Jupyter Notebook exercises for Python beginners
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These exercises for Python beginners are part of a guided lesson package for H2 Computing students, with a greater focus on picking up Python features quickly.
For exercises with a focus on programming methodology, see Programming in Python.
The exercises are provided here, sans guidance.
Lessons
The following topics are covered:
Basic
- Basic operators and data types
- Data manipulation
- Decision-making and branching; advanced formatting
- Lists; Iteration and looping
- Functions; File IO
- Standard libraries;
whileloops; files and directories; keyword arguments and default parameters
Advanced
dict;tuple;set- Recursion
- Advanced functions; program testing; handling errors
Algorithms
- Accumulator
- Ratchet
- Search (Linear and Binary)
- Tokenisation
- Greedy
- Hash Table