Learn Python

I wrote this for my highschool kids who like to play games.

Schedule

Following the Automate The Boring Stuff with Python book and the companion videos, here is the schedule:

Week	Reading	YouTube	HW Due Fri	Projects Due Sun
1	Chapter 1	Lesson 2, 3	Chapter 1
2	Chapter 2	Lesson 4, 5
3		Lesson 6,7,8	Chapter 2
4	Chapter 3	Lesson 9,10,11
5		Lesson 12	Chapter 3	The Collatz Sequence and Input Validation
6	Chapter 4	Lesson 13,14,15	Chapter 4
7	Chapter 5		Chapter 5	Fantasy Game Inventory and List to Dictionary
8	Chapter 6		Chapter 6	Table Printer

Class Materials

• Lessons

  • Chapter 1 – Python Basics
  • Chapter 2 – Flow Control
  • Chapter 3 – Functions
  • Chapter 4 – Lists
  • Chapter 5 – Dictionaries and Structuring Data
  • Chapter 6 – Manipulating Strings

• YouTube

  • Lesson 2 covers expressions, data types, and variables
  • Lesson 3 covers writing your first "Hello World" program in Python
  • Lesson 4 covers Flow charts, boolean values, comparison operators, and boolean operators
  • Lesson 5 covers if, elif, and else flow control statements
  • Lesson 6 covers while loops, and the break and continue statements -Lesson 7 covers for loops and the range() function -Lesson 8 covers import Statements, sys.exit(), the pyperclip Module -Lesson 9 covers functions, parameters, arguments, return values, and keyword arguments -Lesson 10 covers global scope and local scope -Lesson 11 covers try and except statements -Lesson 12 covers combining all the previous concepts to make a small "Guess the Number" game -Lesson 13 covers lists, indexes, slices, and the list() function -Lesson 14 covers for Loops with Lists, Multiple Assignment, Augmented Assignment Operators -Lesson 15 covers Methods and the index(), append(), insert(), remove(), sort() List Methods

Other References

• github: PyGame Examples
• classic video games