Course overview
This interactive Python course for beginners develops fundamental data science skills to help you begin your journey to become a successful data professional.In this course, you’ll learn to do basic arithmetic; write code using Python syntax; work with different types of data; and perform basic Python operations such as working with variables, processing numerical and text data, and manipulating lists.
Best of all, you’ll learn by doing — you’ll write code and get feedback directly in the browser.
Key skills
- Processing numerical and text data
- Performing basic Python operations such as creating variables and lists
- Processing numerical data and text data
- Writing computer programs using Python
Course outline
Introduction to Python Programming [4 lessons]
Python Programming 1h
Lesson Objectives- Write computer programs in Python
- Print values
- Perform arithmetical operations
- Employ code comments
Programming Python Variables 1h
Lesson Objectives- Save values using variables
- Update variables
- Employ syntax shortcuts to update variables
Python Data Types: Integers, Floats, Strings 1h
Lesson Objectives- Process numerical data
- Process text data
- Convert data types
Python Lists 2h
Lesson Objectives- Employ lists in Python
- Index and slice lists
- Retrieve values from lists
- Employ lists of lists in Python
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