Python Programming: A Concise Introduction

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Learn how to install Python and use the Spyder IDE (Integrated Development Environment) for writing and debugging programs.

In this course, you will learn how to:

• write functions in Python using the convenient Spyder development environment.
• use the editor in Spyder to type in a function and then run it.
• work with Lists, datatypes, libraries, and random library.
• build lists of various types and how to sort these lists.

You will be introduced to writing functions in Python using the convenient Spyder development environment.

The lesson begins with instructions on installing the popular Anaconda distribution of Python, which includes Spyder. It continues by showing how to use the editor in Spyder to type in a function and then run it.

You will learn about Python topics such as print statement, arithmetic operators, input statement, combining of strings, if statement, while loop, and for loop.

You will learn to work with Lists, datatypes, libraries, and random library. So far, there is one collection data type, the list. Well, you will take two more: the tuple and the data dictionary.

After that, you will be introduced to reading and writing text files and giving some illustrative examples. Next, you will take up reading and writing Comma Separated Value (CSV) files.

You will see how functions can return values. Then, you will see how to build lists of various types and how to sort these lists.

After that, you will use the statistic library to learn about basic descriptive statistics.

Finally, you will learn how to use formatting in print statements.