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Python Basics

Objective

Learn the basics of Python language

• Writing code
• Comments
• Numeric types and Strings
• String formating

Reference

Essentials

• From Byte of Python read the following chapters
  • About Python
  • First Steps
  • Basics
  • Operators
• From Dive into Python3, read the following chapters
  • Ch 1 - Your first python program
  • Ch 2 - Data types - numeric and strings
  • Ch 4 - Strings - numeric and strings

Exercises

Essentials

• Work with numbers and strings - Start with this notebook

Checklist

At this point, you should:

• be comfortable in writing and executing Python code
• work with numbers and strings and operators
• Print out formatted strings

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