Beginner Lessons

Getting Started With Jupyter NotebooksDescription: This lesson introduces Jupyter notebooks and Python for absolute beginners. If you are completely new to text analysis, this is the place to start. Use Case: For Learners (Additional explanation, not ideal for researchers) Difficulty: Beginner Completion time: 15 minutes Knowledge Required: None Purpose: Learning

Description: This lesson describes operators, expressions, data types, variables, and basic functions. Complete this lesson if you are familiar with Jupyter notebooks or have completed Getting Started with Jupyter Notebooks, but do not have any experience with Python programming. This is part 1 of 3 in the series Python Basics

Description: This lesson describes the basics of flow control statements including: Boolean values Boolean operators Comparison operators if statements else statements elif statements while and for loop statements and the basics of writing functions: def statements Local scope Global scope This is part 2 of 3 in the series Python

Description: This lesson describes the basics of lists and dictionaries including: The in and not in operators Lists List methods (index(), append(), insert(), sort()) Dictionaries Dictionary methods (update(), keys(), values(), items(), get()) This is part 3 of 3 in the series Python Basics that will prepare you to do text