Weekly Python Exercise A1

What you’ll learn

• Basic data structures – learn to create and modify strings, lists, tuples, and dictionaries: they keys to understanding how Python works
• Working with user input – discover how to translate simple user input into complex and useful data to accomplish important tasks
• Presenting output to the user – go beyond the basic “print” function and display output in a meaningful way to users
• Iteration with “for” and “while” loops – sometimes you’ll need to execute something multiple times… learn how and when you should
• Reading from and writing to text files – you’ll want to communicate with the outside world, and that often means reading from someone else’s files and/or writing to files that someone else can read… we’ll practice how to do both in Python
• Writing (and calling) simple functions – understand one of the most important actions in programming: “packaging up” commonly used code into simple packages that are easy to access and use

Instructor

This course, like all others on LernerPython.com, is taught by Reuven Lerner.