Intro to Python Livestream - Python Basics with Sam

Learn the basics of Python live from Sam Focht every Tuesday. This is part of a series that will cover the entire Python Programming language.

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[AbhijeetKumar-pktg]

25:07 header and body
25:53 indent= start (a line of text) or position (a block of text) further from the margin than the main part of the text
32:45 mutable means it can be changed
50:36 slicing and indexing
52:00 ''' ''' three quotation marks

[MillionZAR]

Honestly..this is the best pyton lesson ever..im so great full

[maxfrischdev]

I'm only watching this now 2 years later, but THANKS Sam for this great first session and I am positively surprised about the good interaction in the chat! Nice to see 🙂

[piazapetit]

I learnt more from this explanation than in university, I wonder how many guys will be made to get to advanced level since this was referenced as beginners

[keithdennis]

Thank you, Sam, for starting this course! Sorry that I missed the live feed. If you can teach this dinosaur Python, I'll be so grateful. Anyway, I've just signed up for a Coursera course at the University of Michigan taught be a Dr. Charles Severance. I hope learn from both of you!

[remiland]

I'm starting my journey with python and I am very grateful for such detailed videos about basic stuff for complete beginners like myself. THANK YOU!!!

[bettywhite]

Thanks Sam! I'm going for my Master's in Data Science and Python is so NEW for me. I so appreciate these videos. Thank you again.

[AbhijeetKumar-pktg]

40:36 stop is exclusive
43:18 len(gth)
46:05 exponents
46:45 floor division
54:50 palindrome
keywords are orange
1:17:03 print() gives one line gap
1:37:17 else if is written as elif
function is written as def
## is used for commenting
1:48:11 doubt
1:49:41 those 4 and 5 are inputs

[salladosman]

name = 'OM'
name[1:]
m = "PA"
for i in m:
print(i + name[1:])
output:
PM
AM

[tjoleary]

In all the Python courses I've taken thus far....I find it curious that help(name) and dir(name) have literally never been mentioned before.
These would have been immensely helpful!

[ogbuzzy]

Thank you do much for these videos, very helpful in trying to learn coding while:
working_full_time,
Lol thanks yall!

[fet]

22:58
REPL
1) Read, 2) Evaluate, 3) Print, and 4) Loop
there are two types of loop in python: 1) for loop, 2) while loop

[onenzednine]

43:58 just to make it more clear, for the "num in range" - num again is creating a variable to copy the current index- as it goes through the "for" loop. the 5 set the range to 5 indexes - so it doesn't stop to exclude anything it stopped because 0 1 2 3 4 was all the indexes- 5 of them. hope that helped someone.

[thejesterofwoe]

Dope! Thank you so much I did very minimal coding in the past but an in depth tutorial is like a Godsend

[pope]

I am 48 and just learning. Doing a 2year course in computer science in september, its never to late. 36 thats young

[homoshomos]

Thank you, you give us hope and make us motivated. Thank you from Egypt

[fet]

32:21
Containers: list( )
>List< is one of the basic >containers<.

[ujjwalanand]

This course is really very good for a new guy who wants to learn python.

[fet]

32:34
list( ) is 1) iterable, 2) mutable (== can be changed)

[bobbytables]

One quibble about this first lesson - you don't really explain the way a for loop iterates. It's not hard to figure out, but people who are completely new to programming might be confused about the nesting levels. For example around 1:55:00 where you bring the print() out of the col loop into the row loop.