Introduction to Python Programming
A Comprehensive Beginner's Technical Handbook
1. Overview of Python
Python is a high-level, interpreted, interactive and object-oriented scripting language. Python is
designed to be highly readable. It uses English keywords frequently where other languages use
punctuation, and it has fewer syntactical constructions than other languages.
2. Core Syntax & Variables
Variables are containers for storing data values. Unlike other programming languages, Python has no
command for declaring a variable. A variable is created the moment you first assign a value to it. String
variables can be declared either by using single or double quotes.
3. Control Flow Structures
Python supports the usual logical conditions from mathematics. These conditions can be used in
several ways, most commonly in 'if statements' and loops. Python relies on indentation (whitespace at
the beginning of a line) to define scope in the code.
4. Functions and Modules
A function is a block of code which only runs when it is called. You can pass data, known as
parameters, into a function. A function can return data as a result. In Python, a function is defined
using the def keyword.
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