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Introduction to Python

The purpose of this tutorial is be an example-drive introduction to scripting in Python.

It's meant to be a crash course, to expose you to the things that are most useful and to explain them in such a way that someone new to programming (or rusty) would get the basic idea.

It is not designed to teach you to be a software developer, to instill good software development practices, or to educate you on the fundamentals of computer science.

Recommended Prerequesites:

• A linux command line
• a python interpreter
• a code editor
• git

You can use Binder to view/edit the code and execute it in a terminal. Get started here: .

Instructions

Each directory is a lesson. They build upon each other conceptually but still run independently.

References

Sites and sources I have consulted and consumed:

• Stackoverflow answer with a good distillation of the PEP 8 naming conventions.
• An Informal Introduction to Python from python.org.
• Akuli / python-tutorial on github
• eugeneh101 / Advanced-Python a good tutorial on more advanced Python
• Primer on Function Dectorators in Python
• Scope in Python and LEGB
• Simple Data Visualisation with Python and Pandas
• Pandas Visualization

Acknowledgements

Python 3 Champions

• arusahni for additional Boolean examples and corrections on encoding declarations
• calebmoss for better True/False examples and additional content around lists and dicts
• Correct a Python 2-ism or provide a contribution to be added!