Python Programming for Beginners - Learn in 100 Easy Steps

Table of contents

1. Chapter 1 : Introduction
   1. Introduction
   2. How to Make Best use of the Course Guide?
   3. Installing Python and Launching Python Shell
2. Chapter 2 : Introduction to Python Programming With Multiplication Table
   1. Step 01 - Getting Started with Programming
   2. Step 02 - Introduction to Multiplication Table challenge
   3. Step 03 - Break down Multiplication Table Challenge
   4. Step 04 - Python Expression - An Introduction
   5. Step 05 - Python Expression – Exercises
   6. Step 06 - Python Expression – Puzzles
   7. Step 07 - Printing output to console with Python
   8. Step 08 - Calling Functions in Python – Puzzles
   9. Step 09 - Advanced Printing output to console with Python
   10. Step 10 - Advanced Printing output to console with Python - Exercises and Puzzle
   11. Step 11 - Introduction to Variables in Python
   12. Step 12 - Introduction to Variables in Python – Puzzles
   13. Step 13 - Assignment Statement
   14. Step 14 - Tip - Using formatted strings in print method
   15. Step 15 - Using For Loop to Print Multiplication Table
   16. Step 16 - Using For Loop in Python – Puzzles
   17. Step 17 - Using For Loop in Python – Exercises
   18. Step 18 - Getting Started with Programming - Revise all Terminology
3. Chapter 3 : Introduction to Methods - Multiplication Table
   1. Step 00 - Section 02 - Methods - An Introduction
   2. Step 01 - Your First Python Method - Hello World Twice and Exercise Statements
   3. Step 02 - Introduction to Python Methods – Exercises
   4. Step 03 - Introduction to Python Methods - Arguments and Parameters
   5. Step 04 - Introduction to Python Method Parameters – Exercises
   6. Step 05 - Introduction to Python Method - Multiple Parameters
   7. Step 06 - Getting back to Multiplication Table - Creating a method
   8. Step 07 - Tip - Indentation is king
   9. Step 08 - Introduction to Python Method - Puzzles - Named Parameters
   10. Step 09 - Introduction to Python Method - Return Values
   11. Step 10 - Introduction to Python Method - Return Values – Exercises
4. Chapter 4 : Introduction to Python Platform
   1. Step 01 - Writing and Executing your First Python Script
   2. Step 02 - Python Virtual Machine and bytecode
5. Chapter 5 : Introduction to PyCharm
   1. Step 01 - Installing and Introduction to PyCharm
   2. Step 02 - Write and Execute a Python File with PyCharm
   3. Step 03 - Execise - Write Multiplication Table Method with PyCharm
   4. Step 04 - Debugging Code with PyCharm
   5. Step 05 - PyCharm Tips: Tool Windows
   6. Step 06 - PyCharm Tips: Keyboard Shortcuts
6. Chapter 6 : Basic Numeric Data Types and Conditional Execution
   1. Step 01 - Introduction to Numeric Data Types
   2. Step 02 - Exercise - Calculate Simple Interest
   3. Step 03 - Introduction to Numeric Data Types – Puzzles
   4. Step 04 - Introduction to Boolean Data Type
   5. Step 05 - Introduction to If Condition
   6. Step 06 - Introduction to If Condition – Exercises
   7. Step 07 - Logical Operators - and or not
   8. Step 08 - Logical Operators - and or not – Puzzles
   9. Step 09 - Introduction to If Condition - else and elif
   10. Step 10 - if, else and elif - Menu Exercise - Part 1
   11. Step 11 - if, else and elif - Menu Exercise - Part 2
   12. Step 12 - if, else and elif – Puzzles
7. Chapter 7 : Text in Python
   1. Step 01 - Text in Python - Methods in str class
   2. Step 02 - Data Type Conversion – Puzzles
   3. Step 03 - Strings are immutable
   4. Step 04 - There is no separate Character data type
   5. Step 05 - String module
   6. Step 06 - Exercise - is vowel, print lower case and upper case characters
   7. Step 07 - String - Exercises and Puzzles
   8. Step 08 - String – Conclusion
8. Chapter 8 : Python Loops
   1. Step 01 - For loop basics
   2. Step 02 - For loop exercise 1 - is_prime
   3. Step 03 - For loop exercise 2 - sum_upto_n
   4. Step 04 - For loop exercise 3 - sum of divisors
   5. Step 05 – For loop exercise 4 - print a number triangle
   6. Step 06 - Introduction to while loop in Python
   7. Step 07 - While loop – Exercises
   8. Step 08 - Choosing a Loop - Menu Exercise
   9. Step 09 - Loops - Puzzles - break and continue
9. Chapter 9 : Python Tips for Beginners
   1. Tip 1 - Using Predefined Python Modules
   2. Tip 2 - Loop - Getting Index Element
   3. Tip 3 - Short hand If Statement
   4. Tip 4 - Python is Strongly Typed and Dynamic Language
   5. Tip 4 - Beginners Mistakes – Shadowing
   6. Tip 5 - Beginners Mistakes – Indentation
   7. Tip 6 - PEP8 - Python Style Guide
   8. Tip 7 - PEP20 - Zen of Python
10. Chapter 10 : Introduction to Object Oriented Programming
    1. Step 00 - Introduction to Object Oriented Programming - Section Overview
    2. Step 01 - Introduction to Object Oriented Programming – Basics
    3. Step 02 - Introduction to Object Oriented Programming - Terminology - Class, Object
    4. Step 03 - Introduction to Object Oriented Programming - Exercise - Online Shopping
    5. Step 04 - First Class and Object - Country class
    6. Step 05 - Create Motor Bike Python Class and a couple of objects
    7. Step 06 - Class and Objects - a few Puzzles
    8. Step 07 - Constructor for MotorBike class
    9. Step 08 - Constructor for Book class – Exercise
    10. Step 09 - Constructors – Puzzles
    11. Step 10 - Class and Objects - Methods and Behavior
    12. Step 11 - Exercise - Enhance Book class with copies
    13. Step 12 - Class and Objects - Methods and Behavior - Puzzles on self
    14. Step 13 - Advantages of Encapsulation
    15. Step 14 - Everything is Object in Python
11. Chapter 11 : Python Data Structures
    1. Step 01 - Python Data Structures - Why do we need them?
    2. Step 02 - Operations on List Data Structure
    3. Step 03 - Exercise with List - Student class
    4. Step 04 - Puzzles with Strings Lists
    5. Step 05 - List Slicing
    6. Step 06 - List Sorting, Looping and Reversing
    7. Step 07 - List as a Stack and Queue
    8. Step 08 - List with a custom class - Country and representation
    9. Step 08 - List with a custom class - Part 2 - sorting, max and min
    10. Step 09 - List Comprehension
    11. Step 10 - Introduction to Set
    12. Step 11 - Introduction to Dictionary
    13. Step 12 - Exercise with Dictionary - Word and Character Occurrences
    14. Step 13 - Puzzles with Data Structures
    15. Step 14 – Tuples
12. Chapter 12 : Object Oriented Programming Again
    1. Step 01 - OOPS Basics Revised
    2. Step 02 - Designing a Fan Class
    3. Step 03 - Object Composition - Book and Reviews
    4. Step 04 - Why do we need Inheritance
    5. Step 05 - All classes in Python 3 inherit from object
    6. Step 06 - Multiple Inheritance
    7. Step 07 - Creating and Using an Abstract Class
    8. Step 08 - Template Method Pattern with Recipe Class
    9. Step 09 - A Quick Revision
13. Chapter 13 : Error Handling with Python
    1. Step 01 - Introduction to Error Handling - Your Thought Process during Error Handling
    2. Step 02 - Basics of Exception Hierarchy
    3. Step 03 - Basics of Error Handling - try except
    4. Step 04 - Handling Multiple Errors with Multiple except blocks
    5. Step 05 - Error Handling - Puzzles - Exception Details
    6. Step 06 - Error Handling - finally and else
    7. Step 07 - Error Handling - Puzzles 2
    8. Step 08 - Raising Exceptions
    9. Step 09 - Raising Custom Exceptions
14. Chapter 14 : A Few More Python Tips
    1. Tip 1 - Math Module and Decimal Class
    2. Tip 2 - Statistics Module - find mean and median
    3. Tip 3 - Collections Module - deque for Queue and Stack
    4. Tip 4 - Date Module
    5. Tip 5 - Methods and Arguments – Basics
    6. Tip 6 - Methods and Arguments - Keyword Arguments
    7. Tip 7 - Methods and Arguments - Unpacking Lists and Dictionaries
    8. Tip 8 - Creating Custom Modules and Using Them
    9. Tip 9 - Defining Equality for Classes
    10. Tip 10 – None
15. Chapter 15 : Thank You and Congratulations
    1. Congratulations