Beginning Python
Chapter One
Programming Basics
and Strings
This chapter is a gentle introduction to the practice of programming in Python. Python is a very
rich language with many features, so it is important to learn to walk before you learn to run.
Chapters 1 through 3 provide a basic introduction to common programming ideas, explained in
easily digestible paragraphs with simple examples.
If you are already an experienced programmer interested in Python, you may want to read this
chapter quickly and take note of the examples, but until Chapter 3 you will be reading material
with which you've probably already gained some familiarity in another language.
If you are a novice programmer, by the end of this chapter you will have learned some guiding
principles for programming, as well as directions for your first interactions with a programming
language-Python. The exercises at the end of the chapter provide hands-on experience with the
basic information that you'll have learned.
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