From 0 to 1: Learn Python Programming – Easy as Pie

A Python course for absolute beginners - this will take you to a fairly serious early intermediate level.

Created by: Loony Corn
An ex-Google, Stanford and Flipkart team

What Will I Learn?

• Pick up programming even if you have NO programming experience at all
• Write Python programs of moderate complexity
• Perform complicated text processing - splitting articles into sentences and words and doing things with them
• Work with files, including creating Excel spreadsheets and working with zip files
• Apply simple machine learning and natural language processing concepts such as classification, clustering and summarization
• Understand Object-Oriented Programming in a Python context

Requirements

• No prior programming experience is needed 🙂
• The course will use a Python IDE (integrated development environment) called iPython from Anaconda. We will go through a step-by-step procedure on downloading and installing this IDE.

Target audience

• Yep! Folks with zero programming experience looking to learn a new skill
• Machine Learning and Language Processing folks looking to apply concepts in a full-fledged programming language
• Yep! Computer Science students or software engineers with no experience in Java, but experience in Python, C++ or even C#. You might need to skip over some bits, but in general the class will still have new learning to offer you 🙂