PYTHON JUMPSTART COURSE Section 1 - Introduction, Lesson 1 - 3 - About This Course

Опубликовано: 19 Апрель 2025
на канале: Prospero Coder

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In this course we are going to learn Python 3. This is a course for beginners who have never learned Python or any other programming language. No prior knowledge is required. The course will guide you through all the steps of learning Python. In this course we’ll be learning just the basics of the language. This should get you started.

IMPORTANT: Some lessons are only in written form. I'll be adding all lessons to my blog at prosperocoder.com so make sure to check it out. They're going to be published there a couple days after I publish a new video lesson. For example lessons 2 and 3 are such lessons, that's why this lesson is published here as lesson 1-3 so that the numbers are all correct. The next video is going to be lesson 4, so make sure to read lesson 2 and 3 on my blog before.

In this course we’ll be using Python 3, so if you have any experience with Python 2, you should be aware that there are differences that make the two versions incompatible. This means code written in Python 2 in most cases won’t run in Python 3. So, if you have Python 2 installed, make sure to install Python 3 so that you can follow this course.

This course is available here on my blog and the video versions of the lessons are also available on my Prospero Coder YouTube channel, but don’t worry, you can watch them directly from here. Almost all lessons are available in both written and video form, there are just a few that are only available in written form.

There’s one more thing I need to say. I made this course in 2018, so I was using the version of Python that was available back then. This is why you’re not going to see the latest version of Python in this course. But this is not a big deal. As this is the beginner course, hardly anything has changed in the language itself since then and if there is something that has, I’ll let you know in due time. I didn’t update the course to the latest version of Python for two reasons. The first reason is what I just said, not much has changed as far as the very basics are concerned. The second reason is that I already have all the videos recorded and recording them again would be a huge waste of time because they would look practically the same.

Now, how to use this course? It’s advisable to follow along with the course. The pace is quite fast, so, if necessary, feel free to pause the video, think about what you just learned and watch the video again. Also, even if you prefer the video lessons, why not read the written versions as well. This will make the stuff stick in your head even more.