Interactive Python lessons on Codecademy

The Codecademy programming school opened in August last year: during this time, millions of people have learned the basics of JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and jQuery. The project curators decided that the time had come to expand the training program from the frontend to the server part - and started the Python lessons .

Part 1: Python Syntax (16 exercises)

1. Variables and data types
2. Spaces and expressions
3. Comments
4. Mathematical actions
5. Testing (practical tasks)

Project: tip calculator (5 exercises)

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

Part 2: Strings and console output (16 exercises + project 6 exercises)
Part 3: Conditions and flow of teams (15 exercises + project 12 exercises)
Part 4: Functions (22 exercises + project 17 exercises)
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The developers explain that they chose the Python language for the new training course, because it was he who was the most popular among the users of the site. “Python is used by hundreds of thousands of developers worldwide. Many schools and courses use it as an initial programming language by virtue of a clear 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 from JavaScript lessons, ”the corporate Codecademy blog says.

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

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