What's this?

This is intended to be a collection of exercises, sample programs, and links to help programmers who know Java, C, C++, or some some similar language get started programming in Python.

Setting up

If you don't have Python installed already, try these brief installation instructions.

Sample programs

Read and experiment with these programs to learn some of the basics.

basics.py

Arithmetic, strings, conditionals, while loops, and boolean expressions.

lists.py

Lists and tuples.

files.py

File I/O, command-line arguments, and exceptions.

dictionaries.py

Dictionaries (a.k.a. associative arrays, hash tables, etc.).

functions.py

Functions.

classes.py

Classes.

listsorting.py

Sorting lists.

dictionarysorting.py

Sorting dictionaries.

directories.py

Directories.