Ultimate Python study guide

Ultimate Python study guide, influenced by ultimate-go.

Goals

Here are the primary goals of creating this guide:

Serve as a resource for Python newcomers who prefer to learn hands-on. This repository has a collection of standalone modules which can be run in an IDE or a terminal. Most lines have carefully crafted comments which guide a reader through what the programs are doing step-by-step.

Serve as a pure guide for those who want to revisit core Python concepts. Only builtin libraries are leveraged so that these concepts can be conveyed without the overhead of domain-specific concepts. As such, popular open-source libraries and frameworks (i.e. sqlalchemy, requests, pandas) are not installed.

Table of contents

• Language Mechanics
  • Variable: Built-in literals
  • Expression: Numeric operations
  • Conditional: if | if-else | if-elif-else
  • Loop: for-loop | while-loop
  • Function: def | lambda

Additional resources

As you start applying Python fundamentals to the real world, read over best practices and examples from other well-regarded resources.

Here are some repositories to get started with:

• TheAlgorithms/Python
• faif/python-patterns
• geekcomputers/Python