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Python Programming for Beginners

Like Duolingo, but for Python Programming for Beginners. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.

For the part of you with thirty open tabs that never became anything.

54 bite-size levelsAbout 5 minutes each

Free during early access · No credit card · iPhone & Android

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Python Programming for Beginners
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54
Levels
4
Sections
5
Min/day
Why not just Google it

You've tried the other tabs

Wikipedia

Thirty open tabs. Four facts you actually kept.

YouTube

You watched. You nodded. By Sunday it was gone.

ChatGPT

One answer, then back to scrolling.

Online courses

Eight weeks. You meant to finish. You didn't.

Tomo turns Python Programming for Beginners into a game you actually finish. Levels, streaks, and quick quizzes that make it stick. Five minutes a day.

What you'll learn

Where Python Programming for Beginners takes you

Stop reading about code and start writing it. Build your first programs immediately and learn how to think like a developer to solve real-world problems.

  1. 1

    Build Your First Tools

    • Making Python Talk to You
    • Storing Information in Boxes
    • Doing Math with Code
    • Asking the User for Input
  2. 2

    Making Smart Decisions

    • True or False Logic
    • Teaching Your Code to Choose
    • Handling Multiple Options
    • Repeating Tasks with Loops
    • Stopping a Loop Early
    • Building a Simple Guessing Game
  3. 3

    Organizing Your Ideas

    • Creating Lists of Items
    • Finding and Changing List Data
    • Using Dictionaries for Labels
  4. 4

    Writing Clean and Powerful Code

    • Packaging Code into Functions
    • Passing Information to Functions
    • Getting Results Back
    • Using Other People's Code
    • Fixing Common Errors

4 sections · 18 units · 54 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.

Try a question

Here's what playing it feels like

A real question from this course. Take your best guess.

Speaking the Language of Output

If you want your program to display a greeting on the screen, which command should you use?

Get it right to open this lesson and 53 more in the app.

How it's taught

You pick the voice

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