Python for Entrepreneurs Transcripts
Chapter: Python language refresher
Lecture: Refresher Intro
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So what you are going to learn in this chapter about Python? Well, mostly it's really to give you enough Python to be able to follow along.
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For example, when we get to the credit cards section, when we integrate Stripe into our web app,
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we are going to talk about exception handling with "try...except" blocks.
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And, if you are not totally familiar with those, that might get a little confusing. So we are going to give you a really short introduction
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on exception handling and a bunch of other Python concepts like that. That said, if you know all these ideas, if you are already a Python programmer,
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don't feel bad about skipping this chapter, go ahead and skip the whole chapter,
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go on to the next one, and then you can come back and use this as a reference.
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This section will be broken into many small little videos, one core concept each. So, if you find we are working with some idea and you are like,
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Oh, I actually don't know this very well, just jump back to this chapter,
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find that core concept, watch the video and then continue on where you left off. That said, we are covering a lot of concepts in Python,
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but this is not an introductory course. If you really need to learn Python from scratch, and you want to do it in a solid way,
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I recommend that you take my Python Jumpstart By Building 10 Applications course, which you can find at talkpython.fm/jumpstart.
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So we cover about the same number of concepts in that course, as we do in this one,
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but that one covers it in seven hours, instead of however long - half an hour, an hour, whatever this section turns out to be.
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So, this chapter is a bit of a choose your own adventure, if you stay here, we are going to do a demo in the next section
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and we'll build a little game, to get you comfortable with the Python language and the editors, or skip this chapter and get right on to the next one.