Python for Beginners [How to Learn Python Tutorial]

Python for Beginners - How to Learn Python Tutorial

Welcome to this introductory video on Python. First, we will explain what Python is and why it has become such an important tool nowadays. Python is a free open-source object-oriented programming language that is widely used in business and education.

Python’s popularity is mainly due to its enormous range of possibilities; areas in which it is used are among others: web development, software development, desktop GUIs, data analysis and modeling. Another major strength of Python is the extensive standard library and the many third-party Python software packages for machine learning, web scraping and multimedia to name only a few.

After shortly introducing Python and its means, we explain how to download and install it on your computer. In a first step, we show how to make Python operational on your computer on a standalone basis. We also show how to run code with this. In a second step, we show how to install Python together with the development environment Spyder which offers you code interpreter, debugger, package manager and version control system. This way, you have all the tools to start a programming project.

When we have downloaded and installed Python together with the Spyder development environment, we start by showing how to adjust the programming screen to your needs and wishes. If you have a programming background in R or Matlab, you can adjust the view of your development environment to the standard views of Rstudio and Matlab.

Next, we set the view to the Rstudio format, as this is my own personal programming background, and go over all panels on the screen: the editor, the console, the variable explorer together with the history log and the file explorer together with the help page. We also start coding a bit to show the features of each panel. To do this, we show the print function and dive a bit deeper into the syntax an a few functionalities of this function.

On this note, we finish our beginner video for Python.

Downloading standalone Python 1:15 Print command 1:50 Python with Spyder 3:10 How to Configure Spyder 3:40 Writing and Executing 5:10 Variable Explorer 6:48 Python Help Function 7:48 Print Syntax 8:05 ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uzp-_nOyPRk