Introduction to Python Programming

About this course

This course provides an introduction to programming and the Python language. Students are introduced to core programming concepts like data structures, conditionals, loops, variables, and functions. This course includes an overview of the various tools available for writing and running Python, and gets students coding quickly. It also provides hands-on coding exercises using commonly used data structures, writing custom functions, and reading and writing to files. This course may be more robust than some other introductory python courses, as it delves deeper into certain essential programming topics.

What you will learn

• Identify core aspects of programming and features of the Python language
• Understand and apply core programming concepts like data structures, conditionals, loops, variables, and functions
• Use different tools for writing and running Python code
• Design and write fully-functional Python programs using commonly used data structures, custom functions, and reading and writing to files