Python Basics for absolute beginners (Skillshare)

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Python Basics for absolute beginners (Skillshare)

Learn Python programming with this Python tutorial for absolute beginners. You will learn the basic of programming. You don't need to know anything about programming to follow this tutorial however you should know basic about computer, like open a program, save a file, etc.

PROPOSED EXERCISES

  1. Write a program to check whether a number is negative, positive or zero
  2. Write a program to check whether a character is alphabet or not
  3. Write a program to input week number and print week day
  4. Write a program to count total number of notes in given amount 200,100,50,20,10,5
  5. You are looking for a new member to expand your programming.It should be a person from ages 18 to 40Write a program to ask the user’s age and whether the user has previous python experience(using 'y' or 'n'). Display a message indicating whether the person is eligible to join your team.

Loops

  1. Print all natural numbers (from 1 to 10) in reverse order
  2. Print all even numbers between 1 to 100
  3. Find sum of all natural numbers between 1 to n
  4. Print the multiplication table of any number

Functions

  1. Find sum of all natural numbers between 1 to n using functions
  2. Print the multiplication table of any number using functions

Write a guessing game where the user has to guess a secret number. After every guess the program tells the user whether the secret number is larger or smaller. The maximum number of tries is 3
In case you would like to continue learning python, please feel free to check out my website. I regularly post programming tips and guidance, projects and step by step tutorials.

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