I have prior experience in Python but it's been a couple years since I last used it and I've forgotten most of it. I'm working through the book 'Learn Python the Hard Way' v3 by Zed Shaw. If you are interested in getting a copy feel free to shoot me a message and I can help you out!
This is the start of my post series on learning Python - if you have any suggestions, comments, or questions I would love to hear more! Also for this post I have used brief Image Descriptions and did not include the full program in the ID. If you want me to include the actual code in the ID please let me know and I will do that in the future under a line break so my posts don't eat up people's feeds.
[ID 1: Exercise 10 program in VSCode. It uses variables and Print() to print out different sentences to demonstrate different escape sequences /ID]
[ID 2: Output of Exercise 10. It is a list with cat food, fishies, catnip, and grass. /ID]
Exercise 10 is about learning different escape sequences. For example if you are defining your variable text string with "double quotes" and want to use double quotes within the text string you need to use an escape sequence so it doesn't think you are ending your variable early.
Another important thing with Escape Sequences is to make sure that you are using the \ backslash instead of / forward slash.
An important thing with the book is he gives you Study Drills on how to experiment and learn more on your own. I really like this book due to that, in addition to how copying the programs helps train your eye to pick up small errors. Let me tell you - the amount of time that I have spent confused as to why my program was broken and it turned out to be a missing character is a lot.
[ID 3: Exercise 11 in VSCode using Print() and Input() to get someone's age, height, and weight /ID]
[ID 4: Exercise 11 output saying I'm 23, 5'5, and 198 heavy /ID]
The Study Drill asks me to research Input() and to write another form to ask more questions. Researching Input I found that you not need to use Print statements - you can print the user input prompt directly inside the parenthesis of Input. I decided to write a form that would get your short, mid, and long term goals without using Print() statements to get user input.
[ID 5: A python program that uses Input() to get short, mid, and long term goals before printing them all together /ID]
[ID 6: The output of the above program. My long term career goal is to work in Cybersecurity, my mid term career goal is to go to college and get a degree in Computer Science, and my short term career goal is to get as many certificates as I can in my trade school /ID]
Exercise 12 introduces the concept that you can skip using Print statements and has you re-write Exercise 11 without using Print statements.
Anyway that's all that I worked on today! Hopefully you learned something.