Introduction to Python Scripting Course

A Cloud Guru’s Introduction to Python Scripting provides an introduction to the fundamentals of Python scripting including loops, conditionals, and functions. The course has a heavy emphasis on using the REPL to reverse engineer the instructor’s example code that I really appreciated.

My biggest takeaway from the course was its ASCII art lab. This lab challenges the student to write a series of nested loops to draw a symmetrical shape in ASCII art. Check out the code I wrote for this assignment here .

During this exercise, the instructor encourages the student to visualize how a loop will perform as they write their code. This assignment is very similar to one of the assignments in week 2 of Harvard University’s CS50 Introduction to Computer Science , and I found that working on one exercise reinforced the other. Check out my further progress in learning Python here and computer science here