Python in 3 days - Day 1

This three part series can be done in 3 days on a slow track. If you are a programmer then 3 hours at a shot at this article and the two to follow will get you through with the basics!

Python is a programming language that is used to create

• web applications

• data science

• scripting : automating boring stuff!

FACTS

• created by Guido Van Rossum

• works on different platforms

• procedural, object-oriented or functional

• interpreter

• text editor or IDE (IDLE3, Pycharm, Eclipse, Sublime, Jupyter,etc)

INSTALLATION & RUNNING CODE

• Python Pre-installed nowadays or you may download it from

  • https://www.python.org/downloads/

• Run python file from terminal using command :

  python <filename.py>

• Run instructions from cmd line

  python -c 'from printNum import *; printNum(9)

Let’s get to action and write some lines of code.

Here’s a summary of what you’d learn

• Variables, Expressions and Statements

• Flow Control Statements

• Built-in Functions

• Modules

• Data Structures - List, Tuples, Set,Dictionaries

• Strings - String methods, Formatting Strings

You can find the code here with full explanation - https://github.com/amissier/MLAI/blob/main/Python_Fundamentals.ipynb

Happy coding!!!