Sample code for Channel 9 Python for Beginners course

Getting started with Python

Overview

The series of videos on Channel 9 is designed to help get you up to speed on Python. If you’re a beginning developer who’s looking to add Python to your quiver of languages, or trying to get started on a data science or web project, these videos can help teach you the foundation necessary to walk through a quick start or other tutorial.

What you’ll learn

• The basics of Python
• Starting a project
• Common syntax
• Package management

What we don’t cover

• Class design and inheritance
• Asynchronous programming
• Basics of programming

Prerequisites

• An understanding of Git
• Light experience with another programming language, such as JavaScript

Next steps

As the goal of this course is to help get you up to speed on Python so you can work through a quick start, the next step after completing the videos is to follow a tutorial! Here’s a few of our favorites:

• Quickstart: Detect faces in an image using the Face REST API and Python
• Quickstart: Analyze a local image using the Computer Vision REST API and Python
• Quickstart: Using the Python REST API to call the Text Analytics Cognitive Service
• Tutorial: Build a Flask app with Azure Cognitive Services
• Flask tutorial in Visual Studio Code
• Django tutorial in Visual Studio Code

Contributing

This project welcomes contributions and suggestions. Most contributions require you to agree to a Contributor License Agreement (CLA) declaring that you have the right to, and actually do, grant us the rights to use your contribution. For details, visit https://cla.opensource.microsoft.com.

When you submit a pull request, a CLA bot will automatically determine whether you need to provide a CLA and decorate the PR appropriately (e.g., status check, comment). Simply follow the instructions provided by the bot. You will only need to do this once across all repos using our CLA.

This project has adopted the Microsoft Open Source Code of Conduct. For more information see the Code of Conduct FAQ or contact opencode@microsoft.com with any additional questions or comments.