This course will help you on your journey to creating your own custom software. Python is designed to be easy to read and learn, but also has many powerful features and is widely used in science and industry.

I teach by example, so we will learn both theory and get hands on with lab work. First we will learn to use a terminal shell and text editor to launch our applications from the command line.  

Next we will learn how to use an integrated development environment (IDE) and venv, which is the builtin Python virtualization module.

Python is different from other programming languages, it can also be used interactively with IPython.  I will briefly cover how to use it from a command line, then we will use browser based Jupyter notebooks which are my favorite way to create applications.

After our environments are setup, we will move straight into the core components of the language itself.

Python object types are covered, we will learn how to manipulate different data types. We will briefly cover errors, exception handling and annotations. 

For the rest of the sessions we will learn to write functions which are the core component of most applications.

At the end of our session, we will explore some next steps such as self guided books or online training to match your learning objective.