lamr 0.1.5

Python course for beginners fully free at your own command line.

lamr

Python course for beginners, on command line.

Rationale

For learning on the web you have freecodecamp or an online course of your choice, but what if you wanted to study and practice Python at your own computer and do it on the command line?

How to start

You should have a working installation of Python on your computer and a terminal, or console, open.

Install lamr:

pip install lamr

Check it works:

lamr --help

Code examples

lamr provides a collection of code examples, stored as plain text files. You can use lamr code and lamr run to see the code listing or run the files.

>>> lamr code --list
cal.py  Print today's date and a calendar for current month.
x.py    A Twitter clone (maybe).

>>> lamr run cal
Today is 2024-02-02

   February 2024
Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su
          1  2  3  4
 5  6  7  8  9 10 11
12 13 14 15 16 17 18
19 20 21 22 23 24 25
26 27 28 29

lamr code cal --no-comment will provide you a code listing:

"""Print today's date and a calendar for current month."""

from calendar import TextCalendar
from datetime import date

t = date.today()
print("Today is", t)
print()  # prints empty line
TextCalendar().prmonth(t.year, t.month)

You can also run lamr code cal for code with comments, excercises and references.

The manual

lamr learn is a small Python textbook aimed at beginners. It is organaized by topic such as string or variables.

>>> lamr learn --list
# prints available topics to study

>>> lamr learn variables
# prints beginner-friendly reader about variables

Development

Check out separate Development section:

>>> lamr about --dev