Python: Introduction for Absolute Beginners

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1Python: Introduction for Absolute BeginnersBob DowlingUniversity Computing ServiceScientific computing support email course is the UCS three afternoon course on python for people who have no experience of programming at all. We warn all those people who do have some programming experience and who are here just to add the python notch to their bed post that they will be excruciatingly bored in this course. Those people who do already know how to program in another language and want to learn python are better off attending the UCS python : Introduction for Programmers one day course. For details of this course, see that the UCS python courses cover python to , which are the most common versions currently in use it does NOT cover the recently released python since that version of python is so new.

Once we know the rudiments of programming in Python we will look at the support functions offered by the base Python system. These will let us access the system outside of Python. The main example of this will be accessing the file system. Finally we will look at one last, very powerful mechanism for storing data, the “dictionary”.

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