PART IBASICS
Part I of this book teaches you the basic concepts you’ll need to write Python programs. Many of these concepts are common to all programming languages, so they’ll be useful throughout your life as a programmer.
In Chapter 1 you’ll install Python on your computer and run your first program, which prints the message Hello world! to the screen.
In Chapter 2 you’ll learn to store information in variables and work with text and numerical values.
Chapters 3 and 4 introduce lists. Lists can store as much information as you want in one variable, allowing you to work with that data efficiently. You’ll be able to work with hundreds, thousands, and even millions of values in just a few lines of code.
In Chapter 5 you’ll use if statements to ...
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