Python

python for beginners

In this 2 day course you will learn the basics of Python and the tools needed for your first program.

Each student has access to a Raspberry Pi 5 with a monitor, keyboard and mouse. All required tools are pre-installed.

prerequisite for participation

The participant must meet the following conditions

  • Absolutely: of legal age, able to conclude contracts
  • Essential: Sufficient knowledge of English to follow the course and to be able to read English descriptions
  • Essential: Very good computer skills. Creating files and folders, renaming etc., using the command line
  • Advantageous: knowledge of Linux
  • Advantageous: Quick comprehension, strong desire to learn, analytical thinking

Price of the course

The price is not finalized yet but the price will be around 16’000 THB for the 2 day course.

Duration and Location

 The course lasts 2 days of 8 hours, 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 , 12:30 pm.  – 17:30 pm.

Possible locations could be
– Mahasarakham
– Pattaya
– Hua Hin

Tools we will discuss

Pyton interpreter

(every programmer should know the basics of the interpreter)

Jupyter Notebook

(a web application to execute and document Python sequences). For an example how we use this tool in our course click here.

Thonny IDE

(a well-known tool for creating Python programs, also for Raspberry Pico)

Elements of the Python programming language

data types and their collections

data types (only most common): integer, float, string, boolean
sequences, arrays: list, tuple, set
data structures (mapping type): dict (dictionary)

data manipulation

calculations, string manipulation, list handling, etc

programm structure

normal statements, controll statements, functions

Survey

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