Programming
Python for Beginners: Write Your First Programs
Learn Python from scratch, the friendly way. Understand variables, text, numbers, decisions, loops, lists, dictionaries and functions, predict what code does in quick checks, then write real programs: a quiz game, a budget tracker and an automation script. With a certificate. Uses free online tools, no installation needed.
BEGINNER 285 min · 18 lessonsBy Career Forge
What you'll learn
- Run Python code and read its output
- Store information in variables and work with text and numbers
- Make decisions with if statements
- Repeat actions with loops
- Organise data with lists and dictionaries
- Write and reuse functions
- Handle simple errors and read files
- Build small programs that automate real tasks
Requirements
- A phone or computer with internet
- A free Google account to use Google Colab (colab.research.google.com), or Python installed
- No programming experience needed
Curriculum
Getting Started with Python
- 🖨️ Your first programPreview
- 🧠 Quick check: getting started
- 👋 Welcome to PythonPreview
Python Basics
- 🧠 Python basics checkpoint
- 🎮 Assignment 1: A number guessing game
- ➕ Numbers, text and input
- 🔀 Making decisions with if
- 📦 Variables and types
- 🔁 Loops
Organising Data and Reusing Code
- 💰 Assignment 2: A budget tracker
- 📋 Lists
- 🧰 Functions
- 🧠 Data and functions checkpoint
- 🗂️ Dictionaries
- 🛟 Errors and reading files
Final Exam: Build a Useful Program
- 🧰 Python cheat sheet
- 🎓 You did it! Certificate and what is next
- 🏁 FINAL EXAM: Build your own useful program