Python for beginners
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Python for beginners at Microsoft Overview
Duration | 3 hours |
Total fee | Free |
Mode of learning | Online |
Schedule type | Self paced |
Difficulty level | Beginner |
Official Website | Explore Free Course  |
Credential | Certificate |
Python for beginners at Microsoft Course details
- Get started with Jupyter notebooks for Python
- Get started with Python in Visual Studio
- Write your first Python programs
- Create and manage projects in Python
- Use Boolean logic in Python
- Use strings in Python
- Use mathematical operations in Python
- Introduction to lists in Python
- Use 'while' and 'for' loops in Python
- Manage data with Python dictionaries
- Python functions
- Python error handling
- Learn how to create programs and projects in Python
- Work with strings, lists, loops, dictionaries, and functions
- Build a spaceship manual that has interactive, runnable Markdown and code elements
- Get started with learning Python by installing and configuring the tools you'll need to build real applications
- In this course, you'll learn a variety of topics, like input and output to the console, variables and data types, and type conversion
Python for beginners at Microsoft Curriculum
Get started with Jupyter notebooks for Python
Introduction
Set up your environment
Exercise - Create and run your notebook
Exercise - Use advanced commands
Knowledge check
Summary
Get started with Python in Visual Studio
Introduction
Validate your Python version and installation
Install Python 3
Install Visual Studio Code
Install the Python extension
Create your first Python application
Knowledge check
Summary
Write your first Python programs
Introduction
Work with output
Exercise - Work with output
Collect input
Exercise - Collect input
Knowledge check
Summary
Create and manage projects in Python
Introduction
Work with packages
Exercise - Create a package
Work with project files
Exercise - Create and manage a project file
Knowledge check
Summary
Use Boolean logic in Python
Introduction
Write 'if' statements
What are 'else' and 'elif' statements?
Exercise - Write 'if' statements
What are 'and' and 'or' operators?
Exercise - Use 'and' and 'or' operators
Knowledge check
Summary
Use strings in Python
Introduction
String basics in Python
String methods in Python
Exercise - Transform text by using string methods
String format in Python
Exercise - Format strings
Knowledge check
Summary
Use mathematical operations in Python
Introduction
What are operators in Python?
Exercise - Use arithmetic operators
Work with numbers in Python
Exercise - Convert strings to numbers and use absolute values
Knowledge check
Summary
Introduction to lists in Python
Introduction
Introducing lists
Exercise - Create and use Python lists
Work with numbers in lists
Manipulate list data
Exercise - Work with list data
Knowledge check
Summary
Use 'while' and 'for' loops in Python
Introduction
About 'while' loops
Exercise - Create a 'while' loop
Use 'for' loops with lists
Exercise - Create a 'for' loop
Knowledge check
Summary
Manage data with Python dictionaries
Introduction
Introducing Python dictionaries
Exercise - Create Python dictionaries
Dynamic programming with dictionaries
Exercise - Dynamic programming with dictionaries
Knowledge check
Summary
Python functions
Introduction
Basics of Python functions
Use function arguments in Python
Exercise - Use functions in Python
Use keyword arguments in Python
Use variable arguments in Python
Exercise - Work with keyword arguments
Knowledge check
Summary
Python error handling
Introduction
Use tracebacks to find errors
Handle exceptions
Exercise - Handle exceptions
Raise exceptions
Exercise - Work with exceptions
Knowledge check
Summary
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