of The Python Coding Book (just ask Google for a "python book"!)

My teaching style is different. Try out the first few lessons and if it's your style, then we'll be together for a many hours.

No prior experience of Python or coding is required. This is a beginner's course.

Or perhaps you're not a beginner, but you've done a bit of coding in the past but didn't carry on. It wasn't you, it's likely you didn't find the resources that speak directly to you. I can't promise my style is what you're looking for, but you'll know after the first few lessons!

In this course you'll learn:

• How to apply the key principles and mindset for communicating with a computer through programming

• How to repeat blocks of code using `for` loops and `while` loops

• How to store data using variables and using various data types

• How to define your own functions to re-use code

• How to use data structures including lists, dictionaries, and tuples

• How to read data from external text files and spreadsheets and write data to these file formats

• How to apply best practices when coding

This course will teach you all the fundamental tools, of course, but more importantly, it will teach you the right mindset for programming. This is just as important as learning all the programming techniques—if not more important.

And you'll also meet Monty, the main character in an analogy I love which I'll share with you in this course—trust me, this analogy alone is worth your time as Python programming will make so much more sense…