A Roadmap to Programming Concepts, using Python

Here are broken out the concepts of programming with Python; essentially a list of ideas, the order in which they might be learned and where the knowledge can be gained.

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"What mental model is necessary to understand programming?"

• what is an algorithm?
• that things happen in sequence
• and can loop
• but exceptions can be raised
• names are bound to values
• those values can be singles
• or collections like lists, tuples
• collections have subscripts, with ranges
• strings are actually collections
• mappings are interesting
• programs have a start and a stop
• they usually do some setup at the start
• they may report some status at the stop
• code can be carried around like a value
• grouping code with functions reduces complexity
• modules group code too
• classes and objects
• you have a choice of interpreters
  • cpython
  • ipython
  • vpython
  • ironpython
  • jython
  • stackless