Python for Beginners Level 3

From getting started with Python through developing your skills in looping, branching, lists and dictionaries, this introductory course gives you all the skills you need to get starting with this programming language. With everything you need at the click of a button in your own personal online platform, you can learn whenever and wherever is most convenient to you. Join over [past_students_count] people that have studied with us and enrol with us today. Home learning couldn’t be easier!

Course Content

Lesson 1 Getting started

• Introduction
• Introduction to Python
• Understanding variables
• Python strings
• Performing arithmetic
• Logical operations
• Working with numbers
• Working with strings

Lesson 2 Looping and branching

• Introduction
• Branching statements
• The WHILE loop
• Guess the number game
• The FOR loop
• The anagram game

Lesson 3 Lists and dictionaries

• Introduction
• Introducing lists
• List methods
• Nested sequences
• Introducing dictionaries
• The hangman game

Lesson 4 Functions

• Introduction
• Creating functions
• Parameters and arguments
• Variables in functions
• The noughts and crosses game (1)
• The noughts and crosses game (2)

Lesson 5 Accessing files

• Introduction
• Accessing text files
• Storing complex data in files
• Handling exceptions
• The sports quiz

Lesson 6 Python objects

• Introduction
• Classes, methods, and objects
• Constructors and attributes
• Class attributes and static methods
• Private attributes, methods and properties
• The hungry caterpillar game

Lesson 7 Object-orientated programming

• Introduction
• Creating multiple classes
• Inheritance
• Changing inherited methods
• Creating modules
• The blackjack game (1)
• The blackjack game (2)

Lesson 8 GUI development

• Introduction
• Event-driven programming (1)
• Event-driven programming (2)
• Check boxes plus
• The grid layout manager
• The contact form

Lesson 9 Incorporating graphics

• Introduction
• Graphics window basics
• Displaying objects
• Moving sprites
• Collision detection
• The catch the butterfly game

Lesson 10 Adding sound and animation

• Introduction
• Keyboard commands
• Animation, sound, and music
• The meteor mayhem game (Part 1)
• The meteor mayhem game (Part 2)
• The meteor mayhem game (Part 3)
• The meteor mayhem game (Part 4)