First Steps Wrap Up

Congrats. You made it to the end of the first module. Great job. You’ve taken the first steps to learning a new programming language, and growing your IT skillset. Getting there shows real determination and a will to learn. We’ve Leer más…

First Programming Concepts

Functions and Keywords Functions and keywords are the building blocks of a language’s syntax. Functions are pieces of code that perform a unit of work. In the examples we’ve seen so far, we’ve only encountered the print() function, which prints Leer más…

Python Can Be Your Calculator

There’s a ton of things that you can do with Python and you’ll learn many of them in this course. But before we dive into complex subjects, let’s have some fun with another simple task that you can do with Leer más…

Getting Information from the User

On the whole, for a program to be useful it needs to get at least some information from the user. With this data, the program can take actions that are relevant to the user, instead of generic actions, like printing Leer más…

Hello, World!

Now that you’ve got an idea of what Python code looks like, let’s check out one of the most basic examples and dive deeper into what’s going on. Get ready. We’re going to use the Python interpreter to make our Leer más…

First PythonAnyware code

We are going to write the following code in PythonAnyware: for i in range(10): print(«Hello, World!»)   Let’s go step by step:

PythonAnyware SignUp

Now each student has to register an account in PythonAnyware, to be able to perform the exercises. How to install Python in Windows will be covered later. Now we will proceed step by step:   First, go to pythonanywhere.com and Leer más…

Other Languages

Although we picked Python for this course, it’s important to note that it’s just one of the many coding languages out there. Think of a given programming language as just one of the many powerful tools in your IT toolbox. Leer más…

More About Python

Using Python on your own The best way to learn any programming language is to practice it on your own as much as you can. If you have Python installed on your computer, you can execute the interpreter by running Leer más…

Why is Python relevant to IT?

Transcription Remember how we mentioned that Python is simple and easy to use? Python makes it easy to express the fundamental concepts of programming like data structures and algorithms with easy to read syntax. This makes Python a great language Leer más…