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A Python learning tool with beginner exercises in using variables, data structures and basic control flow. Instructions and guidance are given in comments in the file.
Compatible with both Python 3 and Python 2.
Also designed to be PEP-8 compliant to encourage good coding style.
- Printing
- Variables
- Basic maths operators (add, subtract, multiply)
- Basic variable types (strings, integers)
- Concatenating strings
- Casting an integer to a string
- Booleans (True / False)
- Inequalities (Greater Than / Less Than)
- If/Else statements
- Lists
- List methods (append, extend)
- Adding lists together with +
- Sets
- For Loops
- Indexing strings
- Splitting strings
- Tuples
- Dictionaries
Run the command wget http://goo.gl/0ZDOdX -O intro.py --no-check-certificate and open with idle3 intro.py &.
Run the file with F5 to see the output then go back to the code and read the instructions, edit away, save and run again.
The code works in both versions of Python, but Python 3 is recommended. Read about this in our documentation.
Unless otherwise specified, everything in this repository is covered by the following licence:
Python Intro by Ben Nuttall is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence.
Based on a work at https://github.com/bennuttall/python-intro