Newbie Bite 01. Assigning Objects

Welcome to our Newbie Bites, it's time to learn the basics of Python! If you are new to our platform …

Newbie Bite 02. Basic Data Types

If you really think about it, there are multiple different types of data that you can play with when coding. …

Newbie Bite 03. Basic Printing

Before we dive too far into these objects, let's quickly look at how we print to the screen. Almost every …

Newbie Bite 04. Printing Objects

Excellent! We know things! Now that we have data assigned to objects and we know how to print, let's print …

Newbie Bite 05. Basic Maths

We're able to print integers. Now what? Yep, it's time for some maths! Wooo!

Newbie Bite 06. Additional Maths

Let's quickly cover off the rest of the math operators. We've had a look at addition so next we need …

Newbie Bite 07. User Input

Quite often as you make scripts and applications you're going to need to grab user input. One of the ways …

Newbie Bite 08. String Manipulation

There are times you'll need to manipulate the strings you've assigned to a variable. Case in point, when you're dealing …

Newbie Bite 09. Lists

Next up on our Python journey we're going to dive into what a list is in Python.

Newbie Bite 10. Returning items by list index

Lists are pretty awesome (both in Python and in real life, am I right?). They're also pretty fun to work …

Newbie Bite 11. Adding and Removing items from a list

Now that we have our list, what if we decide we want to change it after it's been defined/created?

Newbie Bite 12. Dicts

It's time to dive into the next data structure in Python: the Dictionary!

Newbie Bite 13. Dict data retrieval methods

Excellent! We know what a dict is and what it looks like! Now let's access the data stored inside?

Newbie Bite 14. Functions

Here we go, the big one. Functions! This is where things really start to get fun!

Newbie Bite 15. Functions part II

Functions can be kind of tricky to start off with so let's do a bit of practice.

Newbie Bite 16. Equals Operator

In this quick bite we'll teach out about the equals operator.

Newbie Bite 17. If / else

It's time to look at the amazing if statement! It's one of the most valuable bits of code in your …

Newbie Bite 18. Truthiness

One of the things we often need to check when we code is whether a condition is True or False. …

Newbie Bite 19. Less than and greater than

We'll now take a look at usage of the "less than" < and "greater than" > operators.

Newbie Bite 20. While loop

The next challenge is to learn all about the while loop. Let's dive right in.

Newbie Bite 21. Comments

Time to look at one of the more useful aspects of programming: Comments!

Newbie Bite 22. For loops

It's time to move on to a slightly more complex but brilliant loop: the for loop!

Newbie Bite 23. Looping through a dict

While we've explained how for loops work, it's worth diving into how we use them with dictionaries.

Newbie Bite 24. Tuples

One data type we've yet to cover is the tuple. It's a special one so here we go.

Newbie Bite 25. Calling a function

The last Bite! Let's actually use what we've created by learning how to actually call a function.