# Python programming tutorial

[Python](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_\(programming_language\))
is a high-level, interactive and object-oriented programming language.
Its simple syntax makes it easy to learn and fast to work with, so it's
a great choice for a first programming language.

No tutorial is good for everyone. This one is aimed at people with no
programming experience at all or very little programming experience. If
you have programmed a lot in the past using some other language you
probably want to read
[the official tutorial](https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/) instead.

This tutorial was written in Python 3, and you need Python 3 or newer to
be able to run the example code yourself. Python 2 is getting outdated
all the time, and more and more projects are moving to Python 3. There
are a few popular libraries that don't support Python 3 that well at the
time of writing this, but you don't need to worry about that just yet.
They will probably support Python 3 by the time you've learned the
basics and you may actually need them.

I have tested most of the code in this tutorial on Python 3.4, but
everything should also work on Python 3.2 and all newer Pythons.

## List of contents

1. [What is programming?](what-is-programming.md)
2. [Installing Python](installing-python.md)
3. [Getting started with Python](getting-started.md)
4. [ThinkPython: The way of the program](the-way-of-the-program.md)
5. [Variables, Booleans and None](variables.md)
6. [Using functions](using-functions.md)
7. [If, else and elif](if.md)
8. [Handy stuff with strings](handy-stuff-strings.md)
9. [Lists and tuples](lists-and-tuples.md)
10. [Loops](loops.md)
11. [Trey Hunner: zip and enumerate](trey-hunner-zip-and-enumerate.md)
12. [Dictionaries](dicts.md)
13. [Defining functions](defining-functions.md)
14. [What is true?](what-is-true.md)
15. [Files](files.md)
16. [Exceptions](exceptions.md)
17. [Modules](modules.md)
18. [Classes](classes.md)

Other things this tutorial comes with:

- **Important:** [getting help](getting-help.md)
- [Contact me](contact-me.md)
- [Setting up a text editor](editor-setup.md)
- [Answers for the exercises](answers.md)
- [The TODO list](TODO.md)

I'm Akuli and I have written most of this tutorial, but the following
people have helped me with it:
- [SpiritualForest](https://github.com/SpiritualForest): Lots of typing
    error fixes.
- [theelous3](https://github.com/theelous3): Small improvements and fixes.

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You may use this tutorial at your own risk. See [LICENSE](LICENSE).