Quick overview

Let’s do a quick overview of basic Python features, which more broadly will also cover general programming themes. This overview will also cover, briefly, a few more advanced capabilities that are widely with scientific and engineering data.

Go to Quickstart: Zero to Python — Pythia Foundations. There, we will all click on the “Binder” link at the top (the rocket icon) to run the steps live, online! It will launch a Jupyter notebook on JupyterLab, online. So, this will serve also as an initial exposure to JupyterLab and Jupyter notebooks. This open-source overview is provided by Project Pythia, https://projectpythia.org.

I put a copy of that lesson (which is a Jupyter notebook) here, for reference: notebooks/projectpythia-quickstart.ipynb.

https://learnpython.org can nicely complement the Project Pythia Quickstart. It is a nice and compact introduction featuring online interactive coding, organized by Python feature.