First Steps with Python

Contribution List

1. Welcome & Organization

14/02/2024, 10:00

2. Setting up a Python Project

14/02/2024, 10:15

Lessons

You learn how a basic project is set up and explore two approaches to Python programming: using the REPL and writing Python files.

4. Variables, Assignments and Data Types

14/02/2024, 10:30

Lessons

Get to know the basic constructs for storing and manipulating information in a program. Understand what data types are and how they influence how information is processed.

3. Importing

14/02/2024, 11:15

Lessons

Since projects often get distributed over multiple files or require code from other sources, we will investigate how to import code from other files or libraries.

5. Conditionals

14/02/2024, 12:30

Lessons

It is often necessary to check conditions and act accordingly. This section will cover expressing those conditions and how to control in which order they get checked and how to react to them.

6. While-Loops

14/02/2024, 13:15

Lessons

Loops are a good choice when it comes to repeating actions. In this section, the "while"-loop will be introduced as a method of repeating code based on condition.

14. Exercise: Basics

14/02/2024, 14:30

Exercises

In this exercise session we will write our first own programs to solve small problems. The focus is on gaining experience with the use of assignments, conditionals and loops and fostering structure-oriented thinking.

7. Recap from Day 1

15/02/2024, 10:00

8. Functions

15/02/2024, 10:15

Lessons

Splitting parts of programs off into self contained, reusable blocks is a good way to handle complexity and allow for parts of a program to also be used in other projects.

9. For-Loops

15/02/2024, 11:15

Lessons

Introducing the second kind of loop, the "for"-loop is well suited to iterate over a set of data or repeat a set of instructions a given amount of times.

15. Exercise: Increased Complexity

15/02/2024, 12:30

Exercises

Further training the use of the basic structures to solve increasingly complex problems. Planning approaches to solve tasks that are increasingly hard to solve by "just doing it".

16. Exercise: Functions

15/02/2024, 14:30

Exercises

In addition to the basic concepts we will now also use functions to better structure and sub-divide our programs, enabling us to solve increasingly complex tasks.

10. Recap from Day 2

16/02/2024, 10:00

11. Tuples

16/02/2024, 10:15

Lessons

Tuples are a great way to bundle up multiple values. Learn how to employ them and take advantage of Python's automatic Packing/unpacking feature.

12. Lists

16/02/2024, 10:45

Lessons

Another very useful data type is the List, a sorted collection of data. In this section we introduce some basic functionality and learn where to find more detailed information for this data type and many others.

13. Finalizing the Project

16/02/2024, 11:15

Lessons

We will put some finishing touches on our example project to make it ready for a first release. Further, possible future learning paths will be outlined.

17. Exercise: Larger Programs

16/02/2024, 12:30

Exercises

In this exercise part we will encounter increasingly complex tasks that also require the use of lists, tuples, other loop structures and imports. The required approaches need to become increasingly more structured and require subdividing into multiple files.