products by Ana Bell
Think Computationally with Five Small Python Projects
In this series of liveProjects, you’ll kick off your Python programming portfolio by creating five separate and fully-functional projects. Each project is focused on a different usage of Python, and designed to test and grow your skills in these valuable areas. These challenges will familiarize you with important Python tools, techniques, and libraries.
How to Think about Manipulating Data
In this quick liveProject, you’ll use the pandas library to read a table from a Wikipedia page into a DataFrame, clean and arrange the data into columns, and extract useful information quickly to reveal data insights.
How to Think about Scheduling Tasks
In this quick liveProject, you’ll develop a simple task scheduler app. Your challenges will include coding functionality that will arrange a day’s tasks to either minimize time left over during a day, or to provide the greatest variety of tasks during a day.
How to Think about Simulating Nature
In this quick liveProject, you’ll write a UI that simulates water drops on a window during rain. You’ll use nested lists, the random library, and tkinter to increase droplet size with certain probability, and resetting sizes when drops become too big.
How to Think about Automating Email
In this quick liveProject, you’ll automate the process of filling out a custom email from a CSV of email addresses and exam scores. You’ll then implement a randomizer to assign a random discussion partner, all using a Python library of your choice.
How to Think about Solving a Maze
In this quick liveProject, you’ll design and implement an algorithm to solve a simple maze, revealing a path to the exit.
Get Programming with Python in Motion
See it. Do it. Learn it! This amazing liveVideo course takes you on your first steps in the exciting world of computer programming! Packed with hands-on exercises, fun projects, and explanations that make programming a breeze to pick up, you’re sure to get programming when you’re done.
Don’t know anything about programming? No problem! This liveVideo course is designed for people who have never written a line of computer code. Using Python, a language designed for teaching and learning how to program, you’ll learn key skills that every coder needs. First, your instructor Ana Bell guides you through installing Python onto your computer. Then, you’ll work through a few super-easy (and fun!) examples that teach you about how Python looks and works.
After you get started, you’ll learn how to build programs that can automatically repeat actions and make decisions based on the conditions YOU set. You’ll get experience with the process of program writing, and learn to combine different pieces of code so that they can work together. Finishing everything off, you’ll learn ways to make your code more readable and easier to maintain in the future.
This liveVideo course works perfectly alongside Ana’s book Get Programming: Learn to code with Python, each building on the other to give you a complete tour of this great language!
Get Programming
Get Programming: Learn to code with Python teaches you the basics of computer programming using the Python language. In this exercise-driven book, you'll be doing something on nearly every page as you work through 38 compact lessons and 7 engaging capstone projects. By exploring the crystal-clear illustrations, exercises that check your understanding as you go, and tips for what to try next, you'll start thinking like a programmer in no time.
