Learning Python (2018)

Get a quick intro to Python, the popular and highly readable object-oriented language. Joe Marini provides an overview of the installation process, basic Python syntax, and an example of how to construct and run a simple Python program. Learn to work with dates and times, read and write files, and retrieve and parse HTML, JSON, and XML data from the web.

Topics include:

• Installing Python
• Choosing an editor/IDE
• Working with variables and expressions
• Writing loops
• Using the date, time, and datetime classes
• Reading and writing files
• Fetching Internet data
• Parsing and processing HTML