Python is an easy language to start programming, you can write your first program in one line. Despite this, it is widely used both in writing simple scripts and in Big Data processing and Machine learning. In the first lesson, we'll start with the basics. We'll learn the language syntax and how to work with variables.

After learning the Python basics, we will move to the applied task of working with files, reading and processing data, and writing the data to disk.

Data familiar to a person is presented in the form of text, sound and images, but for a computer, such ways of presenting information are too complicated. However, there are methods that can be used to convert text, sound, and images into numeric datasets and make them easier to work with. In this lesson, we will analyze basic methods of working with data represented as numerical arrays. And as a bonus, we will consider examples of visualizing data in Python.