garyditsch / PracticePython

Python lesson plans and activities for walking through helping others learn python.

PracticePython

What is the purpose of this repo?

This is a repo that I can use to help teach others that want to learn python, starting from a base of zero python experience.

The selfish truth is that I also want to get some practice using python again, as I use javascript for almost all my work and projects. I have not done much data analysis with python or utilized Django in the past few years. When I want practice, I find that teaching is one excellent way to do that!

How to utilize the lessons?

There is a file for each lesson on the main branch of this repo. In each file, you can read it like a book. If you run the file you will see the result of the code being run at each stage.

I've also tried to maintain a branch separate for each lesson. So it may be useful to pull down the repo and checkout each lesson as you work on it.

It is up to you.

Lessons that are ready for use

Lesson One:

1. use python in the terminal
2. how to create a variable
3. what is a string
4. what are some methods available for string manipulation

Lesson Two:

1. How to use Numbers in python
2. Integers
3. Floating point numbers

Lesson Three:

1. What lists are in python
2. How to target an item in a list
3. Methods that can be utilized to manipulate lists: sort(), append(), remove()

Lesson Four:

1. Continued lists
2. Getting slices of a list
3. Looping through lists