Python-Tutorial

A short tutorial on basic Python 3 interspersed with several exercises, intended as a fast-paced introduction to Python and to programming for undergraduate students. It discusses the following topics:

• Python and Jupyter notebooks
• Basic types and operations
• Strings
• Collections (lists, tuples, sets and dictionaries)
• Decision structures (if-else-elif and match)
• Loop structures (for and while)
• Functions and modules

Textbook recommendation:

• Zelle, John — Python Programming: An Introduction to Computer Science, 3rd ed. (2016) — Franklin, Beedle & Associates