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Getting Started With Python

This document summarizes an online course titled "Getting Started with Python" from Coursera. The course aims to teach Python programming basics to anyone with moderate computer experience. It will cover Chapters 1-5 of the textbook "Python for Everybody", including installing Python, variables, expressions, conditional statements, functions, and loops. Upon completing the course, students will be ready for more advanced Python courses. The course materials include video lectures, demonstrations, interviews, and office hours from various global locations.

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Getting Started With Python

This document summarizes an online course titled "Getting Started with Python" from Coursera. The course aims to teach Python programming basics to anyone with moderate computer experience. It will cover Chapters 1-5 of the textbook "Python for Everybody", including installing Python, variables, expressions, conditional statements, functions, and loops. Upon completing the course, students will be ready for more advanced Python courses. The course materials include video lectures, demonstrations, interviews, and office hours from various global locations.

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Online Course Catalog and Directory | Coursera

Python for Everybody


Charles Severance

Python for Everybody - Full University Python Course - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeznW_7DlB0

Getting Started with Python


Programming for Everybody
This course aims to teach everyone the basics of programming computers using Python. We cover the
basics of how one constructs a program from a series of simple instructions in Python. The course has
no pre-requisites and avoids all but the simplest mathematics. Anyone with moderate computer
experience should be able to master the materials in this course. This course will cover Chapters 1-5 of
the textbook “Python for Everybody”. Once a student completes this course, they will be ready to take
more advanced programming courses. This course covers Python 3.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

 Install Python and write your first program

 Describe the basics of the Python programming language

 Use variables to store, retrieve and calculate information

 Utilize core programming tools such as functions and loops

Chapter One - Why we Program?

These are the course-wide materials as well as the first part of Chapter One where we explore what it
means to write programs. We finish Chapter One and have the quiz and first assignment in the third
week of the class. Throughout the course you may want to come back and look at these materials. This
section should not take you an entire week.

Video: Welcome to Class - Dr. Chuck4m


Video: Welcome to Python - Guido van Rossum1m
1.1 - Why Program11m
1.2 - Hardware Overview11m
1.3 - Python as a Language7m
Fun: The Textbook Authors Meet @PyCon20153m
Face to Face Office Hours - Bengaluru, India2m
Installing and Using Python

In this module you will set things up so you can write Python programs. Not all activities in this module
are required for this class so please read the "Using Python in this Class" material for details.

Demonstration: Using the Python Playground3m


Windows 10: Installing Python and Writing A Program8m
Windows: Taking Screen Shots2m
Macintosh: Using Python and Writing A Program4m
Macintosh: Taking Screen Shots4m
Bonus: Eben Upton and the RaspBerry Pi9m

Chapter One: Why We Program (continued)

In the first chapter we try to cover the "big picture" of programming so you get a "table of contents" of
the rest of the book. Don't worry if not everything makes perfect sense the first time you hear it. This
chapter is quite broad and you would benefit from reading the chapter in the book in addition to
watching the lectures to help it all sink in. You might want to come back and re-watch these lectures
after you have funished a few more chapters.

1.4 - Writing Paragraphs of Code16m


Demonstration: Doing the "Hello World" Assignment5m
Interview: Daphne Koller - Building Coursera11m
Face-to-Face Office Hours: Milan, Italy3m

Chapter Two: Variables and Expressions

In this chapter we cover how a program uses the computer's memory to store, retrieve and calculate
information.

2.1 - Expressions13m
2.2 - Expressions Part 220m
2.3 - Expressions - Part 37m
Worked Exercise: 2.37m
Interview: Pooja Sankar - Building Piazza6m
Office Hours: Mountain View, CA52s

Chapter Three: Conditional Code

In this section we move from sequential code that simply runs one line of code after another to
conditional code where some steps are skipped. It is a very simple concept - but it is how computer
software makes "choices".

3.1 Conditional Statements14m


3.2 More Conditional Statements17m
Worked Exercise: 3.29m
Interview: Massimo Banzi: The Arduino11m
Office Hours: Seoul Korea4m
Chapter Four: Functions

This is a relatively short chapter. We will learn about what functions are and how we can use them. The
programs in the first chapters of the book are not large enough to require us to develop functions, but
as the book moves into more and more complex programs, functions will be an essential way for us to
make sense of our code.

4.1 - Using Functions9m


4.2 - Building Functions12m
Interview: Guido van Rossum: The Early Years of Python11m
Office Hours: Manila Philippines1m

Chapter Five: Loops and Iteration

Loops and iteration complete our four basic programming patterns. Loops are the way we tell Python to
do something over and over. Loops are the way we build programs that stay with a problem until the
problem is solved.

5.1 - Loops and Iteration9m


5.2 - Definite Loops6m
5.3 - Finding the Largest Value8m
5.4 - Loop Idioms18m
Worked Exercise: 5.18m
What's Next - Dr.Chuck2m
Interview: Guido van Rossum - The Modern Era of Python12m
Office Hours: Paris, France52s

Programming for Everybody (Getting Started with Python) | Coursera

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