Programming with Python

Build Python Skills Through Short, Focused Lessons 🐍

This ebook gathers the author’s Programming with Python course into one digital volume. It starts with the essentials and steadily adds the tools needed to write useful programs, always using examples and comparisons with languages such as C to clarify how Python behaves.

From First Script to Core Language Concepts 💻

Early classes set up a development environment and walk through a first program. From there, the material covers variables and operations, functions, and Python’s core data structures. Tuples, lists, and dictionaries are introduced with examples that show how data can be organized and manipulated. Later lessons explore graphics and functional programming, giving a broader view of what Python can do.

A Complete Web Scraping Project for SEO

The second part of the ebook is a hands-on project. It shows how to read the content of a web page with urllib, collect internal links, handle accented characters, and extract metatag titles and descriptions. The project then moves into SEO analysis and gives student tasks that ask readers to find an <h1> tag, generate an HTML file for a browser, and rewrite the scraper using Beautiful Soup.

What You Will Work With

• Python setup: interpreter, IDLE, and Visual Studio options
• Language basics: comments, printing, variables, arithmetic, strings, and booleans
• Functions and data structures: reusable code, tuples, lists, and dictionaries
• Web scraping: urllib, internal links, encoding, metatags, and HTML output
• SEO tools: page analysis and practical coding tasks

Who This Ebook Suits

It is aimed at beginners and self-taught programmers who want a guided path rather than a dense reference. The lessons are short and sequential, making the ebook useful for readers who prefer to learn by typing code, running examples, and building a project as they go. If you already know another language, the comparisons to C may help you see where Python differs. If you are new to programming, the step-by-step classes give you a place to start.

A Practical Python Companion

Digital Delights offers this ebook as a focused, example-driven guide that connects foundational Python to a real web scraping and SEO task. It is a useful addition to a programmer’s digital shelf, especially for learners who want to move from basic syntax to a working project.