Interactive Python Lessons at Codecademy

    The Codecademy programming school opened last August: during this time, millions of people have learned the basics of JavaScript, HTML, CSS and jQuery. The curators of the project decided that it was time to expand the training program from the frontend to the server side - and launched Python lessons .

    Part 1: Python Syntax (16 exercises)
    1. Variables and Data Types
    2. Spaces and Expressions
    3. Comments
    4. Math actions
    5. Verification (practical tasks)
    Project: tip calculator (5 exercises)

    Lessons are held in the traditional interactive mode. The user reads instructions, enters commands into the terminal window - and immediately sees the reaction of the system.

    Part 2: Lines and console output (16 exercises + project of 6 exercises)
    Part 3: Conditions and flow of teams (15 exercises + project of 12 exercises)
    Part 4: Functions (22 exercises + project of 17 exercises)

    Developers explainthat you chose the Python language for the new training course, because it was he who was the most popular among site users. “Python is used by hundreds of thousands of developers around the world. Many schools and courses use it as an initial programming language due to the clean and intelligible syntax. Advanced developers use this language in companies such as Google and NASA. It is perfectly compatible on the server backend side with what many users learned in JavaScript lessons, ”the Codecademy corporate blog said.

    Since January, the Codecademy Labs project has been launched : an interactive tutorial and interpreter for Ruby and Python, which makes it possible to experiment with code even offline (you just have to wait for the module to load).

    In the future, Codecademy will also add courses in other programming languages.

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