Use Python basics to solve mysteries and find answers
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Use Python basics to solve mysteries and find answers at Microsoft Overview
Duration | 1 hour |
Total fee | Free |
Mode of learning | Online |
Schedule type | Self paced |
Difficulty level | Beginner |
Official Website | Explore Free Course  |
Credential | Certificate |
Use Python basics to solve mysteries and find answers at Microsoft Course details
- Get started with Python in Visual Studio
- Crack the code and reveal a secret with Python and Visual Studio Code
- What is your super sleuth personality?
- In this learning path, you'll: Discover ways you can engage with code to solve basic problems, Write your first lines in Python, Build a message decoder program, Create a personality quiz to determine your super sleuth character
- Get started with learning Python by installing and configuring the tools you'll need to build real applications
- Learn how to solve the code mystery to reveal a location and date to find a hidden treasure
Use Python basics to solve mysteries and find answers at Microsoft Curriculum
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
Crack the code and reveal a secret with Python and Visual Studio Code
Introduction to using a secret message decoder
Exercise - Check that Visual Studio Code is ready to decode messages
Exercise - Python basics for creating a secret message decoder
Exercise - Decode one letter at a time with a Caesar cipher
Exercise - Decode one letter with a Caesar cipher by wrapping around the English alphabet
Exercise - Decode a full word with a Caesar cipher
Exercise - Use the Lasso decoder to reveal the secret message
Knowledge check
Summary
What is your super sleuth personality?
Use Python to create your own personality quiz
Exercise - Ensure that Visual Studio Code is ready to create a personality quiz
Exercise - Python basics needed for a super sleuth personality quiz
Exercise - Asking the user a question in your super sleuth personality quiz
Exercise - Checking the user's response in your super sleuth personality quiz
Exercise - Completing your super sleuth personality quiz
Exercise - Choose a super sleuth character based on personality quiz score
Check your knowledge
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