Python 3 for Beginners

Python Course taught by Emanuel Pilz and Max Kutschka at the Faculty of Computer Science @ Technical University of Dresden.

Table of Contents

1. Getting Started
2. Expressions
3. Control Flow 1
4. Control Flow 2
5. Advent of Code

Schedule

Date (YYYY/MM/DD)	Title	Description
2023/10/27	Getting Started	Setting up Python 3 and a Development Environment
2023/11/03	—	—
2023/11/10	Expressions	The Interactive Shell, Operators, Simple data types (Integers, Floating-point Numbers, Strings), Variables
2023/11/17	Control Flow 1	Boolean data type, Comparison and Logical Expressions, input(), print(), Programming a Python-Script, if statements, else and elif clauses
2023/11/24	Control Flow 2	Loops (while, for), Lists, Tuples, range(), continue, break
2023/12/01	Advent of Code	Mutable and Immutable Sequence Types, Advent of Code
2023/12/08	—	—
2023/12/15	Functions	Defining Functions, Calling Functions, Parameters, return statement, None data type and value
2023/01/05	Practice	Problem solving and exercises, Fibonacci, Tic Tac Toe, Game of Life
2023/01/12	Dictionaries	Dictionary data type, Structuring data, more exercises
2023/01/19	Objects & Classes	Objects and Classes in Python. Library example

References

• Automate the Boring Stuff with Python by Al Sweigart
• A Byte of Python by Swaroop CH
• The Python Tutorial by the Python Software Foundation
• The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Python by Kenneth Reitz
• Advent of Code