The intention here is to teach the basics of python programming language in a beginner friendly way. So, by no means will these tutorials be comprehensive. But I do hope these basics will help readers understand the fact that we want to use python as a tool for machine learning and not as a programming language.

Contents

Data Types

• Integer: 1, 2, 10
• Decimal numbers: float: 1.0, 2.1, 10.5
• Boolean: True, False
• Nonetype: Null values
• String: "It is some character sequence"

Typecast

• Implicit type casting
• Explicit type casting

Operators

• Arithmetic
• Assignment
• Comparison
• Logical
• Identity
• Membership
• Bitwise

Data Structures

• Lists
• Tuples
• Dictionaries
• Set
• Chained Sequences: lists, tuples, chained dictionaries
• Indexing

Conditional statements

• Code block
• if
• if else
• if elif else

Loops