Introduction to Python

Basic coding
• Python variables
• Testing conditions
• Printing and f-strings

Visual Studio Code
• Installing extension
• Configuring settings
• Useful short-cuts

Running and debugging
• The code runner extension
• Stepping through code
• Setting breakpoints

Ranges and loops
• WHILE loops
• Breaking out of loops
• Ranges of numbers

Working with modules
• Installing modules using PIP
• System modules (OS and SYS)
• Maths functions (MATH)

Sequences
• Tuples versus lists
• Iterating over sequences
• Slicing sequences
• Joining and splitting

Manipulating lists
• Adding/removing items
• Sorting lists
• Shallow and deep copies

Files and folders
• Reading and writing
• Using WITH
• Looping over lines
• Looping over folders using GLOB

Error handling (if time)
• The try clause
• Handling exceptions

Working with data types (if time)
• Manipulating strings
• Numbers and Booleans
• The DATETIME module