This is a tutorial for novice programmers. You are the learner I had in mind when writing these exercises if:
- you have no programming experience at all
- you have some experience with a different programming language like R, MATLAB or C.
- you would like to teach Python to others
Pick an exercise and start programming!
| Chapter | Difficulty |
|---|---|
| Installing Python | ⭐ |
| Python as a calculator | ⭐ |
| Hello World | ⭐ |
| Ada Lovelace | ⭐ |
| Rock-Paper-Scissors | ⭐ |
| Square Numbers | ⭐ |
| Slideshow | ⭐ |
| Chapter | Difficulty |
|---|---|
| Strings | ⭐ |
| Lists | ⭐ |
| Dictionaries | ⭐⭐ |
| Nested Lists | ⭐⭐ |
| Data Types Overview | ⭐ |
| Challenge | Difficulty |
|---|---|
| Reading a text file | ⭐ |
| Extracting data from text | ⭐ |
| Writing files | ⭐ |
| Create a Time Series | ⭐ |
| Working with directories | ⭐ |
| Chapter | Difficulty |
|---|---|
| Conditional Loops | ⭐ |
| Writing your own Functions | ⭐⭐ |
| Shortcuts | ⭐⭐ |
| Challenge | Difficulty |
|---|---|
| Christmas Tree | ⭐ |
| Pyramid | ⭐ |
| Fizz-Buzz-Test | ⭐ |
| Tic-Tac-Toe | ⭐⭐ |
| Checkerboard | ⭐⭐ |
| Challenge | Difficulty |
|---|---|
| Palindrome | ⭐⭐ |
| Anagrams | ⭐⭐ |
| Roman Numbers | ⭐⭐⭐ |
| Encryption | ⭐⭐⭐ |
| Minesweeper | ⭐⭐⭐ |
| Challenge | Difficulty |
|---|---|
| Factorials | ⭐ |
| Common Divisor | ⭐ |
| Fibonacci | ⭐⭐ |
| Multiplicative Digital Root | ⭐⭐ |
| Birthday Problem | ⭐⭐ |
| Challenge | Difficulty |
|---|---|
| Binary Search | ⭐ |
| Sorting Algorithms | ⭐ |
| Chained List | ⭐⭐ |
| Josephus' Problem | ⭐⭐ |
| Tree Traversal | ⭐⭐ |
| Graph Traversal | ⭐⭐⭐ |
| Magic Square | ⭐⭐⭐ |
| Traveling Salesman | ⭐⭐⭐ |
| Backpack Problem | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ |
| Blockchain | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ |
| Challenge | Difficulty |
|---|---|
| Ping Pong | ⭐⭐ |
| Google Search | ⭐⭐⭐ |
| Download Web Pages | ⭐⭐⭐ |
© 2015 Dr. Kristian Rother (krother@academis.eu)
with contributions by Allegra Via, Kaja Milanowska, Anna Philips, @ShalokShalom and @devSython.
Distributed under the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution Share-alike License 4.0
Sources of this document can be found on https://github.com/krother/Python3_Basics_Tutorial
I would like to thank the following people for inspiring exchange on training and Python that this tutorial has benefited from: Pedro Fernandes, Tomasz Puton, Edward Jenkins, Bernard Szlachta, Robert Lehmann and Magdalena Rother