Learning Python

Introduction

• Learning Python
• What you should know
• Exercise files

• Installing Python
• How to run the Python examples
• Installing VS Code

• Your first Python program
• Running Python from VS Code
• Variables and expressions
• Python functions
• Conditional structures
• Loops
• Classes
• Importing and using modules

• The date, time, and datetime classes
• Formatting time output
• Using timedelta objects
• Working with calendars

• Reading and writing files
• Working with OS path utilities
• Using file system shell methods

• Fetching internet data
• Working with JSON data
• Parsing and processing HTML
• Manipulating XML

• Next steps